The chairman of a half-plundered collective farm, with an iron fist - for which he was nicknamed Pinochet - trying to preserve at least something in the comm...

In the book of a famous Russian historian of the 19th – early 20th centuries. A.P. Lebedev included a number of essays from the life of the Ancient Church (t...

Patriarchal morals reign in the ancient estate of Lions Fortune. It was here, after experiencing a dramatic break with her lover, that Ada Toynber found her ...

This book, unlike other similar scientific books, has a main character - a doctor who has learned to treat almost everything. His different approach to the w...

Francis Dick is the author of a series of best-selling novels exposing criminal groups who make millions by cheating on horse races. Passion for the golden c...

This book is a kind of challenge to the reader, because it invites us to recognize that the world as we know it will come to an end in the near future. But, ...

Tsarevna Sofya Alekseevna is one of the most mysterious figures in Russian history. In a patriarchal country where a woman’s public activity was unthinkable,...

The book by the outstanding Russian historian of Antiquity Vladislav Petrovich Buzeskul (1858-1931), first published in 1909, can be called one of the most s...

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov (1879–1950) is a Russian Soviet writer, author of the famous Ural fairy tales that made up the book “The Malachite Box,” beloved by ma...

This country has a fictitious name, but the hero of the novel, policeman John Leroy, is a real person. He loves his job, sincerely considers the police a str...

Historical novel about the adventures of Phoenician sailors.

This publication is a collection of stories by the Russian science fiction writer A.P. Kazantseva. It includes stories about life in the Far North.