“Thank you, gentlemen. I am very glad that we met, because the fate of Vertinsky, like no other fate, reminds us of the impossibility and tragic unnecessaryn...

“The lecture is dedicated to the work of the Russian classic Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, who suffered most from the fact that in Russia there was...

“I have never approached the subject of presentation with such timidity, since the topic sounds very blasphemous. The fear of any researcher precisely before...

“We, modest school teachers, have a much more decent and familiar classroom audience for talking about Russian classics, and in general, to be honest with yo...

“Ilf and Petrov have recently left active reading, as it seems to me, for two reasons. The first is that the older generation knows them by heart, and we are...

“Hello, dear friends! I admit, I take on this topic with some joy, because usually, when you start talking about someone beloved by everyone, you immediately...

“How Bunin manages to combine prose and poetry, does every topic withstand this genre, how is the late Bunin constructed and what is he about... Remembering ...

This story can be considered an epilogue to the novel “Tow Truck,” completed exactly ten years ago. The author continues to be nostalgic for his characters a...

The writer and poet Dmitry Bykov decided to act honestly and told, apparently, a true story. But for a writer this is an almost impossible task. And even mor...

The end of the world, scheduled for December 2012, did not happen. Candles, pasta and stewed food gather dust in the pantries. But don't rush to throw them a...