Biographies and memoirs

“Home. Let's go home. Time to go home. I wish I could get home quickly. Go home. The house needs to be cleaned. I haven’t had this happen. Never. Wasn't at h...

“I don’t know what Gor-bachev is,” said the Wolf, after thinking a little. – Maybe it’s something else, not Gor-bachev? He just mixed up the letters, maybe? ...

“Today we, first-graders, went to the theater for the first time. It was called Youth Theater. What this meant, none of us knew. We thought it was from the “...

“...The profession in which my dad retired was a civil aviation pilot. His retirement came quite early; a year of work was considered to be one and a half ye...

“When we went out into the yard, Grandfather Apollonsky almost always sat with other old people, unless, of course, it was winter. In winter, they didn’t all...

“The midday summer sun spied on the praying people with a dazzling yellow eye. There were few of them, but the power of common prayer was so great that the n...

“The best time for a feat is childhood. I am eleven years old. I am in a huge city, it is noisy, smells of asphalt and diesel exhaust, the multi-colored plan...

“Now, settled on the surface, I am content with two coordinates that determine my location - latitude and longitude. Even the fact that the two-room apartmen...

“I remember - the first in my life. … I’m sitting in the bathtub, in front of me are two dark windows. The water is getting colder and I feel despair: life i...

“I woke up before the alarm clock and lay with my eyes closed. My father was listening to football until late and forgot to turn off the receiver. This happe...

“Before the renovation, I had a huge thick mirror in my hallway, more than two and a half meters high and about one and a half meters wide. I didn't like thi...