Biographies and memoirs

“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...

“I became a real bandit quite unexpectedly. That is, I was already one, but I myself didn’t even suspect anything about it. I, of course, showed some tendenc...

“When I was little, I always came up with something. I don’t remember exactly, but I probably thought ordinary life was too boring. I must say that as I grew...

“Vadik solemnly took out a large thick book from his briefcase and said: “Alla Arkadyevna, I brought an encyclopedia about insects and something else.” Dad a...

“Human memory works strangely, at least for me, for sure. If it weren’t for numerous family photographs and my mother’s enthusiastic stories, from which anyo...

“Instead of the Lord God, we had Him. A completely cozy old man (in distant childhood he didn’t seem any different), always ready to understand, console, giv...

“The small village of Coal Mines is an almost indistinguishable point on the map, lying closer to America than to the populated part of Russia. The populatio...

“The more I live, the more clearly I see: the earth pulsates with blood, like the human body. If it lives for a long time without war or revolution, it perfo...

“At the age of four, on Easter week, I found myself at the altar for the first time. In the Temple of All Who Sorrow Joy, like a stone Easter cake, large and...