Biographies and memoirs

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...

An acclaimed novelist's riveting memoir about what it means to be adopted and how all of us construct our sense of self and family.Before A.M. Homes was b...

The book is dedicated to the life and work of one of the most complex and interesting artists of the Russian avant-garde, who formulated the principles of an...