Thirteen-year-old Zhenya was raised by her aunt in England. Returning to Russia, to her family, makes a strong impression on the girl: the foundations of the...

Josephine Tay (real name Elizabeth Mackintosh; 1896–1952) is a famous writer, the daughter of a Scot and an Englishwoman, and a recognized master of the Brit...

The age of the soul, money blocks, level of vital energy... Just ten non-obvious questions will help you look at yourself in a new way. Character traits and ...

The story about the hero of the Great Patriotic War Gula Koroleva, about her childhood, school years, about how she visited Artek, how she acted in films, ab...

Elena Ilyina's story about how Katya Snegireva and her friends lived and grew up day after day during one school year.

Elena Ilyina is the pseudonym of Liya Yakovlevna Marshak, the sister of Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak. She has written many stories, poems and fairy tales for c...

The book includes two stories by E. Ilyina - one about peacetime, the other about war. Different heroes, different destinies, but how similar their character...

This publication collects and comments on the most complete corpus of correspondence between the philosopher Lev Shestov (1866–1938) and the psychoanalyst Ma...

Ahasferus, or the Eternal Jew, is a character in a Christian legend that arose in the late Middle Ages. In the novel of the same name by the French writer Eu...

Emile Zola (1840–1902) was a French writer, publicist and political activist. One of the most significant representatives of realism of the second half of th...

The fairy tale, in a humorous form, tells the story of the period of growing up of one young man, who, against his will, had to find himself without comprehe...