History

Elias was a poor fisherman in Helgeland and lived on a secluded island. One day he threw a harpoon at a difficult seal...

Yes, the Prince of Denmark was right: there really are many things in the world that the sages never dreamed of, but writers, poets, and artists dream of the...

He fell in love again thirty years later - for the first time since he got married. He fell in love with a young actress, got divorced, entered into a new ma...

The book is based on a collection of journalistic articles, united under the title “The Dictatorship of the Layer,” which was published in the Argentine capi...

When, during the Albigensian Wars, before the storming of the castle of Béziers, the papal legate Arnold-Almaric was asked how to distinguish Catholics from ...

What if a young black rapper, drug addict and swearer, from the Bronx of our day ends up in the 19th century, on a slave-owning plantation, at the mercy of a...

USA, late 19th century. A traveling circus troupe tours the prairies of the Midwest, picking up and nursing those who have become outcasts in their community...

A short story about a loser who saw Stalin and changed the course of the Great Patriotic War.

Ippolit Kalinkin is a former swindler. Now he has chosen a new profession for himself - a private detective. One day, Ippolit Kalinkin is asked to investigat...

Alexander Sytin worked for more than 10 years at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISI), one of the analytical centers of the Foreign Intelligenc...

A taxi has arrived to pick you up. A familiar situation. But what was it like in ancient times, when people still stood in line at taxi stands under a round ...

A story from the series “Tales from the Radio Room” about the everyday life of merchant marine sailors. How to clean technical alcohol if contacts have alrea...