“Metro 2033” by Dmitry Glukhovsky is a cult science fiction novel, the most discussed Russian book in recent years. Circulation - half a million, translation...

The history of Russia could have taken a thousand paths other than the one we know. A collection of stories by leading science fiction writers, “The Turning ...

Charlemagne (747-814) is one of the most important characters in world history, no less significant than Alexander the Great, Elizabeth Tudor, Ivan the Terri...

For student Denis Verbitsky, his grandmother is his only relative. Trying to find money for her treatment, he becomes involved in drug trafficking and is for...

It is probably difficult to find a more controversial personality than Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556). The founder of the Jesuit order, an organization that ...

What do we know about him? The phrase “in short, Sklifosovsky”? “Sklif”, from which no one is safe, but which in a difficult situation can become a symbol of...

Among the saints, Francis of Assisi stands out as particularly popular. Dante Alighieri dedicated an entire chapter to him in The Divine Comedy, Franz Liszt ...

The figure of Dante is shrouded in an aura of mysticism, and his “Divine Comedy” continuously continues to excite minds. Modern writers, filmmakers and even ...