The age-old wisdom of the peoples inhabiting the hot African continent is reflected in their legends, fairy tales and parables. People's first ideas about th...

The Quietest - with this nickname Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich entered Russian history. But the nickname, as is most often the case, is deceptive. The more than ...

The topic of power is one of the most pressing and inexhaustible in the history of Russia. Blind love for the Tsar-Father, the deification of the ruler and a...

The Battle of Poltava became the largest battle of the Northern War, which determined the future fate of Russia and Sweden. Peter walked to this brilliant vi...

All over the world, American science fiction writer Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) is recognized as the best master of humorous fiction and an excellent short s...

All over the world, American science fiction writer Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) is recognized as the best master of humorous fiction and an excellent short s...

It can be said without exaggeration that Robert Sheckley and Isaac Asimov, Harry Harrison and Paul Anderson, Robert Howard and Clifford Simak and ten other g...

According to fellow science fiction writers, Sheckley was the foremost troublemaker in science fiction. The humor and irony that fill his stories, novels and...