Nowadays, in the Bernadotte family, if we go from its founder, Napoleonic Marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, there are seven kings and about one hundred and t...

The book by one of the leading researchers of modernity, professor of sociology at the University of Munich, Ulrich Beck (b. 1944), is devoted to a critical ...

Magnus Florin's novel The Garden (1995) is a fusion of documentary and fantasy. Its main character, Carl Linnaeus, is far from his real prototype, although t...

The characters in the story “Summer Sketch” by Christa Wolf, trying to get away from the bustle and problems of city life, buy houses in the village and begi...

In a small provincial town there lived two people: a boy who was destined to be a baguette maker, and a girl who had already become a famous singer as a chil...

Maria Yalovich (1922–1998), the daughter of a Jewish lawyer, managed to survive under National Socialism by hiding from the authorities in Berlin. After libe...

A detailed chronicle of the growing up of a girl from a church-going family: Orthodox gymnasium, weekly confessions and the constant oppression of awareness ...

Nina Fedorova (Antonina Ivanovna Podgorina) was born in 1895 in the town of Lokhvitsa, Poltava province. She spent her childhood in Verkhneudinsk, in Transba...

Nina Fedorova (Antonina Ivanovna Podgorina) was born in 1895 in the town of Lokhvitsa, Poltava province. She spent her childhood in Verkhneudinsk, in Transba...

Nina Fedorova (Antonina Ivanovna Podgorina) was born in 1895 in the town of Lokhvitsa, Poltava province. She spent her childhood in Verkhneudinsk, in Transba...

The creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson, can rightfully be called one of the most mysterious writers of the last century. Laconically and honestly talking a...

For the first time in Russian - the newest novel from the author of the famous "Half-Brother", translated into more than 30 languages and becoming an interna...