Misia Sert, who inspired the most outstanding people of her time, received the title of “devourer of geniuses” from the French writer Paul Morand. Renoir and...

In 1947, on the shores of the Dead Sea, a shepherd boy discovered a cave containing ancient scrolls. Two years later, in a village near Thebes, two Egyptian ...

Edward Sylvester Ellis (1840–1916) was an American writer. Author of Westerns, science fiction novels, and history books. The novels “Pontiac the Chief of th...

An instructive and exciting book about the brain - an amazing instrument with inexhaustible and far from unraveled possibilities. Tracing human life from con...

In 2007, journalist Sascha Battyany (b. 1973), a descendant of a noble Hungarian family, learns that his great-aunt, Countess Margit Thyssen-Battyany, was in...

The story is dedicated to the life and work of Ivan the Terrible, his struggle to strengthen the Russian centralized state.

This book belongs to the typically monastic genre that emerged in Byzantine literature in the 5th century. and reached its peak in the 7th–8th centuries. In ...

“The word is given to teachers not to lull their own thoughts, but to awaken someone else’s” - this aphorism of the outstanding Russian historian Vasily Osip...