Biographies and memoirs

Ivan the Terrible is perhaps one of the most controversial and odious personalities in Russian history. A talented statesman, a wise reformer and... a bloody...

“Grief is the touchstone of the human soul and an unfailing measure of a person’s moral strength. Under the burden of the same sorrow one falls, another does...

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam ...

‘Human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever’s freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello. Then it ain't the unknown anymore and it ain't scary....

Every month a new chapter from the book by historian Ilya Venyavkin “The Master’s Inkwell: A Soviet Writer Inside the Great Terror” was published on Arzamas....

“And he suddenly - immediately and completely - realized that he would never be released from prison. And what’s worse is that when he’s free, no one needs h...

F. G. Ranevskaya lived a long time - 88 years. An actress who can replace the entire troupe; a philosopher with a cigarette, a scandalous person, a sarcastic...

“Long before the implementation of this or that idea that carries radical social changes, long before its implementation in life, at first vaguely, then more...

Stories of an Indian chief named Mato Nazhin (Luther Standing Bear)

A book for those interested in ethnography. Translation by Anna Shepeleva.

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The African is a short autobiographical account of a pivotal moment in Nobel-Prize-winning author J. M. G. Le Cl zio's childhood. In 1948, young Le Clezio...