Russian Emperor Paul I ruled for a short time, but all his life he dreamed of taking revenge on his mother Catherine II, who seized the throne with the help ...

Nadya woke up on a straw bed in a miserable hut. She remembered last night, waking up in a strange cabin, the pirate attack on the cruise ship. I remembered ...

Amateur detective Nadezhda Lebedeva, despite her husband’s obvious disapproval, got involved in another investigation. This time everything is very serious -...

Crimea, 1919. The flames of the Civil War, whites, reds, greens, Greek smugglers and Turkish spies, Georgian abreks and Tatar militants... It is here that Bo...

After the defeat of the White movement, aristocrats who fled from the Red Terror, military officers who survived the flames of war, fanatical monarchists and...

Paris...The city where thousands and thousands of Russian emigrants finally found refuge...But in France no one cares about their fate. Here counts and princ...

Many legends exist both about the most ancient people - the Vepsians, and about their mysterious treasures and countless treasures. Thus, according to one le...

As a child, Ivan the Terrible discovered a ring made of dull dark metal with the image of the face of a scary, narrow-eyed old man. By putting the find on hi...

The navigator Christopher Columbus had one and only dream - to find a direct and safe route to the land of dreams and wealth, India. According to astronomers...

Guy de Maupassant (full name Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant) is a French writer, essayist, author of short stories and novels, one of the great represen...

The Great Master, the author of a huge number of books, he equally famously wrote both one-page stories and multi-volume sagas. Combining the gift of a popul...

The famous jeweler Miller, commissioned by a wealthy client, made a collar with a priceless emerald for her dog. But the dog didn’t have time to push herself...