Emperor Alexander II left a deep mark on Russian history; he managed to do what other autocrats were afraid to undertake - free the peasants from serfdom. Th...

Who is he, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, so understandable and beloved since childhood and increasingly “complicated” as we get older, acquiring almost incomprehe...

For the first time in Russian, the famous pentalogy about the Decembrists by the classic of French literature Henri Troyat, which is rightfully considered th...

For the first time in Russian, the famous pentalogy about the Decembrists by the classic of French literature Henri Troyat, which is rightfully considered th...

...Everything that happened somewhere in the distance, at home, at work, was ridiculous and boring. So much time wasted. Work, salary, everyday chores, bills...

Henri Troyat (real name Lev Tarasov) was born in 1911 in Moscow. In the 1920s, the family emigrated to France. Henri Troyat is a French writer, member of the...

Boris Pasternak, the brightest poet of the Silver Age, one of the most significant writers of the Soviet period and a great translator, was a man of difficul...

Emperor Alexander I (1777-1825), who reigned in Russia since 1801, is one of the most mysterious figures in Russian history. Probably, no other sovereign has...

Charles Baudelaire is one of the key names in French literature of the 19th century. His “Flowers of Evil” became a reference book in Russia, in a sense, det...

One of the most famous “romantic operas” in the life of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - his fourteen-year “correspondence romance” with the wealthy widow-philanth...