Biographies and memoirs

I started writing as a child, but on the way to my vocation I changed many professions: university teacher, translator, top manager, editor-in-chief of a mag...

First a musician (Moscow Conservatory, piano and organ), then a poet - his own secret music; then the prose writer - the novel as a favorite large form, next...

Larissa is a philologist, both by education and by vocation. Believes that words should not and cannot be empty. He tries to fill his works with life-affirmi...

Daria Dontsova herself learned to read at the age of four, and wrote her first story at the age of seven and took it to the writer Valentin Kataev, her fathe...

Tatiana talks about the unusual experience of an eventful life, about the wanderings of her youth, about her love for her family, which, as she assures, ulti...

“Of course, Freud’s theory cannot in any way be considered universal knowledge capable of providing answers to all questions related to our political and soc...

“On the twenty-second day of December one thousand eight hundred and ten, Privy Councilor Prince Sergei Ivanov son Gagarin and collegiate adviser... chamberl...

Part of the history of the Society for Krishna Consciousness during the USSR. The book is written on the basis of archival documents of the Moscow Society fo...

The published biography of S. Zweig is compiled from the autobiography “A Fleeting Look in the Mirror of My Life,” written for the magazine “Ogonyok” (1928),...

Anna Evdokimovna Labzina is the daughter of court councilor Evdokim Yakovlevich Yakovlev, in her second marriage she is married to A.F. Labzin. founder of th...

The books of the English poet and prose writer Peter Ackroyd (b. 1949) are popular all over the world. He is the author of more than four dozen books of vari...

From the book Diaspora: New materials. Issue V. “A DEEP BOW TO LOYAL FRIENDSHIP.” Letters from Georgy Adamovich to Irina Odoevtseva (1958-1965). pp. 558-608<...