Biographies and memoirs

Anyone who can understand the phenomenon of the Beatles' popularity will discover the main secret of success and brilliant fame. However, to do this you need...

Killed or committed suicide? To this day, not a single conversation about Yesenin is complete without this question, no matter where it arises. The editorial...

To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov's writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her c...

The Doors have always stood out from the crowd. Their work undoubtedly went beyond the usual blues riffs and cliches of hippie culture. They were crude and u...

Growing up in the German province, Prince Friedrich Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1906–1983), heir to a princely house that previously ruled a small vassal ...

The book attempts to fill one of the gaps in the coverage of the civil war, namely, the movement called Makhnovshchina. The central figure of the author's na...

The author of these memoirs, Professor A.L. Chizhevsky, left a bright mark on the development of a number of scientific areas. The selected memoirs reveal th...

Reviewers: Candidate of Historical Sciences Yu. A. Belyaev, Doctor of Art History E. G. Sorokina A story about the life and work of the great Russian compose...

The book is about how Love is not always butterflies. Often these are twisted veins, broken ribs from the inside and a thousand deaths overnight, only to liv...

Who doesn’t know Sony, Honda, Apple Computer, Microsoft today? What do we know about the people who created them? How do geniuses differ from ordinary people...

Who doesn’t know Sony, Honda, Apple Computer, Microsoft today? What do we know about the people who created them? How do geniuses differ from ordinary people...