Культурология

Has man always wanted to know who created the world around him? Who controls it? On whom does the future of this world depend? Different tribes and peoples i...

An amazing and extremely fascinating story of the conquest of the world by a simple plant that had a devilish appeal - tobacco. A. Gately managed to create a...

This book combines works devoted to the “fabulous times of idolatry”: the beliefs of the ancient Slavs, their ideas about the supernatural abilities of the M...

Confessions of the Flesh is the last work of the outstanding French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (1926–1984), completed in rough form shortly be...

“Imaginary orphanhood: Khlebnikov and Kharms in the context of Russian and European modernism” is an attempt to subject the artistic works, manifestos and li...

The book by the famous English historian, specialist in the history of Russia, D. Lieven is dedicated to the fate of the aristocratic clans of three leading ...

The book contains the works of ethnographer and historian Dmitry Ottovich Shepping (1823–1895), dedicated to Slavic paganism. The author conducts comparative...

The book is dedicated to the emergence and development of Tunisia, one of the Maghreb countries, which occupies a special place in the history of all of Nort...

The book gives an idea of the largest phenomena of art of the 20th century, the most important aesthetic problems, and allows you to get closer to understand...

Natalia Trauberg is an outstanding translator from English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. The man who revealed to the Russian reader the Christian...

“There is no place more boring and more magnificent than the courtyard of the Russian emperor.” This is how foreign ambassadors wrote about the imperial cour...

The author highlights several famous and rightfully of particular interest Greek mythological subjects, such as the historicity of the Trojan War, the voyage...