Biographies and memoirs

Literary and biographical essays by a passionate book lover about forgotten and little-known authors of adventure novels.

An ordinary Soviet citizen who radically changed his fate in times that were, as if in mockery, called “fateful.” Overnight, he lost everything that keeps a ...

The most secret, dark, shyly closed from the eyes of prying eyes, the dominant side of life. About an instinct that is second in strength only to the instinc...

A story about an unforgettable and exciting vacation trip to an island in the Astrakhan region.

Imagine a deserted Mars, colonized by writers. Mars on the Black Sea coast. Mars, where young writers from all over the country came to learn to write and ta...

The book was written by a battalion officer who fought in Afghanistan. Its strength and attractiveness lies in the absolute authenticity of the events descri...

Among all Russian landscape painters, Shishkin undoubtedly belongs to the place of the most powerful. There are few artists whose work has received such wide...

Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez is one of the symbols of the artistic era of his time. He made a brilliant career as a diplomat at the court of the Spanis...

Have you ever wondered why ordinary people try to take away the most precious thing - their own life? I told the true story of myself - a positive activist w...