Ardis. American dream of Russian literature. Uskov N.F.

In 1971, the couple of American Slavists Karl and Ellende Profferra founded the publishing house "Ardis". Joseph Brodsky later compared their work with the coup that Gutenberg once committed. The Russian culture owes a modest publishing house to very many: the restoration of the interrupted connection with the silver age, and the salvation of oblivion of the hushed-up literature of the 1920-1930s, and the publication of relevant writers prohibited in the USSR. In fact, “Ardis” - in contrast to the Soviet literary canon - created another history of Russian literature of the twentieth century, the traditions of which we still follow. In such detail, on the basis of rare archival documents and numerous interviews, the history of a unique publishing project is told for the first time.

The author of the book is Nikolai Uskov, candidate of historical sciences, historian and journalist, since 2016 editor -in -chief, then editorial director of Forbes.