Biographies and memoirs

With the story “Andrei Kolosov” Turgenev not only settled scores with his own youthful romanticism and enthusiastic daydreaming; he was also involved in the ...

“...But by the way -...enough to talk about your own person; I will talk about others. This is more interesting both for the reader and for myself. Let me no...

18+. Some essays in the series contain obscene language.

“The goal of any holiday is to extract as much money, patriotism, emotions from a person as p...

Montague James asks the reader for forgiveness for his lack of patience in writing stories and, referring to his more talented followers who may want to brin...

18+. Some essays in the series contain obscene language.

“A bug is just a bug” (c).

BRIEF AUTOBIOGRAPHY Born in 1936, in the village of Yemetsk, Arkhangelsk region. Since he lost his parents early, he was brought up in an orphanage in the vi...

Autobiographical story “Kopashka”, or how I was survived from the USSR, by the scientist Soifer, published in the Parisian magazine Continent, No. 102, 1999,...

The work of D.R.S. Mead, a famous scientist, bachelor of arts, assistant to H.P. Blavatsky, contains the most impartial and benevolent account of the life an...

Autobiographical book of the famous “Virov resident” Vasily Grigorievich Konarev - geneticist, academician of the All-Russian Academy of Agricultural Science...

Annenkov wrote his essay-memoir about Pisemsky at the end of 1881 - at the very beginning of 1882, that is, shortly after the writer’s death (January 1881), ...

The book is dedicated to the biography of the Tara, Kyakhta, Semipalatinsk, St. Petersburg merchant I. A. Noskov, who made a significant contribution to the ...