Biographies and memoirs

A popular publication that provides an accessible and fascinating account of two interconnected polar expeditions that left a bright mark on the history of A...

Fragments of the book by writer and journalist Paolo Manelli (1891–1984) “Shoes in the Sun.” Good people and the criminal everyday life of war. Translation b...

Chapters from the book “It's All Over” by the Englishman Robert Graves (1895–1985); translation by Elena Ivanova, introduction by Larisa Vasilyeva. An absolu...

The documentary book of the Englishwoman Vera Brittain (1893–1970) “Testaments of Youth”, fragments from which translated by Anton Ilyinsky are published by ...

Benedict Spinoza (1632–1677) was a deeply religious man, but did not belong to any religion. Having lived the life of a righteous man, he found himself an ou...

Boris Vian ─ French writer, and in general, a man of diverse talents, the author of a number of modernist shocking works, who nevertheless became a classic o...

A heartfelt story about the fate of a simple Russian woman. Revolution, war, orphanhood - all this became the childhood and youth of a village girl in the Ru...

“Ivan Ivanovich came from an old noble family. He was born in 1798 and as a thirteen-year-old boy (in 1811) he was sent to the famous Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, ...

“Chaadaev (Petr Yakovlevich) is a famous Russian writer. The exact year of his birth is unknown. Longinov says that Ch. was born on May 27, 1793, Zhikharev c...

“In St. Petersburg, soon renamed Petrograd on the occasion of the war with Germany... enormous patriotic inspiration reigned, the center of which was undoubt...

“Senkovsky (Osip-Yulian Ivanovich) – Orientalist, critic and journalist. Born on March 19, 1800 into an old Polish noble family; studied at Vilna University,...

Kutolin Vladislav Alekseevich is a famous scientist, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (born in 1933) On the occasion of the 78th anniversary o...