“We found ourselves in a luxurious apartment with a vast suite of rooms lit by chandeliers, lamps with intricate lampshades and sconces on the walls. Cheerfu...

“Power of the Earth” (1882) - a series of essays by G.I. Uspensky. “The Power of Darkness” (1886) - play by L.N. Tolstoy.

“The portly, broad-shouldered figure of a young man of about thirty with gray, somewhat inflamed eyes, thick hair combed up, and with a characteristic scar o...

“In the middle of the peasant yard, destroyed in many places, rough, snow-covered nags and sheep stood, picking up straw; Sparrows were huddling under the ca...

“In a dilapidated hut, standing on the edge of a provincial town, on a stormy autumn evening, by the light of a night lamp, two young guys were sitting at di...

“Late in the evening in the house of the provincial official Brusilov, his son, about seventeen years old, was sitting on an old sofa, his eyes fixed on the ...

“My acquaintance with Dmitry Vasilyevich began in the most original way thanks to the obligatory recommendation of A.V. Starchevsky, publisher of the newspap...

Peter Demyanovich Uspensky (1878–1949) is the author of the books “Tertium Organum”, “New Model of the Universe”, etc., an associate of the legendary George ...

“It would be an extreme injustice, reporting even fleeting information about Russian writers, not to mention such a major and outstanding literary figure as ...

“The death of every major public figure in one field or another arouses in society interest not only in learning the biography of the deceased, reading, so t...

“About twenty-seven years have passed since the day I left Yasnaya Polyana for my homeland. During this long period of time, Lev Nikolaevich managed to start...

“Indeed, less than five or six years passed before Nekrasov became the complete and autocratic owner of Sovremennik, which had about eighteen thousand subscr...