Biographies and memoirs

One of the founders of the “synthetic theory of evolution” F.G. Dobzhansky was a believer all his life, but a special one, who revised and posed the previous...

“Brother” (1932), “Garbage” (1933), “The Last Day of the Corps Captain” (1934) - three stories by the then young writer Vladimir Stepanovich Beletsky (pseudo...

This is about those very feelings when you don’t yet know what’s next, but you experience incredible excitement, balancing on the edge. Warm summer story abo...

The life story of the Russian commander, hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, cavalry general Nikolai Raevsky. During his thirty years of service, he participa...

Military essay

Under the heading “Non fiction” the memoirs and reflections of Oleg Chukhontsev “Towards Slutsky” are published. Subtitle: “Eight Donated Books.”

A well-known literary critic from Smolensk comments on his correspondence with academician Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov.

T. G. Shevchenko (1814–1861) is a great Ukrainian poet, a talented prose writer and playwright, an outstanding artist, in whose works an entire era of our hi...

I will not be mistaken if I say that almost every family in Russia suffered from the Stalinist regime. When I was three months old, my father was arrested an...

The work of Rasul Gamzatov is a source of wisdom and a moral guideline not only for his contemporaries, but also for many future generations. The book contai...

One and a half thousand years ago, an ascetic was born who was destined to revolutionize the spiritual life of Europe and whose name is reverently revered in...