“In the 80s of the last century, I was lucky enough to communicate closely with Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya. This book is a tribute to the memory, respect a...

Matilda Kshesinskaya was a talented ballerina, prima of the Imperial Theater. The life of this amazing woman is reminiscent of an exciting novel: if she had ...

Her name was Elena Dyakonova. But she went down in history as Gala - the muse and wife of the French poet Paul Eluard, and then the Spanish artist Salvador D...

“Navel” are stories about our deepest desires, which are usually not spoken or written about, and which are not admitted even to ourselves. Vladimir Sorokin ...

Patriarch of Soviet classical philology, deep and original thinker A.F. Losev (1893 - 1988) for the first time introduces the reader into the world of his me...

This whole incredible story began with the fact that a certain boy named Danny accidentally found a biorobot in an ancient bunker. The human environment is o...

Not every adult and even very educated person knows what “toponymy” is. But toponymy surrounds us from the first days of life. Wherever we were born or live—...

This book tells the story of the history of the names of streets, squares, islands, bridges, rivers and canals of St. Petersburg - and through it the history...

The third volume of the collected works of the American writer Truman Capote introduces the reader to Capote the novelist: it includes selected stories from ...

Nevsky Prospekt, Basseynaya Street, Moika, Vasilyevsky Island, New Holland... - these names have long since gained worldwide fame. But why did they appear an...

We are all infected with the cult of power and the cult of violence: government, school, intellectual elite, business, pop music, church, ordinary people - t...