Culture and art

A story from the collection “How to Write a Detective Story.”

A.V. Lunacharsky’s review of the story “Confession” by M. Gorky published in the 23rd collection of “Knowledge”

“In our time there is hardly a reader - much less a critic - who would measure the merit of a work by its length. No one doubts that the old French saying: “...

“The “Historical Tragedy” “Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice” was conceived by Byron in 1817, when he, arriving in Venice, first saw the council chamber in the ...

“The character of positive unity, in contrast to negative or what Hegel called bad infinity, belongs to everything that is absolute or should be thought of a...

From the Life of Shakespeare, inserted by M. Guizot in his translation of the works of the British Poet.

Ernest Hemingway was famous in his homeland in America, famous in Europe, but only in the Soviet Union did he become a teacher and prophet - his famous photo...

...Not a day goes by that I don't remember my brother. And no matter what happens in my life, I will never forget his fantastic stories and what he taught me...

Review of the literary landscape of St. Petersburg science fiction by the mid-1990s.

Report by A. M. Stolyarov at Interpresscon-94 on the situation in Russian science fiction by the mid-1990s and on the future of Russian science fiction liter...

Impressions from Oksana Vasyakina's novel "Steppe". The detailed contemplative auto-fiction "Steppes" turns out to be an excellent meditative environment for...

In 2012, Mikhail Gutseriev became the winner of the popular television competition “Song of the Year” as the author of poems for three hits: Stas Mikhailov’s...