Культурология

There is no people whose culture, at an early stage of development, did not include human sacrifice. Accompanied by numerous servants, Egyptian pharaohs, Sum...

The book by Georges Vigarello, a professor at the University of Paris V and the author of many works on the representation and cultural history of the body, ...

The book tells about all one hundred houses of the main part of Nevsky Prospekt from its beginning to Vosstaniya Square. The architectural characteristics of...

Ligovsky Prospekt has long remained in the shadow of the attention of local historians, researchers and experts on the formation of St. Petersburg as a capit...

The book, based on a large amount of factual material, tells about the history of the formation and development of the phenomenon of “public catering” in St....

Did you know that the brother of the French revolutionary Marat lived in St. Petersburg? What is remarkable about the lady depicted in one of the best portra...

The book is compiled from essays by the authoritative St. Petersburg scholar A.D. Margolis. He chose them for publication under one cover from his many works...

Every resident of Leningrad - St. Petersburg knew Viktor Mikhailovich Buzinov from his weekly Sunday radio programs. In them, he talked about little-known ev...

The key thesis of the proposed book states that there are enough means on the planet to support the life of all people and every person, at an extremely high...

The book “Thistles and Thorns” is the result of many years of research work, a panorama of the social and political history of Europe from the 14th to the 21...

The book by Paul de Man, professor of comparative and French literature at Yale University, is devoted to the structural and phenomenological analysis of lit...

An encyclopedic scientific and informational conceptual study dedicated to the largest transition period in the history of culture - the artistic and aesthet...