Biographies and memoirs

“I’m sitting at a large table in the kitchen, spreading out the chaos of random objects into a space the size of a spring-bound notebook. I haven’t written a...

“You see others sitting, eating, or mostly lying down, but Gusik resembled a restless bird, like a swift, which seems to do nothing but flutter over the grou...

“In my adolescence, when I just began to show interest in the female sex, I came across the following saying in one of the girl’s songbooks decorated with fl...

“I was born in Penza in 1979. When my grandmother talks about her childhood, she remembers the famine of the 30s, my grandfather remembers the German occupat...

“Is there a real skimmer in your house? Which is used to remove (in decent houses) real pulp. Pulp is for those who understand. In time immemorial, the days ...

“And this is the result: I’m lying in bed, clutching a tin box of chocolates, gripping the edges of the box so tightly that there are red marks on my fingers...

“Now childhood seems to me a cloudless and fleeting time, but then it dragged on maliciously under the sign of a total shortage of everything that we classif...

“My grandfather said: fear is the most vile feeling, the most useless. Never confuse fear with caution. The coward always dies first. Or his own people will ...

“Second-graders sat astride the horizontal bars in the school yard and told horror stories. - And then the black hand said: “Give up your heart!” - Vovka fin...

“ “Well, Alenka, you’re lucky,” said neighbor Aunt Vera, carefully touching Alenka’s bloody knee with a swab dipped in brilliant green. Vera, an actress of t...

“Once, when I was in first grade, my mother went on a business trip for two weeks, to Germany and the Czech Republic. Then these countries were called: the G...

“When I was little, at school I was a member of the KID. Nowadays people from different countries are calmly friends, correspond and visit each other. Previo...