History

Pop singer Sandra, familiar to our readers from Xaviera Hollander’s novel “Osiris,” brings the stolen “golden phallus” of the ancient Egyptian god of fertili...

"If we look at Russian life at the beginning of the century, we will discover a lot of surprising and incomprehensible things. There were more than a dozen p...

Juri Tuulik's story from the Literary Estonia website (http://www.veneportaal.ee/le/proza/Tuulik.htm)

Publication from the now defunct site http://www.abi-1.com/, a copy of which is currently in the web archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090525191937/http:...

The book by former foreign intelligence officer, KGB Colonel Vladimir Peschersky, recreates the history of the unique intelligence network created on the ter...

The author of the book was the commander of the French armies during the imperialist war, which repelled the German offensive on Verdun in 1916 - this most i...

In the first decade of the 17th century, there lived in Paris a certain apprentice who happened to quarrel with his rival over his intended bride. The quarre...

The famous Austrian writer Stefan Zweig is considered the founder of the genre of artistic biographies. For more than ten years he worked on a series called ...

We will tell here about the madness of one very strange man who lived in the middle of the 16th century and imagined himself to be the king of France...

Dexter Cross is not at all the person he claims to be. Pretending to be the only heir to a wealthy family, he leads a double life until his girlfriend accide...

Nikolai Yakovlevich Shagurin was born in 1963 in Kharkov. His first stories were published in the magazine “Around the World” in 1930. Working in the press a...

The author has twenty years of experience as a sailor from cadet to captain, more than seventy countries of the world, seas and oceans. “Full Speed Ahead” is...