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On the night of September 6, 2006, poetess Olga Beshenkovskaya died in Germany. We were not friends, we were only friendly, we saw ea...

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In my literary destiny there was, strictly speaking, only one event: in 1970 I realized that I was a conservative. Novelty, extolled a...

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These poems were written in Leningrad, in the years from 1976 to 1980, and partially revised in 1989 in Jerusalem. Almost all of them...

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Ivan Bunin once wrote humorous poems for the occasion using compound rhymes. A young Russian Parisian woman, who had already touched ...

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When everything around is bowing at the feet of a new master, to save the people's honor, sometimes a tiny mountain fortress is enoug...

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...

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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 collection contains stories by Yuri Kolker from different years, from 1987 to 2004.

Blok has done an incredible amount. The abandonment of harmonic precision was necessary. Blok became the best exponent of the new era, if we talk about poetr...

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...