Books X and XI of the Mahabharata describe the events taking place immediately after the end of the great battle of the peoples of the entire Indian subconti...

This publication is the first complete translation into Russian of the Rig Veda, an ancient collection of poetic hymns addressed to the gods of the Aryan tri...

This publication is the first complete translation into Russian of the Rig Veda, an ancient collection of poetic hymns addressed to the gods of the Aryan tri...

This publication is the first complete translation into Russian of the Rig Veda, an ancient collection of poetic hymns addressed to the gods of the Aryan tri...

The eighth book “On Karna (Karnaparva)” is one of the most representative among the battle books of the ancient Indian epic “Mahabharata”. In addition to des...

Bhishmaparva is the sixth book of the Mahabharata. With it begins the description of the great battle of Kurukshetra, which forms the central part of the anc...

This book is a continuation of many years of work begun at the Russian Academy of Sciences more than half a century ago to create a complete, academic transl...

When Spanish priests arrived in Yucatan in the 16th century, they found hundreds of books and burned them. One of the types of chronicles of the ancient peop...

The Little Flowers of Saint Francis (I Fioretti di San Francesco) is a medieval Italian florilegium consisting of 53 chapters recounting various amazing, mir...

The Didache (or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) is one of the most precious literary monuments of early Christianity. This unique text, written in the last ...

Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (1831-1894) is an outstanding Russian artist who made a huge contribution to the development of realistic painting, as well as portrai...