Culture and art

“The arena where modern wrestlers meet is becoming more substantial and real from hour to hour. The internal struggle spills out everywhere. Individualism is...

“In our time, the question of the existence of theaters maintained at the expense of the state is again being raised. I believe that state theaters should ex...

“We Russians are quite often and in some respects correctly compared to the Italians. One smart German, a cultural historian of the last century, says about ...

The General Director of Channel One talks about the Russian opposition, fair elections, “flights” in the Kremlin, Parfenov, Berezovsky, who ordered the murde...

The problem of authorship of the novel “Quiet Don” is not an easy problem. And the first question that needs to be answered is whether the assertion that thi...

This article is unlikely to put an end to the numerous debates about the use of modern music in modern churches. The author has no illusions that everyone wh...

The artist, writer and philosopher Maxim Kantor in his article was puzzled by the problem: why have heroes completely disappeared from modern literature, esp...

This book will allow beginning writers to save a couple of years on gaining experience and will help them avoid making basic mistakes on the path to becoming...

“In June 1849, Prince P. A. Vyazemsky, from his village of Ostafyeva near Moscow, undertook a trip to the East. He lived for several months in Constantinople...