Biographies and memoirs

The remarkable Russian artist Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov (1889–1974) lived the last half century of his life abroad, in France. The book “Diary of My Meetings” ...

Alice, Sash-Bash, etc.

Viktor Konetsky is one of those rare modern prose writers whose works have been loved by both critics and the widest circles of readers for many years. Konet...

Published information about the life of I. F. Annensky is relatively scarce. Below are data from yet unpublished documentary materials stored in TsGALI, TsGI...

From the author:

I left the institution with the apocalyptic name of SevNIIGiM for the stokers. Science there huddled against the wall like a beggar. ...

Yuri Kolker in his memories of his first steps in poetry, which led him to a conscious choice in his further work.

He considered himself “the second poet of the 20th century” (after Pasternak; regardless of the fact that the century was not yet over) - few people would ag...

Once upon a time there were three bearers of the surname Luria (yes, Luria, not Lurie): the eldest, the middle and the youngest. Of course, you can pronounce...

There is (don’t be surprised) a very popular and discussed term in bodybuilding - “hard gainer”. And it has nothing in common either with “gain” on the “loti...

Do you remember summer? The mysterious part of the year, which you then collect in your palms for decades, wash your face in the morning, spread it on like s...

The book was published in 2006 and is dedicated to one of the first leaders of AVTOVAZ, Boris Sidorovich Pospelov, deputy chief designer of VAZ, deputy techn...