The famous critic Pavel Basinsky made the only attempt in recent decades to recreate a complete biography of Maxim Gorky (1868–1936). The life of the outstan...

Dozens of memoirs have been written about Leo Tolstoy, including those of his closest relatives; the smallest facts of his biography are reflected in hundred...

The publication was prepared for the 80th anniversary of the Roman Newspaper, which was created in 1927 on the initiative of A.M. Gorky.

Literary crit...

“The Midday Demon” is a fascinating story about an orphaned young man, John Polovinkin, who was born in the USSR, raised in the USA by adoptive parents and r...

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in Russia there were two places of mass pilgrimage - Yasnaya Polyana and Kronstadt. Why did crowds of people go sp...

Pavel Basinsky, bestselling author of Leo Tolstoy, has written a new book, defining its genre as a “fake novel.” This is a novel-game, a parody, a puzzle, wh...

Maxim Gorky is one of the most complex personalities of the late 19th – first third of the 20th centuries. And today he remains a mysterious figure, largely ...

In 1869, a third son was born into the family of Lev Nikolaevich and Sofia Andreevna Tolstoy, who was given his father’s name. To be the son of Tolstoy, the ...

This is a game, an experiment, a literary hooliganism, which turned into a relevant novel about today's Russia with 24 writer's voices. Authors - well-known ...

In his new book, Pavel Basinsky continues his literary investigation. Re-reading the most mysterious work of Leo Tolstoy, his drafts and diaries, Basinsky tr...

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy's wife, Sofya Andreevna (1844–1919), even during her husband's lifetime, became no less a legendary person than he himself. Newspaper...