Night Patrol and Other Stories"We live in a fantastic reality," Mikhail Kuraev writes. "Life itself, the turns of history, peoples fates are unlikely, amazing and fantastic." This is the strange reality, the fantastic world of Russia before glasnost, that comes to life in Kuraevs remarkable short stories and novellas. Celebrated as one of the true innovators to emerge in recent years, Kuraev mines the rich literary tradition and the deep and not so distant past of his native