“August Porn” is the author’s first appearance in our collection. Despite the banal title, this story is an amazing mixture of mysticism, absurdity and horro...

Two sisters, two elderly women, talk about their mother on the anniversary of her death. She died after falling down the stairs in the bathroom - she was abo...

At noon on August 25, 1968, eight people went to Red Square to protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The book by one of the participants in ...

“August the Fourteenth” was conceived by the author in 1937 - not yet as the First Knot, but as an introduction to a great novel about the Russian revolution...

The fighting at Lake Khasan began on July 29 and actively continued until August 11, 1938. The subject of the dispute was a small section of USSR territory o...

Should we remember the past?5-7Atrocities: what will God do?8-11How much interest do young people have in religion?FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN FRANCE.12-14Cros...

The book is dedicated to the life and work of a man who played a decisive role in the history of the Roman state. Augustus was the creator of an imperial reg...

The stories and short story by Yuri Goryukhin were written over the past ten years. Sad irony, cheerful self-irony, dense, ascetic language, smooth transitio...

Youth and first love... Summer, walks in the rain and reverent confession. Everything seems perfect, but what can prevent such dazzling happiness? Fear, doub...

Sicily is the birthplace of beautiful women and fine cuisine. Inspector Montalbano would gladly devote himself to both, occasionally pausing for melancholy i...