Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (1929–1974) is a charismatic figure in Soviet cinema and Soviet literature. They speak about Shukshin only with reverence, or at m...

Viktor Tsoi is one of the brightest and most dangerous discoveries that await every teenager in the Russian-speaking part of the world. Tsoi himself is quite...

Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980) is a giant of Russian-language mass culture, an extremely popular personality from the 1970s to the 1990s. Today, when the Inte...

This book is about how to live long and painlessly, without exhausting yourself with fasting, enemas, etc. It is not recommended for people who are prone to ...

The Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Romanovich Belyaev (1884–1942) created an entertaining and easy read without boredom. He almost looks like the So...

How to find time for pleasant and useful things. How to squeeze more out of your meager capabilities. How to make laziness your life style and raise it to th...

How to find time for pleasant and useful things. How to squeeze more out of your meager capabilities. How to make laziness your life style and raise it to th...

For superficial authors, he [Stanislav Jerzy Lec] is convenient as a source of epigraphs, because there is no need to READ anything from him, to isolate anyt...

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American writer whose style is said to have “significantly influenced twentieth-century literature.”

Choosing a field, getting married, getting a job, weaving intrigues, making friends and enemies, entrepreneurship, public speaking, political activity, writi...

The book sets out in a systematic form ways to protect against various harmful factors. Substantial and verified recommendations are given, the implementatio...

If a dog attacked you, but did not bite you (you managed to drive it away, for example, with a stick), then you do not even have the opportunity to complain ...