Biographies and memoirs

Memories of the Itinerants. “At the Traveling Exhibitions we learned about life, and in these lessons the most precious, most desirable and bright word alway...

When comparing Serov's first masterpieces - Girl with Peaches or Girl in the Sun - with his later, last works (portrait of Ida Rubinstein or the Rape of Euro...

The fifty years that have passed since midshipman Tolstoy decisively changed his life, he, with his characteristic passion and obsession, devoted to his belo...

Altai researcher, local historian, writer and public figure Vasily Fedorovich Grishaev talks about the repressions of the 1930s in Altai and their victims in...

The book about the life and work of Sándor Ferenczi (1873–1933), one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis, who was a student, patient, friend and confidant of S...

A story from a personal diary! Life as it is! Volgograd, quarantine, mysterious acquaintance...

The story of school hatred of the English language and enmity with the teacher. All coincidences are random, and the characters are fictitious.

This book contains works by various authors, united by one theme - they all describe the life and work of the legendary ruler of antiquity - King Ashoka. For...

The story of Leland Stanford - from his birth in a lonely bar to the founding of a world-class university that became and remains the core of Silicon Valley....

Vincent Van Gogh. A famous artist whose name is on the lips of even those who know almost nothing about painting. His life and his actions are very different...