The book [Nisenitnitsa, or 500 Years of Russian Absurdity] is a large-scale collection of folk tales, “tall stories”, “nonsense rhymes”, and authorial texts united by an interest in the phenomenon of absurdity in Russian culture.
Published with the support of the V–A–C Foundation, it offers a rare, reflective look at the tradition of the illogical, the humorous, and the poetic.
Editors
Daniil Beltsov
Sofia Komarova
Design
Kirill Gorbunov
Illustrations
Oleg Kuznetsov