Biographies and memoirs

Louise (Lou) Andreas-Salome (02/12/1861 - 02/05/1937) - Poet, psychoanalyst, philosopher, publicist. Muse of the greatest people of the turn of the 19th and ...

Miles Vorkosigan, now the Imperial Auditor, was sent to the planet Komarra, in whose orbit, under very mysterious circumstances, a solar reflector exploded, ...

“Artists said about Bryullov that he was a good mathematician, graduated from the university and attended lectures on mathematics in England. Mathematicians ...

“...He was small in stature, strong built, as if filled with lead: his face expressed efficiency, concern, like that of doctors or accountants, but did not h...

“...No matter what he strived for, no matter what he was looking for, fate allowed him to reach the end of his aspirations, and at the very end it cut off th...

“Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, once walking around a traveling exhibition, said: “Why are you all scolding Volkov, don’t you like him? He’s like a man: his voice ...

“My grandmother considered herself a very cultured person and often told me about it. At the same time, whether I was wearing shoes or not, she called me a t...

“Whoever the person is, even Pushkin, his first text will be “Childhood,” even if it is not written. Pushkin’s childhood seemed weak, as if he never existed....

“There is nothing more exciting for me than to find in my memories a previously invisible bookmark of time and that page after which life, if not changed, th...

“In the summer of 1988, Valya N. accompanied a group of foreign students on a trip to Azerbaijan. Valya N. and my mother were great friends. Valya N. suggest...

“Eighty-six, September. I'm fifteen months shy of two months. After the last lesson, I was the first to jump out into the recreation area, but Zhenya Demidov...