Культурология

Hurley Creel is an outstanding American sinologist, author of scientific works on the history, government system, philosophical and religious movements of Ch...

The Encyclopedia of Banned Cinema tells the story of 125 famous films that were censored to one degree or another in the United States. It contains an analys...

New Zealand ultra-conservative scholar Kerry Bolton examines the political views of such giants of the last century as Gabriele d'Annunzio, William Yates, Ri...

Russian rulers throughout the 16th and 17th centuries chose their wives using a complex ritual known as the viewing of brides. The most beautiful girls of Mu...

Selected chapters from A. Andreev’s book “Essays on Russian Ethnopsychology.”

The book by historian and reenactor Ekaterina Mishanenkova is dedicated to debunking popular myths about the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages, people were ter...

"The Book of the Ruler of the Shang Region" is one of the most significant monuments of the socio-political thought of ancient China. It sets out the teachin...

We are confident in the uniqueness of our personality, our beliefs and feelings. But this is a big illusion. Our Self is created within the framework of a sp...

Pushkin’s life and creative path is closely connected with St. Petersburg. He was first brought here, to the banks of the Neva, as a child in 1800. Here, in ...

French journalist Bertrand Meyer-Stubley, well acquainted with the life of the palace, reveals to us the secrets of a huge complex mechanism in which everyda...

This sketch describes the paths leading to understanding the image of the city as conveyed by the great artist of words. This determines the approach to the ...

“To ensure normal functioning and control over all spheres of public life, a totalitarian state creates special tools. The most important place in it, along ...