Biographies and memoirs

“Notes of an Ambulance Doctor (1941–1944)” is written by Alexander Grigorievich Dreitser, a doctor at the People’s Commissariat of Health clinic. They are co...

A short story about youth, love and the meaning of life. Autobiographical. You could call it nostalgia, but nothing has changed in 33 years. I'm still waitin...

When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary bi...

History remembers Hannibal as the greatest Carthaginian commander. He is rightfully considered one of the most talented commanders and statesmen of antiquity...

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891–1940) is one of the very best in Russian literature. It is varied, entertaining, very cultured and brilliant. Moderately ...

Dear successor of his kind! Thank you for your attention to my book! We all need to know our ancestral roots. It is ROOTS, not titles. My search led me to wh...

Actor Yuri Bogatyrev viewed his life through the prism of the characters he played. The world around him seemed harsh, and he sought protection from it in cr...

The diary notes were published in the Khreshchatyk magazine

An extremely personal thing. Although it is a fiction, there is a nerve inside there, real, bare, connecting tightly and forever.

A semi-autobiographical story about ordinary people. And how different they are. Contains obscene language.

A story about a short love between an aristocratic girl and an Old Believer from the outback...

The Godunovs are a famous Russian noble family that ceased to exist three centuries ago. Representatives of this family were kings, nobles, clerks, were memb...