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The Tale of the Golden Cockerel: A Verse Retelling of Alexander Pushkin’s Fairy Tale (Pushkin’s Fairy Tales Reimagined)

What if a classic Alexander Pushkin fairy tale didn’t feel like homework, but like a dark, musical bedtime story?The Tale of the Golden Cockerel is a bilingual Russian–English picture book in verse that reimagines Pushkin’s famous story for modern readers while keeping its sharp, fairy-tale edge.An aging king is tired of war and afraid of...

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The Tale of the Fisherman and the Golden Fish:

A Verse Retelling of Alexander Pushkin’s Fairy Tale (with the Original Russian Text Inside) (Pushkin’s Fairy Tales Reimagined)

What if a classic Alexander Pushkin fairy tale in English didn’t feel like homework, but like a story told by a friend in flowing verse?

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Golden Fish is a bilingual Russian-English storybook that brings Pushkin’s beloved fairy tale to life for modern readers. This verse retelling keeps the spirit and shape of the...

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The Infinite Faces of Love

As Long as I Breathe—I Love: A modern cycle of long love poems—lyrical, intimate, resilient. Six pieces have companion songs.
From the series: The Infinite Faces of Love

Imagine love not as a rose in a garden, but as a maze of thousands of faces, where every glance leaves a scar, and every sigh whispers “I love.” “The Infinite Faces of Love: as long as I Breathe, I Love” is an epic of long poems for those who have experienced passion and loss. From the first spark (“We met each other face to face” — chapter I),...

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March 22, 2026

Where candlelight meets ruin — Opium Dreams. Cover revealed. A reimagined take on Silver Age poetry. Coming soon.

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December 20, 2025

New: my second retelling of Pushkin
"THE TALE OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL" is a tale in verse about a tired king, a magical bird and a broken promise.
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November 21, 2025

THE TALE OF THE FISHERMAN AND THE GOLDEN FISH

A bilingual Russian–English retelling in verse

Retelling of A. Pushkin's famous fairy tale in English...

November 6, 2025

my new song for the new, second collection of poems "Different masks of a woman's fate"

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