The book presents a rich collection of mystical, mysterious and creepy stories created by Western European and American writers of the 18th–20th centuries. F...

“In the Days of Defeats and Victories” was the title of Arkady Gaidar’s first story about the events of the Civil War, which also unfolded in Ukraine. Gaidar...

Russian historian, lawyer, public figure A. V. Lakier in 1856–1858. traveled through Western Europe, North America and Palestine. He published excerpts from ...

Many generations have passed since the Northern Lands saw a hero worthy of this title. Many have declared this, but few have lived to see this time. Timid, w...

Vikings. Those who pay in iron and not in silver. They know no fear, because the palaces of the gods await the dead, and wealth and glory await the living. A...

The book tells about the events of World War II in North Africa near the small railway station of El Alamein in the fall of 1942. The author uses documentary...

At the beginning of the Northern War, Russian troops captured the Swedish fortress of Nyenschanz, which stood on the Neva, during the campaign of 1703. And a...

A folk ballad is a concentration of a wide range of human passions, relationships in the family and between lovers, brought to the maximum boiling point. Her...

Mankind has been engaged in viticulture since time immemorial and wherever natural conditions allow. In the northern latitudes, the grape boom began a little...

Whale hunting is an activity for real men. On a ship heading towards the Arctic, two people who have nothing to lose met: the fallen harpooner Henry Drax and...

North Sea oil is the source of economic prosperity for the United Kingdom. Terrorists from the IRA - the Irish Republican Army - are encroaching on this well...