Biographies and memoirs

The heroes of the book “Four in Norway, or Masha Stays at Home” go on vacation to a small Norwegian village and live in a large house surrounded by fjords an...

This is a two-volume book about his youth - about studying at the Leningrad School of Technicians 506 UKOPP named after. S. M. Kirov (Leningrad), about the d...

This book is about the funny and sad moments of my work in the pension delivery department.

The story “Podlipovtsy” not only created a literary name for the author, democratic writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Reshetnikov (1841-1871), but also remains to t...

The author's memories of childhood, of life in the Netherlands in 1937-39.

The book “Nevsky: The Main Battle” tells the story of one of the most revered and beloved Russian princes by our people - Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky. In hi...

When asked how to announce her, she usually said simply: “As you want, just without titles. Best of all - “Your guest...” And indeed, why list titles and awa...

E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) is the last German romantic and the first realist, a man who was destined to connect the world of the ordinary with the magic o...

In 1938, high-spirited Helen McPhail sails the SS Normandie to a Europe displaying ominous signs of change due to Hitler’s increasing demands for power. T...

Chapters from the autobiographical book “I Believe” by the author of the “Republic of SHKID” L. Panteleev. In this book, Pantleev will talk about his faith, ...

"The vicissitudes of fate, fate and people's lives" is an attempt in simple language to describe the criminal as a person, to show the reasons for his crimes...

First edition: Charles A. Siringo. Two Evil Isms: Pinkertonism and Anarchism. 1915. Texan Charles Angelo Siringo (1855 - 1928) was a cowboy for fifteen years...