Biographies and memoirs

The story is dedicated to Ekaterina Alexandrovna Maksimova, the wife of the legendary Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge.

The book will be useful for anyone who wants to think about the topic of life choices. Throughout our lives we see the consequences of people's choices, and ...

Chapter from the book “Pictures of Revolutionary Paris” by Georges Le Nôtre, published in 1904.

Georgy Stepanovich Zhzhenov spent many decades searching for the scoundrel who, with his denunciation, sent him to Stalin’s camps. And - found... “It would b...

On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the ...

On the early Epiphany morning of 1971, a half-dressed and obviously drunk woman was running along the central street of Vologda. Seeing the policeman, she ru...

On May 19, 1984, in a somnambulant state, a member of the USSR national football team, Valery Voronin, entered a beer-drinking station on Avtozavodskaya Stre...

In Europe, Isaac Babel was called the “Russian Marquis de Sade.” In his stories, sadism was elevated to an absolute cult. Ironically, this writer was torture...

When the tortured corpse of the 82-year-old artist Peng was discovered in Vitebsk, his student Marc Chagall was in his Parisian mansion. However, investigato...

The first book of the famous Kyiv businessman Garik Korogodsky, “How to spend a million that doesn’t exist...” is published with a small note: “and other sto...

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bernstein is one of the most significant figures among brain researchers of the 20th century. A subtle experimenter and deep thinker, ...

This is a lecture that Irina wrote for her bat mitzvah, which took place at the age of 20. The author now knows that she is a multi-potentialite and many of ...