Культурология

V.F. Ryan is a leading British Slavic philologist, a member of the British Academy, President of the British Society of Folklorists, and an excellent expert ...

The book tells about the life and work of the famous Russian artist, a woman of amazing destiny, Zinaida Serebryakova. A representative of the illustrious dy...

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) is one of the most multifaceted figures in the culture of the twentieth century: poet, essayist, thinker, playwright, but most import...

The published work of Mikhail Sergeevich Korelin (1855-1899), medievalist historian, professor at Moscow University, is based on a course of public lectures ...

Vladimir Mayakovsky about how he writes his poems. Ironic, firm, in his own style and invariably frank. There is something to read in the biographical aspect...

Albany language? Is this that strange Russian who exists on the Internet? When we pronounce the word “Albanian,” we remember “To Bobruisk, animal!” and “Afft...

One hundred thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was one of at least six species of humans living on this planet - an unremarkable animal that played no more rol...

In the book of the French historian F. Chamoux, Hellenistic civilization is presented not as an era of decline in the traditions of classical Greece, nor as ...

Did you know that Athos told the story of the Three Musketeers? Yes, yes, in the preface to the novel, Dumas says that the story is based on the notes of Cou...

The book by the famous art critic Jean-Paul Crespel provides an entertaining account of the daily life of artists whose work constituted an entire era in wor...

Hajj is a pilgrimage to Mecca to the al-Haram mosque, performed at the beginning of the twelfth month of the Muslim lunar calendar, as a result of which this...

The British Parliament is the oldest in the world. Since the 13th century, England has been a “laboratory” of parliamentary mechanisms and institutions, many...