The most poignant book about love from Edward Radzinsky. “Every morning, when I wake up, I choke on my own breath... I feel your lips with such physical real...

This was the century when money came to France. When courage and loyalty begin to give way to wealth. The first oligarchs in history were Cardinal and Minist...

This is a story of Love and Hate. What is this terrible feeling? What does it eat? On what soil does it grow? What does it do to people and their feelings an...

From the personal decree of Empress Catherine II to the Governor-General of St. Petersburg, Prince Aleksandrovich Golitsyn: “Prince Alexander Mikhailovich! R...

A brilliant composer and a child of the Gallant Age. It was the age of salons, where refined women ruled, the age of adventurers and tireless heartthrobs, th...

The History of Alexander II is the final part of the “Three Kings” trilogy. The last Tsar Nicholas II, the first Bolshevik Tsar Joseph Stalin and, finally, t...

And again the same night appears - the finale of the history of a three-hundred-year-old empire in a dirty basement. And again the Tsar falls backward, and t...

I started reading... It was a shock: the whole monstrous night of July 17, the execution, the two-day fuss with the corpses was described in detail and dispa...

In the early morning of December 19, a floating corpse was discovered on Malaya Nevka near the bridge. He surfaced terribly - his pulled-up shirt froze to hi...

The mirage of imperial Petersburg, the luxury of Romanov's palaces... and the sad Petersburg of Dostoevsky, the wretched apartments of terrorists, where thes...

The book includes the drama of the Great French Revolution in three acts.

For three hundred years there has been an endless debate... Voltaire, who seemingly unraveled the mystery of the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas, who followed him...