Biographies and memoirs

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...

Fyodor Fedorovich Ushakov is the most famous Russian naval commander. He was called the “sea Suvorov”, because he also did not know defeat in battles, althou...

An article by science historian G. Gorelik, author of a biography of Andrei Sakharov.

A selection of newspaper articles about the talented poet Arkady Kutilov

Prince Dmitry Pozharsky is remembered for our people as the savior of the Fatherland. And this is not an exaggeration at all! Having led the people's militia...