Biographies and memoirs

“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...

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 Below are data from yet unpublished documentary materials stored in TsGALI, TsGI...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...