Biographies and memoirs

For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply poetic novels which have won her a place among today's ...

Romain Gary (1914–1980) is an outstanding French writer of Russian origin, a man of an unusual and tragic fate, one of the most popular phenomena in modern F...

Mikhail Bulgakov is a great writer and hoaxer, the author of classic prose and dramatic works of Russian literature, who became famous throughout the world f...

“I staggered through the London night looking for hearts to stick a knife into.” The most honest book about moral violence through the eyes of an abuser. A m...

The name of the great Russian artist, famous portrait painter and one of the greatest masters of European painting of the 19th century, Valentin Aleksandrovi...

Reinhold Messner - mountaineer, traveler, writer. One of the most legendary climbers in the world. He was the first to conquer all 14 “eight-thousanders” in ...

—I walk along the airfield and think: “I’m thirty, and now my childhood dream is coming true. I'm walking toward a jet-powered car that I'll be driving in fr...

“I had a contact Valega at the front. His real last name was Volegov, with an emphasis on the first “o,” but everyone called him Valega. He was a small, gloo...

American Elena Adams Keller (1880-1968) was born a normal, healthy child in the town of Tuscumbia, Alabama, into a wonderful old family. At the age of 19 mon...

From the editors of “Nature”: An outstanding theoretical physicist, creator of scientific schools in radiophysics and plasma physics, Academician Leontovich ...

Autobiographical story-essay.

The book contains memories of children and teenagers, prisoners of fascist camps in Latvia and other countries.