Mario Alessandro Curletto

Author of a booklet on Spartak Moscow; described in the review as a university lecturer in Russian Language and Culture who reconstructs the club's origins and the story of Nikolai Starostin.

Mario Alessandro Curletto reconstructs the origins and history of Spartak Moscow in a short booklet, focusing on Nikolai Starostin and the club's roots in Presnja. The review situates Spartak within the broader importance of football in the USSR and recounts Starostin's persecution under Stalin and Beria. The book is described as concise (about 150 pages) and historically attentive. The reviewer gives the work a 3/5 rating.

For:Readers interested in Soviet football history, Spartak Moscow fans, sports history enthusiasts