Biographies and memoirs

“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...

“We were the same age, we were on first name terms, we met in Paris, Rome and New York, twice I was his confidante, he was the best man at my wedding, I was ...

About the famous Soviet pianist Heinrich Neuhaus.

The waiter Yakov Fedorovich Uskov seemed small and old, but it was obvious that the guests were greeted in the restaurant not by an ordinary food front worke...

The book you are holding in your hands is dedicated to the life and work of the great Muslim theologian and thinker Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazal...

Boris Yakovlevich Yampolsky was born in 1921 in Astrakhan; in 1929 the family moved to Saratov. Immediately after graduating from school, he was arrested “fo...

The first book in a series of short stories about Russian musicians. A fictional story of the creation of the Second, “Bogatyr” Symphony of the great Russian...

The stories of Olga Savelyeva, a popular blogger and motivational speaker, are always appropriate. After all, she writes about our life: so simple and comple...

Everyone can hear a story. We don't know where they come from or for whom, they just hover in the air above us. I hear them all the time, hear them and write...