She is a modest St. Petersburg teacher with the name Samsut, which is unusual to our ears. Armenian, Russian and Ukrainian blood was intricately mixed in her...

Russian fantastic prose of the Silver Age still remains terra incognita - a blank spot on the literary map. Many wonderful works by both prominent and less f...

According to fellow science fiction writers, Sheckley was the foremost troublemaker in science fiction. The humor and irony that fill his stories, novels and...

King Charles Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786), known in history as Frederick the Great, was King of Prussia from 1740 until the end of his days. The peopl...

The book tells about amazing phenomena in the water areas of our planet. Are there underwater monsters, giant squids and snakes, 20-ton jellyfish? What is th...

The idea of socialism was theoretically justified more than 150 years ago as a counteraction to capitalist society, but today it seems to have lost much of i...

A fascinating biography of the ever-memorable archpastor in the memoirs of clergy, his son and a large number of people who knew him.