“The embankment of the Seine, where humpbacked book chests stretch, above which plane trees rustle lightly, is somewhat reminiscent of a cemetery... There, a...

“...Boyaryna Morozova and Princess Urusova are schismatics. They accepted all the torment for the simple fact that they were baptized with the same two-finge...

“Who hasn’t heard of Count Bruce - “these chicks of Petrov’s nest... And Bruce, and Bour, and Repnin,” but no one really knows anything about the count. I do...

“...Unloved, hunted, stinging, unbearably lonely Leskov cuts with a sharp angle into his era, which has already descended into nebula, and now it seems that ...

“...From the very beginning of his journey, Merezhkovsky seemed to have taken upon himself a vow of knowledge of God: as if he had never experienced the hone...

“...I can hardly, I hardly dare say even the most ordinary words about him. I think that Khodasevich was a real writer. These are two very simple words. But ...

“...Notes and documents about Catherine's revolution of 1762 could easily form a vast library - these events are so well known - but little-known documents a...

“In my travel box there are bundles of yellowed notes from old books and notes. In the notes, I wanted to preserve for myself those little things, that livin...

“...And he lay face down in the pillow. And he understood and remembered everything... Young blond soldiers, his infantry in leather shakos and gray overalls...

“...The war had already entered the slow life of people, but it was still judged by old magazines. I still half-believed that war could happen now, in our ti...

This is the first book by the Kyiv writer L. Lukyanenko. It included a novel, a novella and a short story, united by one idea: each person pays his own “fare...