Biographies and memoirs

The circumstances of the death of nine-year-old Tsarevich Dimitri, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, on May 15, 1591, were investigated according to the...

None of the people who went down in history in the last quarter of the 18th century enjoyed such enormous popularity in Europe as Count Cagliostro. His busts...

Reine-Marie ParisCamille ClaudelTranslation from French by Natalia ShakhovskayaIL, No. 10, 1998

This book is about a teenage girl who wanted to grow up quickly and become independent. Learn, work and thereby help yourself and your parents. But an incura...

In general, a mental hospital is not the most terrible place in the world, it’s difficult there, but once you get used to it, it’s quite possible to be there...

“...He did not go to his destination. I went to the division, persuaded the commander to draw up claim documents based on the telegraph description... put th...

“...In the next century, when, having heard about the 70s of the present, teenagers absentmindedly ask in which volume of “History of the Russian State” they...

The childhood story of my grandfather Alexei Isaev, recorded and edited by me several years before his departure with good memory of him."When I was ten year...

Now it is difficult for me to claim absolute infallible accuracy of description in dates, names and chronological order of events. I think that this is not i...

A story about the personality and affairs of an interesting person - a hacker and a sailor, an anarchist and cryptographer - named Moxie Marlinspike. At birt...