Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1844-1927) - Russian Itinerant artist, famous for his plein air landscapes, everyday, historical and religious paintings. In his ...

“Great Artists” - a collection about outstanding masters of painting. The book series contains more than 50 illustrations, an “elegantly written” biography o...

In 1156, three large feudal houses (Fujiwara, Taira and Minamoto) clashed with each other in a struggle for supreme power. The fourth side of the struggle we...

This publication is the first complete translation into Russian of the Rig Veda, an ancient collection of poetic hymns addressed to the gods of the Aryan tri...

This publication is the first complete translation into Russian of the Rig Veda, an ancient collection of poetic hymns addressed to the gods of the Aryan tri...

This publication is the first complete translation into Russian of the Rig Veda, an ancient collection of poetic hymns addressed to the gods of the Aryan tri...

The eighth book “On Karna (Karnaparva)” is one of the most representative among the battle books of the ancient Indian epic “Mahabharata”. In addition to des...

Bhishmaparva is the sixth book of the Mahabharata. With it begins the description of the great battle of Kurukshetra, which forms the central part of the anc...

This book is a continuation of many years of work begun at the Russian Academy of Sciences more than half a century ago to create a complete, academic transl...

Books X and XI of the Mahabharata describe the events taking place immediately after the end of the great battle of the peoples of the entire Indian subconti...

Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) is a Dutch painter who intricately combined in his paintings medieval mystical ideas about the world, features of folklore, phil...

Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (1831-1894) is an outstanding Russian artist who made a huge contribution to the development of realistic painting, as well as portrai...