Biographies and memoirs

Gogol was not only a great artist: he was also a moral teacher, a Christian ascetic, and a mystic. We are trying to tell the story of this Gogol, using corre...

Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) is a legend of French theater and cinema of the first half of the 20th century. Playwright, actor, director, novelist, artist - he w...

“I remember A.P.’s small, cozy office. Chekhov in his Yalta dacha. Behind the desk and behind the elegant work chair there is an ottoman in the alcove, and a...

“With Turgenev N.G. Bunin met earlier than other writers. This acquaintance began by chance in 1860 or 1861, at the end of August or beginning of September, ...

“I always dress like a car, and the car like me,” said Tamara Lempicki... She knew how to live: she set goals for herself, sometimes very ambitious ones, and...

The first issue of the magazine for 2012 opens with a selection of poetry and prose (several short stories from the autobiographical book “Memories See Me” (...

At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune di...

“The name of Gleb Vasilievich Alekseev is little known in wide readership circles. Meanwhile, he was one of the popular writers of the 20-30s of the outgoing...

Mikhailovsky Nikolai Konstantinovich (1842–1904) - publicist, sociologist, literary critic; populist theorist. In 1868–1884, Mikhailovsky was an employee and...