Biographies and memoirs

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...

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 ...