Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (1743–1816) is a gigantic figure in the history of Russian classical literature. But the milestones in his destiny were, perhaps...

The great master of paradox, Britain's wittiest sage, Bernard Shaw was not only a playwright, but also a thinker who was perhaps the first Western intellectu...

This book is a classic of practical political thought. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev led the Soviet Union for 18 years at the time of its greatest power. And, dying...

OBKhSS is a unique, the only special service in the world that fought against the most dodgy criminals of the Soviet era - the trade mafia, speculators and c...

This book is dedicated to the most mysterious pages of history. The reader will see a series of peoples born mainly on the territory of modern Russia. How di...

Field Marshal Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky is one of the most glorious commanders in the history of Russia. More than once he managed to ...

Alexei Rykov (1881–1938) headed the government of the Soviet Union for almost seven years, and before that he was the de facto leader of the Council of Peopl...

Pushkin became a national treasure during Soviet times, when his books appeared in every home. In this book, you can find out first-hand for the first time h...

Spring 1941. There is a distinct smell of big war in the air. Enemy agents are sharply intensifying, hunting for military secrets of the USSR and planning te...

The outstanding Russian thinker, theorist of space exploration, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, left an extensive legacy. He turned out to be a real prophet. Both Se...

This book shows the context of the Patriotic War of 1812 and the triumph of the Russian army in foreign campaigns, which ended with the capture of Paris in t...

Continuation of the exploits of the legendary Major Pronin, who inspired B. Akunin to create his “Spy Novel”, on which the television series of the same name...