Biographies and memoirs

“Marina loved to travel. I loved preparing for the trip. In advance. Per month. Better for two. She liked to pack her own bag, separate from her parents’, an...

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In my literary destiny there was, strictly speaking, only one event: in 1970 I realized that I was a conservative. Novelty, extolled a...

“The blade of a “Canadian”—a hockey skate—dulled from long use is still able to cut through the tarnished old ice on a bend, raising fountains, waves of rain...

“Now I understand why Santa Claus always gave me bears for the New Year. I thought it was me who had a complex, but it turns out it was he who had a complex....

“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...