Watchman Nikolai Petrovich Nikonyaev helps Englishman Timothy J. Pringle open a bottle of beer in Alexander Park. He gains confidence in him and shows him a ...

The novel by L. M. Kokin tells about the main milestones in the life of Count S. Yu. Witte (1849–1915), the First Minister of Russia, about his difficult rel...

Kiri the lion goes to music class for the first time in kindergarten. How interesting is it what happens in the music room? And then there will be a holiday ...

The brilliant Malechka Kshesinskaya, prima ballerina and favorite of theatrical St. Petersburg, became the mistress of Nicholas II, and then of two grand duk...

Whoever picks up this book will read it without fail. There are no plot intricacies and no special claims to artistic expression, or those without which ther...

Matilda Kshesinskaya is known to the general public as a talented artist and favorite ballerina of the royal court. Her skill extended far beyond the art of ...

Wedding fever haunts a woman not only in the period after graduation and before her first marriage, but practically throughout her life. But what is marriage...

The famous English humorist Pelham Granville Wodehouse is the author of about a hundred books. The most beloved character by readers is Bertie Wooster - a tr...

Seventeen-year-old Matilda Kshesinskaya graduates from the Imperial Theater School and dreams of becoming famous and an adornment of the Russian ballet. Arou...

Who will explain why charming brides most often turn out to be bitches? This question has tormented men for hundreds of years. However, this does not reduce ...

The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African repub...