Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (1929–1974) is a charismatic figure in Soviet cinema and Soviet literature. They speak about Shukshin only with reverence, or at m...

Viktor Tsoi is one of the brightest and most dangerous discoveries that await every teenager in the Russian-speaking part of the world. Tsoi himself is quite...

Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980) is a giant of Russian-language mass culture, an extremely popular personality from the 1970s to the 1990s. Today, when the Inte...

The Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Romanovich Belyaev (1884–1942) created an entertaining and easy read without boredom. He almost looks like the So...

For superficial authors, he [Stanislav Jerzy Lec] is convenient as a source of epigraphs, because there is no need to READ anything from him, to isolate anyt...

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American writer whose style is said to have “significantly influenced twentieth-century literature.”

If a dog attacked you, but did not bite you (you managed to drive it away, for example, with a stick), then you do not even have the opportunity to complain ...

This essay is a completely serious study and was written by an author who is conscientious about his work. Vulgarity is something that is carefully avoided i...

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