| Author | Robert Chandler |
| Editor | Robert Chandler |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
| Publisher Series | Penguin Classics |
| Cover Artist | Дмитрий Исидорович Митрохин |
| Cover photo | British Library |
| Introduction by | Joanne Turnbull |
| Typeset by | Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd |
| Printed by | Clays Ltd |
| Contributor | Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolay Leskov, Anton Chekhov, Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal, Ivan Bunin, Teffi, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Вера Михайловна Инбер, Mikhail Bulgakov, Исаак Эммануилович Бабель, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Леонид Иванович Добычин, Andrei Platonov, Daniil Kharms, Varlam Shalamov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Василий Макарович Шукшин, Асар Эппель, Sergei Dovlatov, Yury Buida |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London; New York; Toronto; Dublin; New Delhi; Camberwell; Auckland; Johannesburg |
| Copyright | 2005 |
| Pages / Font | 396 pages / 9.25/11 pt PostScript Adobe Sabon |
| Price | U.K. £10.99 CAN. $18.50 U.S.A. $17.00 |
| ISBN | 978-0-14-044846-7 |
| Barcode | 9 780140 448467 |
| Printer's Key | 4 |
| ISBN 10 | 0-140-44846-2 |
