Biographies and memoirs

Maybe this story will help you resist too. As you go through the trials that poets beautifully call “the crucible,” remember that many have been here. And so...

A collection of memories about the life of the Moscow house of N. A. Olshevskaya and V. E. Ardov, where Anna Akhmatova lived for a long time in the post-war ...

Mikhail Ardov in his new book addresses pressing issues that concern any person who cares about Russian culture. This is the formation of creative and human ...

A short essay on the difficult fate of the famous rocket engineer, founder of interplanetary astronautics - Wernher von Braun.

Autobiography of a woman and her child diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. Author shares her daily struggles and challenges. Includes appendices providing...

Having graduated from the military academy at the age of 28, recent front-line soldier A.D. Zharikov served for some time in the General and other headquarte...

Nina Mikhailovna’s life path was long and difficult, but at the same time, her active life in science, which she loved wholeheartedly, unfortunately, turned ...

“There are two Renans: one is semi-legendary, the other is real, real, remaining in the memory of those who had the chance to know him at least a little. And...

“In Turgenev, first of all, I wanted to capture the unique features of the writer’s soul. He was perhaps the only Russian person in whom you (especially if y...

“In the middle of 1859, I completed a course at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. With each year of my study at the academy, I became more and more con...

“I’m skipping over the impressions of my early childhood, although a lot of them have been preserved in my memory. I skip them because they relate to my own ...