Biographies and memoirs

The hypothesis that I would like to share with the reader here may seem unlikely - and not because a poem by an almost unknown and inexperienced author is in...

Countless and sometimes elusive threads connected Lermontov’s work with Pushkin’s legacy. At one time, these connections were defined in one word: “influence...

The plot with which we will occupy the reader’s attention goes back chronologically to the mid-20s of the 19th century, when there was still no talk of Lermo...

The history of Lermontov's "Demon", banned from publication during the poet's lifetime and published for the first time abroad in 1856, has been studied for ...

This manuscript is the last thing that the long-time author and good friend of our magazine, Mark Lazarevich Gallai, worked on. A few days after he put an en...

The book by Lieutenant General Hans Speidel is an eyewitness account of what happened at the headquarters of Field Marshal Rommel during the Allied attack in...

Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov is rightfully considered one of the brightest Russian painters, graphic artists and portraitists of the Silver Age. An artist o...

Alexey Aleshkovsky - Afterword to the book of poems by his father, Yuz Aleshkovsky.

One of the most successful entrepreneurs in Japan, Kazuo Inamori, shares in his book his philosophical views, following which he has lived and worked for mor...

Mesmer, this “tragic loner”, who opened the era of psychotherapy, the first in a series of new psychologists, but who came too early and therefore was attrib...

The author tells in a lively, fascinating way about the life and work of the great German composer of the 18th century Johann Sebastian Bach. Intended for a ...