“Children's Library” is a series of excellent children's books with incredible stories, fairy tales and short stories. The twenty-fifth volume includes fairy...

Evgeny Petrovich Karnovich (1823–1885) is an outstanding Russian historian and writer. The author of many interesting works on Russian history, he is also kn...

When selecting factual material for this article, we used the archives of the Underwater Research Section of the Oceanographic Commission of the USSR Academy...

The Germans dubbed them “black devils” and “black death”. Their battle cry is “Polundra!” terrified the enemy. They had no equal in hand-to-hand combat. Thei...

The work of Tommaso Landolfi (1908-1979), whom critics unanimously single out as one of the key figures of world literature of the 20th century, a subtle mas...

Yuri and Olga are leaving for Cyprus to relax after the Moscow events. But there they accidentally meet the brother of Shah, who was killed by Olga. Now the ...

Isaac Asimov and William Tenn, Robert Sheckley and Robert Silverberg, Bernard Malamud and Isaac Bashevis Singer... The golden pens of American science fictio...

The book “Alexander III and His Time” can be called, without exaggeration, an encyclopedia of the historical life of Russia in the 1880-90s, and its signific...

The Dry Cargo Mountain Market lived its own measured life, and nothing foreshadowed that terrible incident, which was then only gossiped about by seagulls in...

Syoma Kippen has disgraced himself again, and now to the whole city... Having fallen under the influence of a mysterious millionaire, the owner of the newspa...

Independent journalist Semyon Kippen finds himself in the thick of a struggle for a certificate of honor between “most worthy” people - social activists, off...

This author's collection of Gordon Dixon includes two of his cycles: "Dorsai" and "Dragon and George". However, Dixon’s work is by no means limited to the th...