Biographies and memoirs

From the book Diaspora: New materials. Issue V. “A DEEP BOW TO LOYAL FRIENDSHIP.” Letters from Georgy Adamovich to Irina Odoevtseva (1958-1965). pp. 558-608<...

The master of the adventure genre, Alistair MacLean, presents for your consideration a historical story about the life and travels of the most revered naviga...

Essays. Travel notes. Memories. Interview.

Yachmenikhin Konstantin Mikhailovich - Candidate of Historical Sciences (Chernigov Pedagogical Institute named after T. G. Shevchenko). The article was writt...

Vovina Varvara Gelievna - Candidate of Historical Sciences, Leningrad Branch of the Institute of History of the USSR, USSR Academy of Sciences. The article w...

Autobiography of the Egyptian Mamluk Rustam, bodyguard of Emperor Napoleon.

Erich Fromm is the greatest thinker of the 20th century, one of the great cohort of “philosophers from psychology” and the spiritual leader of the Frankfurt ...

A story about the summer of 1965, vacations in the village visiting aunts, trips to the market, tours of the provincial theater.

Memories of an implausible but true incident that occurred on a frosty day in a forest near Moscow.

About the 1966 earthquake in Tashkent. How it was and how the usual life changed through the eyes of a young girl.

Was your childhood happy? This is true for the main character, because it was in his early school years that Pokemon appeared, and the Lord of the Rings and ...

“P. V. Annenkov’s memories of Gogol are unique. This is both a memoir and at the same time a detailed critical essay, covering Gogol’s ideological and creati...