Culture and art

Why do we watch horror films? How does fear work? What makes us watch horror films? How to watch a movie about nightmares? Just four essential elements that ...

An essay written by Venedikt Erofeev on June 1, 1961 upon admission to the correspondence department of the philological department of the Vladimir State Ped...

"The Catcher in the Rye" is a novel that is always on everyone's lips. But is it deservedly popular? What do the censors see in this book and why are they wr...

The Moroccan cycle is one of the brightest pages in the work of the wonderful Russian artist Zinaida Serebryakova. A riot of colors, the joy of being, spicy ...

The book is dedicated to Soviet avant-garde photography of the 1920s–1930s, which is considered in the context of the transformation of modernism and the for...

Afterword and translator’s comments to the new translation of R. Kipling’s fairy tales, published in 2013 by the Octopus publishing house under the title “Fa...

Meet the author of this book - Raisa Kirsanova. When she was a girl, she loved to wear her grandmother's old coat and dress herself in all sorts of strange o...

Fairytale play for children

“...Of course, the texts presented in the collection contain a number of common features: youth, sunshine, irresponsible dashing actions, ease, getting away ...

In the “Other Poetry” section - “Canto XXXYI” by the classic of American and European modernism by Ezra Pound (1885–1972). Translation from English, introduc...

Among all Russian landscape painters, Shishkin undoubtedly belongs to the place of the most powerful. There are few artists whose work has received such wide...