Biographies and memoirs

In the “Classics of the Genre” column, philosopher and philologist Elena Khaltrin-Khalturina reflects on the personal and literary fate of Thomas Chatterton ...

Through Embassy Eyes.

Publication text: "International Literature", No. 9-10, 1941.

"Predatory things, according to the famous writer, are not so dangerous. The Strugatsky books are being filmed one after another. This means that they predic...

Everyone has a past. It contains secrets. Oh, how I want to take you on a ride to distant times. Subjective opinion is always a particle of the soul of an in...

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...