Culture and art

I am a former cinematographer, but I worked not in feature films, but in popular science cinema. Now I am 84 years old. Somewhere far away life is in full sw...

“I feel in advance (and everyone who writes today probably feels this too) that the reader will most of all look for teachings, instructions, and sermons in ...

Some conversations with viewers about modern art and the “avant-gardists” of the beginning of the last century are described.

I just took a break from painting to think. In the process of work, you have to trust what comes to mind. In this case, thinking took a lot of time. And the ...

Stephen King wrote his essay on gun violence in America with the goal of sparking public debate. In this essay, King expressed his anger and grief after the ...

A story about something deeply personal and a little indecent. An incident from the author's life with obvious elements of joy. There is a photo report.

The author's very first article, his first journalistic experience. Analytical essay written in Western Siberia in 2006. The article was published in the new...

“The concepts that feed and guide our modern journalism are so confused and full of contradictions that the most elementary questions, such as: do we need li...

“For a good audiobook, the main thing is not the ability to “rumble sweetly in the lower register,” and not the ability to speak in different voices, but the...

The afterword to volume 27 of the collected works of Jules Verne tells about the history of the creation of three novels that were not published during the a...

The afterword to the 28th volume of the collected works of Jules Verne tells about the history of the author’s two late novels included in this volume, which...

New Year's song with accompaniment for solo or choral performance at New Year's celebrations in kindergarten or school