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The book tells about the centuries-old, often dramatic history of one of the oldest Russian Orthodox monasteries - the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery on the ...

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The Germans dubbed them “black devils” and “black death”. Their battle cry is “Polundra!” terrified the enemy. They had no equal in hand-to-hand combat. Thei...

The work of Tommaso Landolfi (1908-1979), whom critics unanimously single out as one of the key figures of world literature of the 20th century, a subtle mas...

Yuri and Olga are leaving for Cyprus to relax after the Moscow events. But there they accidentally meet the brother of Shah, who was killed by Olga. Now the ...

Isaac Asimov and William Tenn, Robert Sheckley and Robert Silverberg, Bernard Malamud and Isaac Bashevis Singer... The golden pens of American science fictio...

The book “Alexander III and His Time” can be called, without exaggeration, an encyclopedia of the historical life of Russia in the 1880-90s, and its signific...

The Dry Cargo Mountain Market lived its own measured life, and nothing foreshadowed that terrible incident, which was then only gossiped about by seagulls in...