Hope, Faith, Love - the Road to God

Vladimir Mikhanovsky is a well-known Russian writer and poet. He is an author of documentary novels, books of poetry, books about the history of aviation and military aviation, over a hundred books of adventure and mystery, as well as scripts for stage and screen. He lives in Moscow. His books earned many awards in the former USSR and Russia, as well as abroad. He got awarded the Italian International Award in Literature for his poem ¿Michelangelo¿, which was translated to Italian and included into Italian college textbooks in 1986. For his science fiction novels about space exploration, the International Federation of Cosmos awarded him several medals: the S.P. Korolev, K. E. Tsiolkovsky, and Y.A. Gagarin medals (1979, 1983, 1985). Vladimir Mikhanovsky is the author of numerous books in the area of fiction and mystery, which were widely published in Russia as well as abroad. Selected works were translated and published in English and in French. His science fiction book, ¿The Doubles,¿ which was twice published in English (1981 and 1987) produced keen interest in the English speaking world. It featured four dynamic and unusual science fiction stories of culture, science, discovery, progress and the human condition. His recent book, ¿Hope, Faith, Love ¿ the Road to God¿ about the advent of H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi and the great spiritual teachers [Moses, Buddha, the Prophet Muhammed, Christ] was published in Russian in 1999 and received much appreciation among Russians. It won literature award (Konstantin Simonov Gold Medal) of the Russian Union of Writers in 2000. The present English edition of ¿Hope, Faith, Love ¿ the Road to God¿ is a translation of the majority of the poems from the Russian edition. It also includes translations of his new poems about Buddha, the Prophet Muhammed, Guru Nanak, and Sai Baba of Shirdi, which the author wrote in 2000. Vladimir Mikhanovsky was born in Kharkov, Ukraine in 1931. He studied at University of Kharkov, majoring in Physics and Mathematics, and later worked as a professor in the Kharkov Institute of Aviation, and then at the University of Kharkov, teaching Physics and Higher Mathematics. In 1969 he completed studies in literature at the Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. He is a member of Russian Union of Writers since 1963. He is also a member and a Honorary Academician of International Academy of Energy-Informational Sciences.Mikhanovsky, Vladimir is the author of 'Hope, Faith, Love - the Road to God', published 2006 under ISBN 9781427609847 and ISBN 1427609845.