The Strogonov family played a huge role in the development of the country. By the beginning of the 20th century, their possessions were second only to the Ts...

Every new lady of Vasya is a fatal brunette. The red-haired bitch torments the lover Kolya all his life, and Vanya is lucky: he has a brown-haired wife, kind...

Thomas Pynchon is, along with Salinger, “the great American recluse,” one of the greatest writers of world literature of the 20th and now 21st centuries, aft...

Christopher Renshaw Bunch was born in Fresno, California in 1943. American writer - author of serial novels and film scripts. Better known as Chris Bunch. As...

The collection includes the early stories of the Great Master of SF, but already in them Simak creates his own - extraordinary and yet surprisingly similar t...

This volume contains works by different authors dedicated to the work of the state security and intelligence agencies of the USSR at different times in histo...

The monograph characterizes Boris Pasternak’s prose as a whole, from youthful passages and letters to stories and the novel “Doctor Zhivago.” The generality ...

The history of the First and Second World Wars is difficult to imagine without the submarine warfare waged by their participants. Submarines immediately esta...

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898–1948) is considered one of the greatest directors of world cinema throughout its existence. In addition, over the past d...

The adventure story of a military pilot who crashed his plane over the Siberian taiga, and many months of survival in the wild on the way back to people.