History moves with heavy steps, and it is not so easy to move it from the intended path. But when did these difficulties frighten Alexander Volkov, who was c...

On the pages of this book, dramatic pages of the history of the 16th–17th centuries come to life: the plague in Genoa and the fires of the Inquisition in Spa...

This book was created over ten years from a diary. The diary was written in quotes mainly while climbing high mountains. You will be inspired to come up with...

Adversa fortuna.Latin saying. Saltpeter loader is one of the prestigious and well-paid professions, but it is also very difficult and dangerous. An athlete -...

The final book of Rafael Sabatini's trilogy about an Irish doctor who, by chance, became a famous pirate. This time Peter Blood comes to the aid of the new g...

USSR 1986. The famous writer of Soviet detective stories Svetlitsky did not suspect that he would have a “black” follower. Liteysk was shaken by a series of ...

1920. Rostov is devastated by civil war. The city is in chaos and rampant crime. The Soviet police are only in their infancy - yesterday's peasants and worke...

The anthology includes rare works by Western writers from the second half of the 19th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Among the authors the...

From time immemorial, witchcraft has frightened and at the same time fascinated people: from ancient times they wrote spells, turning them to the gods, belie...

Out of 365 nights a year, only one is truly magical and meaningful for everyone. After the chiming clock, crowds come out onto the streets flooded with the b...

A disconsolate widower decides, with the help of modern advances in genetic engineering, to clone his early deceased wife, who is 10 years younger. Having br...