One day, an absent-minded Wizard lost his galosh, which had lived with him for so long that it itself learned to perform miracles. Going on a trip, Kalosha m...

“To get rid of the sin of pride, you will have to become lower than everyone, worse than everyone, dust at the feet of others,” this is the sentence the fair...

Elena Kryukova’s novel “Fair” is a tough, biting, vivid portrait of modern Russia. Maria Vasilyevna Stroganova, a former teacher, now a janitor. Her son Pete...

Paris and Baikal. St. Petersburg and New York. The White Sea and the steppes of Mongolia. Attend a concert of a young organist and experience the horror of d...

Where is the line between madness and genius? Patients of a psychiatric hospital in one of the cities of the Soviet Union. Do they have the right to life, lo...

Youth, revolution, grief, happiness, Russia. The present day of Russia through the eyes of its young people. The Lost Generation? Or those who defy time, pow...

The author belongs to a generation that experienced the war firsthand, and after the war, among other things, he served as the Austrian military attache in L...

In his documentary story “Burma. The Hell of a Half-Forgotten War,” the German Harry Turk, an excellent expert on the history of the war in Southeast Asia, v...

Elena Kryukova’s new novel contains ten stories, each of which is imbued with a love of life and the expectation of a miracle. One of the chapters is devoted...

The book includes funny stories about modern school. For middle school age. Literary and artistic publication. The book is a prize winner at the IV All-Russi...

Annotation to the magazine “Foreign Literature” No. 3 1992: Yes, the Prince of Denmark was right: there really are many things in the world that the sages ne...

Imagine that you suddenly find yourself in 1982, and even in the school where your future parents study. It's funny to talk to your father when he was the sa...