Vera Inber (1890–1972) is better known to readers as a poetess, but her prose was also very popular in its time. For a long time, the work of V. Inber was un...

Written in 1942, the poem “Pulkovo Meridian” is dedicated to the feat of besieged Leningrad.

“It turns out that houses change color from the gases of the blast wave: this is how a person’s face changes from shock.” The diary entries of the Russian po...