Biographies and memoirs

Many times Uwe Timm tried to write about his brother, a volunteer in the SS Totenkopf division. But every time he started reading his diary and letters from ...

History is made by people, and this is not subject to any doubt. World history has recorded many heroes, political figures, discoverers, inventors, excellent...

“What Ibsen in his drama “Caesar and the Galilean” calls the “third kingdom” found its apostle in the person of one of the most prominent representatives of ...

“The work of this master is the greatest contribution of the American people to art - the greatest contribution of Americans to world culture. Dozens and doz...

Of course, history is made by men. But we know very well that behind every great man there is a great woman. Here are the biographies of the greatest women w...

This brochure, published in the year of the 105th anniversary of the Komsomol, is an addition to my book “Organizing and educating ...” (M, 2017), prepared b...

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) is by no means a pleasant person, but his philosophical works are worthy of admiration. His works give us a clear idea of wha...

It is worth mentioning the name of Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527), and his main work, “The Prince,” is immediately recalled, a guide permeated with cynicism...

Memoirs of Marc Chagall's son David McNeil is a story about the days spent next to Chagall, something between a story and a memoir. David's mother is artist ...

Getting married to a foreigner is a wonderful dream, pictures of beautiful weddings from women’s TV series, stories from the Internet... But every dream has ...

A tiny collection of poems about everything that was flying through my head while the calendar was approaching May.