European ancient literature

In this publication, we present to the domestic reader the first translation into literary Russian of the first work dedicated to the Holy Grail, which was w...

The treatise describes the basics of attack and defense, both of which are intertwined in a straight line, otherwise you will not be able to attack and defen...

The name of Giambattista Basile (1583–1632), the author of “Tale of Tales,” has recently become known to the Russian-speaking reader, and yet he is quite fam...

The Divine Comedy, which became the pinnacle of the work of its great creator and glorified the name of Dante Alighieri for all time, is a pearl of world lit...

Under one cover there are fairies, brownies, lixies, giants, dragons, magic dogs and trees, night ghosts and boogie nannies, inhabitants of cellars, forests ...

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...

Don Quixote is the greatest novel of the Renaissance, translated into almost a hundred languages and exciting minds for more than four centuries. Miguel de C...

A collection of translations of Breton legends and fairy tales, collected and processed at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th century. The book is i...

Dialogue between student and teacher-examiner on the philosophy and art of fencing for the degree of maestro, in which one hundred conclusions or forms of kn...