Biographies and memoirs

The author of the book is Yuri Mikhailovich Lopukhin, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Honored ...

The story of Brigitte Bardot can be called the true story of the transformation of an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. Cross-eyed, with crooked teeth, sh...

Was there a gladiatorial revolt in 74–71 BC? e. in Italy, a spontaneous protest or a planned operation behind enemy lines? Who was his leader Spartacus - a s...

In the spring of 1880, everyone in St. Petersburg was talking only about the new painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi. Art lovers already knew him well, but there wer...

The life of King Mithridates Eupator, a powerful Pontic ruler and famous enemy of Rome, was riddled with secrets and is not as well known to historians as it...

Natalia Nordman, even in her youth, could hardly be called a beauty. It would seem that nothing in her appearance could attract a subtle connoisseur of femal...

Claude Monet, one of the leaders of impressionism, was called the “Raphael of water,” “the discoverer of color.” Today he is a recognized genius, his paintin...

Book of memories of Stanislav Govorukhin.

The book is published in abstract form. This is a story about how the code used by the high command of Hitler's Wehrmacht to transmit orders to the troops fe...

“I remember how twenty-two years ago I lost my father-in-law within a few months, waited for the loss of my wife, for whom doctors predicted an unsuccessful ...

“—“A dishonest” friend who had a “stupid” influence—that’s how V. G. Chertkov was defined by L. L. Tolstoy. And Lev Nikolaevich himself on May 1, 1910, when ...

The story about the Lykov family - Russian Old Believers, who, by the will of fate, lived for several decades in solitude in the Pritelets taiga and the uppe...