Documentary literature

On October 20, 1947, the Committee on Un-American Activities of the US House of Representatives (created in 1934 with the purpose of exposing people sympathi...

In this book I talk only about that period of his life that seems the most mysterious. About what Shabtai Kalmanovich did during his African epic and, follow...

Neil Ansell spent five years living between the back of beyond and the middle of nowhere, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water and effectively on...

Once upon a time, a person called St. Petersburg “a city of horror, a palace of fear.” His name is probably now lost forever in the annals of history. Howeve...

Scientists and engineers worked for several years to create an atomic bomb. The test was to show whether they succeeded or not. Looking into the past from th...

We usually read biographies of those who have already achieved fame and success. However, not everyone realizes that for every famous writer there are hundre...

These two decades turned out to be turning points for many countries and peoples. Complex, contradictory and very interesting times. In my book, I decided to...

From the author:

I left the institution with the apocalyptic name of SevNIIGiM for the stokers. Science there huddled against the wall like a beggar. ...

Yuri Kolker in his memories of his first steps in poetry, which led him to a conscious choice in his further work.

This amazing man is not forgotten, no, but still his era has already receded to such an extent into the past and is so alien to modernity that we rarely reme...

He considered himself “the second poet of the 20th century” (after Pasternak; regardless of the fact that the century was not yet over) - few people would ag...

Once upon a time there were three bearers of the surname Luria (yes, Luria, not Lurie): the eldest, the middle and the youngest. Of course, you can pronounce...