Biographies and memoirs

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...

I had a violin. The violin was very old, but its sound was good, it stayed in tune and had never been repaired. For such value, I lovingly called it Stradiva...

This story is about a guy named Hope, or rather, about a turning point in his life that ruined the man. Like many dramas, the story begins with great love an...

This publication includes an edited text in Russian of a book by the English writer, traveler and radio journalist Rhoda Power, who turned out to be an unwit...

The proposed “Notes” are a chronicle of the events of the Civil War in the south of Russia. Readers experience dramatic, tragic, and sometimes shocking episo...

The name of King Solomon was heard even by people very far from Judaism and the Jewish people. However, most of us have little standard knowledge about this ...

Edition: From the diary of Arkhangelsk resident F.N. Parshinsky: July 21, 1941 - January 2, 1942 // War. Captured days: 1941-1942. Diaries and documents. Ark...

The book is about how I worked in Italy and lived there for one year and a month in 2000–2001. Impressions about Italy, Italians and the work where our women...

This small work in the form of a diary entry-letter is only the beginning of the series of “Omsk Letters”. Others will appear later. In general, it was origi...

This book is based on real events, the names of the characters have been changed, the book is written from memories, not professionally, but contains all the...

The name of the Rothschild banking house is known to everyone today. Legends were formed about the Rothschilds and the most incredible rumors circulated; the...

Perov's later work is usually characterized as a period of searching, in which the artist, as a rule, fails. Meanwhile, now that the entire path of developme...