"The History of the Ten-Year Swedish-Muscovite War" by the royal historiographer of Sweden Johan Widekind (1618-1678) is published in Russian for the first t...

When the tortured corpse of the 82-year-old artist Peng was discovered in Vitebsk, his student Marc Chagall was in his Parisian mansion. However, investigato...

Few people know that the investigation into the abduction in 1904 of the greatest relic of Rus' - the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God - is not closed to this...

A guide for beginning treasure hunters. After reading this small and fascinating book, you will acquire all the necessary knowledge for a successful search f...

For many centuries they lived together on a beautiful island. It was one pack, one community of equals. They had everything for happiness: an abundance of ea...

In Europe, Isaac Babel was called the “Russian Marquis de Sade.” In his stories, sadism was elevated to an absolute cult. Ironically, this writer was torture...

On May 19, 1984, in a somnambulant state, a member of the USSR national football team, Valery Voronin, entered a beer-drinking station on Avtozavodskaya Stre...

On the early Epiphany morning of 1971, a half-dressed and obviously drunk woman was running along the central street of Vologda. Seeing the policeman, she ru...

This novel is a sweet balm on the hearts of those whose childhood and youth were spent in “stagnant” Soviet times, in a small provincial town in the sixties ...

Georgy Stepanovich Zhzhenov spent many decades searching for the scoundrel who, with his denunciation, sent him to Stalin’s camps. And - found... “It would b...

Don Juan. Adventurer, spy, traveler, liar, blackmailer... and the famous lover of “all times and peoples.” This book is the first documentary novel about the...