Modern prose

1941 USSR. A pilot named Andrei was shot down, he needs to get to his own people when he is in an enemy village.

“...There is still time ahead: the long day of today and tomorrow and the one that lies ahead, if we live. And in each of them there is a simple joy: the roa...

Parents are chosen! But it turns out that simply choosing mom and dad is not enough. A girl nicknamed Eight, waiting for the Emergence along with other guys,...

The farm neighbor, lonely Aunt Klava, let in her tenants - a family of refugees from the hot spot of the former USSR.

Grandfather heard a naive poem about the war on the radio and remembered himself as a boy from the village of Lazur, on the outskirts of Stalingrad, near Mam...

On New Year's Eve, several elderly men found themselves in a remote Zadonsk farmstead - villagers who had moved to the city returned to visit their homeland....

In the “Signal Copy” section there are chapters from the novel “The Wheel of Painful Rebirths” by the Chinese writer Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan (1955). The au...

In the section “From the Classics of the 20th Century” we are talking about the outstanding American poet William Carlos Williams (1883–1963). Translation an...

Argentine poet Raul Ortega Montenegro (1942). Poems from the book “The Theory of Snow” translated from Spanish by Ekaterina Khovanovich - “To see the snow fa...

Several unforgettable stories about the first months of military service in the Navy.

Dear readers! The third novel in the Colon series will be published soon. In the meantime, I want to share with you a small fragment of a new book. The ancie...