Biographies and memoirs

How nice it is to find a favorite place in your new home. Someone occupies a cozy chair in the center of the living room. Some people like a writing desk in ...

Siege diary of Olga Fedorovna Khuze. Introductory article by A.D. Kuzmina.Published in the magazine “History of St. Petersburg” No. 4–5 (2009).

The proposed biography of A. Kruchenykh was written in Kherson, its author, Sergei Sukhoparov, belongs to the leading advocates for Kruchenykh to enter Russi...

Alevtina Pavlovna Kolchina (1931-2022) - a native of the village of Pavlovsky, Ochersky district, the strongest skier-racer in the world of the second half o...

Love is a fairy tale. Some are the main character, and some are secondary. Now is a time when it is very difficult to find something truly worthwhile, so tak...

Memories of how I published in the Vladivostok samizdat magazine “CoKon” in the early 1990s.

A free verse poem of the memoir genre, in which the author recalls celebrating the New Year in his distant youth.

Collection collected by the Oral History Center of the European University of St. Petersburg. within the framework of the project “The Blockade in the Fates ...

The article is based on an analysis of materials from Leningrad newspapers: for 1946–1991 - “Leningradskaya Pravda”, “Smena” and “Evening Leningrad”; for 199...

This book conveys a vivid impression of the author’s meetings and conversations with Father Ambrose; it is imbued with a warm religious feeling and testifies...