When is an imitation good enough?

Private Kolya Lavochkin, better known in the magical world as Baron Nicholas the Mighty, boldly goes to the very heart of the Black Kingdom to fight the Lord...

If Olga Boykova, the editor-in-chief of the Witness newspaper, knew that she was talking with a killer, surely the next crime could have been prevented... An...

Retired lieutenant Ray Saleh leaves the army, leaving his left leg, hair, a couple of square meters of skin and a gentle character on the battlefields. Now l...

This man has never traveled, he comes to the station to look at the locomotive, and at home he draws it, repeating the details and lines with many sketches. ...

Today you will only see steam locomotives in a museum, but just a hundred years ago they were the main means of transport on Earth and were considered an out...

A broken down starship landed in Guslyar. The Guslyar residents are ready to help, but they believe that the alien should know everything about his car. Afte...

Essay by Yulo Tuulik from the literary and journalistic magazine “Vyshgorod” No. 6 for 2011, heroes - Yuri Lotman, Lennart Meri, Natalya Gorbanevskaya

Zinovy Netrebin, to his misfortune, fell in love with a beautiful, but painfully insidious woman, Natalya. On the orders of the thief in law, Chernyak was fr...

“The House on the Tail of the Locomotive” is a literary guide to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and an expedition to the cities of Denmark, Switz...

William Saroyan's stories invariably charge the reader with optimism and the belief that everything in life is surmountable. He shows the world through the e...