Biographies and memoirs

Mysticism, providence, fate... In the case of Anastasia Vertinskaya, it seems that the matter could not have happened without the intervention of higher powe...

In Rus' they have always loved and revered the sick, the crippled, the wretched, who bear their infirmity without grumbling, but with gratitude to God. Their...

Many actresses do not like to be given the epithet “intellectual,” but Irina Miroshnichenko is not one of them. It is difficult to choose a more accurate epi...

Tatyana Samoilova is one of the most beautiful actresses of modern cinema. She studied ballet and English from the third grade, and was gifted with enormous ...

Lyubov Polishchuk is an actress known to everyone in our country, who perfectly performed romantic and comedic roles. She felt great in a slightly hooligan r...

The book includes memories of the great French singer, actress Edith Piaf and her friend, director and screenwriter, Marcel Blistep. Piaf's memoirs are an em...

Antonella Cilento was born and raised in Naples. The image of the legendary city was created by her memories and differs significantly from the pictures in t...

Probably, the twentieth century will not remember another woman like Ekaterina Alekseevna Furtseva. She was the only one who managed to be both the Secretary...

The actress's first film role brought her extraordinary popularity. In 1956, as a student at VGIK, she played club worker Lenochka Krylova in Eldar Ryazanov’...

The incomprehensible fate of Sri Ramana Maharshi is a unique phenomenon of “lifelong wandering in one place.” The first and last journey of the young Maharsh...

Sometimes you think: you should probably keep diary entries. Then the main events, dates, and names of people will remain, at least on paper. So, perhaps, Ge...