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The collection of Rigveda hymns itself aims to establish contact with the gods and, for a skillfully composed hymn, to receive the benefits that the deity is...

The book offered to the reader by the famous Soviet statesman A. Lozovsky is devoted to issues of tactics and strategy of the strike movement. The purpose of...

The collection presents selected sayings and aphorisms of the great Chinese thinker.

The third volume of the five-volume edition “Ancient Rus' in the light of foreign sources” contains eastern - Arab, Persian and Jewish - sources of the 9th-1...

The mythological-chronicle collection “Annals of Japan” (“Nihon shoki”, 720) is the main monument of early Japanese literature. It is a kind of encyclopedia ...

The mythological-chronicle collection “Annals of Japan” (“Nihon shoki”, 720) is the main monument of early Japanese literature. It is a kind of encyclopedia ...

“Kojiki” (Japanese: 古事記), i.e. "Records of Ancient Deeds" is the earliest monument of Japanese literature, dating back to 712. This text includes three scrol...

In December 2009, the St. Petersburg Mint of Goznak celebrates its 285th anniversary. The release of a book is dedicated to this event, which tells in a popu...

The first complete Russian translation of the world's most popular version of Arabian fairy tales, “The Arabian Nights,” edited by Joseph-Charles Mardrus, di...

Publisher's abstract: The work of Saigyo, who lived in the bloody era of the formation of military feudalism in Japan, is characterized by motifs of grief. P...