The ideal of sociability and full-fledged conversation is universal to humanity, but also unique to each culture. The American ideal, emerging (in the 18th-1...

Who doesn’t remember the dialogue from the famous film: “Fedya (hospitably, with a wide smile): Come to us in Kolyma! Kozodoev (choking, with horror): No, no...

From what time should the history of the Baptism of Rus' be counted? From the day when the Apostle Andrew the First-Called, according to legend, erected a cr...

Ilya Yeniseev, the hero of a new action-packed and dramatic novel by the famous writer Andrei Vorontsov, is endowed with the gift of seeing the future. At fi...

An essay written by Venedikt Erofeev on June 1, 1961 upon admission to the correspondence department of the philological department of the Vladimir State Ped...

The book of the great German writer includes works that have not been published for many decades. Most of the works from the books “Fantasies in the Manner o...

Nikolai Tsageridze, an ardent, “southern” man, endowed with great energy and heart, is not used to retreating and knows exactly what to do on the taiga river...

The book consists of excerpts from the writer’s notebooks, which he kept for decades. From them one can trace the formation of his personality, his attitude ...

A psychological novel telling about the terrible fate of a boy named Louis, who never knew his father and was rejected by his mother. With incredible emotion...

The State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin is one of the most significant art collections of the Soviet Union, which presents works of art from ...