“...Let us not naively think that only deeply religious people became monks. On the contrary, behind the walls of Russian monasteries, freethinkers looking f...

“...On a distant outskirts, in the province of Penza (God, what a wilderness it was!), there lived a landowner Semyon Smagin, the owner of six hundred souls....

“...Since ancient times, humanity has tried to solve a complex problem: how to distinguish a decent woman from a corrupt one, especially since all women wear...

“...Russian newspapers remained silent about this shot!L. G. Senyavin informed Count Vasily Perovsky, the Orenburg governor-general: “The reason for the suic...

“...For many years I looked for and found in my library information about fatal fires in Russia that destroyed entire cities and were preserved in people's m...

“...According to contemporaries, none of the portraits conveyed Bestuzhev-Marlinsky’s true appearance. “He was a rather tall man with a thick build, a brunet...

“...Ivan Trofimovich Durnov was a small artist, but a conscientious man. He understood that it was impossible to edit and finish what a genius had started. T...

“...There were no climbers then, and there was no equipment with which sports masters now storm vertical cliffs. Pyotr Telushkin is just a roofer! - I unders...

“...Pushkin jumped off the windowsill, but he was somehow different from the one who came to Demuth today. He ran his palm over his face, as if wiping away a...

“...On the blue collars of the sailors of the Russian Navy there have long been three white stripes - as a sign of the victories at Gangut, Chesma and Sinop....

“...Six rearing horses pulling the chariot of Victory over the abyss became for Klodt his first and inspired impulse to world fame and widespread fame. Nobod...

“...I would like to tell you here about Zhukov what I know about him, and most of all he is known for his love...It is somehow customary for us to talk more ...