Biographies and memoirs

1920. Large-scale social upheavals plagued Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Crowds of emigrants rushed to the West in search of salvation from re...

Hush!.. We bow our knees with prayer... Before you are the ashes of our dear hero... With a silent smile on dead lips He is full of otherworldly, holy dreams...

The book is dedicated to the life and work of the prominent Siberian scientist, engineer and teacher S. A. Balakshin. His priority engineering and design act...

The work of Viktor Ivanovich Ivanov is the largest phenomenon of world artistic culture. By their figurative structure, every element of form, the master’s w...

Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar is one of the most famous names in the history of Russian culture of the 20th century. Perhaps there was no more multifaceted perso...

The life of Arkady Aleksandrovich Rylov coincided with the most difficult era of Russian history and culture - 1870-1930. And despite his quiet fame, the wor...

Among the brilliant galaxy of Russian artists of the Silver Age, Viktor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov holds one of the first places. Together with Mikhail V...

During the first decades of our century, only a few people transformed the face of the world. Like Chaplin in cinema, Joyce in literature, Freud in psycholog...

The story “My Academy. Leningrad, VMA named after. S.M.Kirova, 1950–1956.” gives an idea of this remarkable institution, which at that time had the highest p...

The story is written according to the memoirs of the author, who served in the Ryazan Parachute Regiment as a junior doctor at a medical station from 1956 to...

The “Doctor's Diary” presents the impressions of a participant in international assistance to the Armenian people during the days of their tragedy caused by ...