Biographies and memoirs

The article was written for the series Historical Portraits. Sergey Vladimirovich Drokov is an archivist at the Central State Archive of the National Economy...

He was often compared to a comet racing across the sports horizon. He was called the hockey Pushkin. He was adored by the audience, respected by his rivals a...

The name of Henry V is associated with the most significant events in English and French history of the 15th century: the usurpation of the royal throne by E...

The book by Polish writer and journalist Hanna Krall (b. 1935) was written based on conversations with Marek Edelman, one of those who led the resistance to ...

This book tells about the courageous fighters for the liberation of Israel from English rule and will help readers get acquainted with the unknown pages of J...

The “great holy fool” of Russian poetry would live today as a master. Her wild, spontaneous, childlike, poetic speech is an effective inoculation against the...

I have enough memories of the war for several books. My children once listened to stories from their wartime, hungry childhood, and my grandchildren and grea...

Join writer, raconteur and chronic traveler Kevin Armstrong as he journeys through time and space on his gay sex odyssey. As Kevin explores gay saunas and...

Outside the window are the ruins of a huge country, dead potential; hope dying in a death rattle. There is a small family in the warm kitchen. What will happ...

Sometimes it seems to us that bad luck is only about us. That failures and failures make our lives dark and second-rate. It seems unbearable, but it's not al...

"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successf...