Biographies and memoirs

“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.

In this first-ever book of letters by novelist David Markson — a quintessential “writer’s writer” whose work David Foster Wallace once lauded as “pretty m...

The book "Whims of Fortune", which first saw the light in 1947, continued to remain unknown to the Russian-speaking reader. Meanwhile, it is no less interest...

This book is a short story about people whose destinies are connected with the history of rocketry of the current millennium, mainly about those who laid the...