Boris Bedny: The Girls

Boris Vasilyevich Bedny was a Soviet writer, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, and a professor at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, where he led seminars for the Higher Literary Courses (his students included many renowned writers, such as Chingiz Aitmatov). Boris Bedny achieved fame with his novella "The Girls," which was translated into fifteen foreign languages and served as the basis for the film of the same name. Everyone in Russia is familiar with the 1961 film "The Girls," directed by Yuri Chulyukin and starring Nadezhda Rumyantseva. The lighthearted comedy about love in a remote Ural logging camp not only won over audiences across the Soviet Union but also received several prestigious awards at international film festivals. However, the novella "The Girls" differs from the famous film in many ways: the characters are more deeply developed, the harsh life in the remote settlement is depicted much more realistically, and there are even significant differences in the plot. This edition, which includes not only the novella "The Girls" but also Boris Bedny's best short stories, will be a true gift not only for fans of the film but for all lovers of fine Russian prose.

Author: Boris Bedny

Pages: 512 (newsprint). Paperback

Dimensions: 180x115x21 mm

Series: Azbooka-Classics