“The reaction that we had to endure obscured the face of life that had just awakened from us. Before our eyes are several generations who have despaired of t...

“Twenty years have passed since the physical death of Vladimir Solovyov, that is, the period of time is completely insignificant from a historical point of v...

“As soon as I learned from the newspapers the news of the death of Vera Fedorovna Komissarzhevskaya, I realized what she was for all of us, what we were losi...

“Belgium is a small country with a big history. Its history is how this small country, squeezed from the south, west and east by powerful powers, and from th...

“My friend, who returned from Stockholm the day before Strindberg’s death, brought me a large portrait of him. I look at these working shoulders, at the unru...

“Terribly contemptuous and biased attitude towards the matter. However, it is not Merezhkovsky’s fault that his personal topic prevents him from paying any a...

The incomparable Dracula instilled in the reading public a taste for vampirism. Many are no longer able to cope without regular infusions of fresh blood, obt...

Reverent hymns in honor of the incomparable Lady, poignant poems about Russia, poems from the famous cycles “Poems about a Beautiful Lady”, “Snow Mask”, “On ...

“Rumors and rumors were already spreading throughout the city that he had violated the solemn oath he had once taken and had irrevocably surrendered himself ...

“We Russians are quite often and in some respects correctly compared to the Italians. One smart German, a cultural historian of the last century, says about ...

“In our time, the question of the existence of theaters maintained at the expense of the state is again being raised. I believe that state theaters should ex...

“We sat at sunset with the whole family under the linden trees and drank tea. Behind the lilacs, fog was already rising from the ravine. You could hear the s...