AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON—Mikhail Sholokhov—Knopf ($3). What the late great Tolstoy’s War and Peace did for old Russia, And Quiet Flows the Don attempts for new. Not nearly as long (755 pp.) as ...

This is the eighth in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. Between Volgograd and Crimea, I decided to break my journey in Novocherkassk ...

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This is the ninth in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. While biking around Novocherkassk, it’s near Rostov and was once the capital ...