Biographies and memoirs

Ellison's true memories of his relationships with women, and especially about one of them, whose name was Valerie. Depicting how he was deceived and robbed, ...

“Head of Fidiev Zeus. Silver curls. Heroic shoulders bent, bent by hard times. Sad, ironic smile. It seemed that his lips were whispering Turgenev’s phrase u...

Published in the collection “The Worlds of Harlan Ellison. Volume 1. Worlds of Fear", publishing house "Polaris", Riga, 1997, p. 14-19.

Essay on the life and work of a Russian artist. Artist Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy was born in 1837 and died in 1887. It is not difficult to calculate that 198...

How did Mao Zedong manage to turn hundreds of millions of Chinese into dumb slaves, hypnotized by his “divine aura”? The dictator of the second half of the 2...

Who did General Pinochet go down in history - the executioner of his people or the savior of the fatherland? The book examines the hidden springs of the acti...

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual sur...

“The eighties should have had their spokesman in landscape, just as they had him in literature in the person of Chekhov. The shattered hopes of the advanced ...

“...I associate memories of Kasatkin with memories of my school life at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, since under Kasatkin I ent...

Introductory article to the collection of works by Edgar Allan Poe.

In February 2007, I wrote the story “The Unknown Facet of Mikhail Krug’s Work.” But not a single Russian publishing house, not a single newspaper, not a sing...