“Gogol Without the Gloss” is a documentary mosaic composed of fragments of the memories of the writer’s contemporaries, as well as documents and evidence col...

The book continues the series “Without Gloss” - stories about Russian writers based on documentary material. It contains memories of Marina Tsvetaeva and her...

In this book, fragments of contemporaries' memories of Pushkin are collected into thematic blocks, allowing you to look at the poet with close certainty. Her...

Goncharov is not easy to guess. He did not like to advertise his identity. And innate modesty was an obstacle, and provincial origin affected, and the secrec...

Mikhail Bulgakov called himself a “mystical” writer. However, the story of his life and the direction of his creative search reveal a completely different wr...

The book includes excerpts from memories of F. M. Dostoevsky, fragments of correspondence, rare evidence that recreates the true outline of his biography. On...

This book contains excerpts from the memories of A. A. Akhmatova’s friends, relatives and friends, her own diary entries - those documentary evidence that al...