Culture and art

In this preface to the 23rd volume of the Collected Works of Jules Verne, the author talks about the history of the creation by Jules Verne of a large popula...

“There is an opinion - I have had to listen to it more than once from interested people - that the editorial offices of magazines do not read manuscripts of ...

“Dostoevsky directs his attention to the broad general foundations of social life, one way or another, but constantly connecting them with “eternal” question...

“But Messrs. Gorky and Chekhov cannot be bypassed or replaced by anyone, and not only because of their significance, but also because of the general conclusi...

“L. M. Lopatin is mistaken in his assumption that I was “excited” by his critical articles about my book. I might be agitated by some unacceptable personal a...

“...More than anyone else, he freed himself from Gogol’s one-sided belittlement of life, I say after all, he is Leo Tolstoy - and grew first to the military ...

Review of the Alexandria Theater’s performance of Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus at Colonus.”

“In the formation of civil societies, as in any historical process, a certain sediment is inevitable, in which units that stand out from the general forms of...