“They admired Catherine, just as we admire an artist who reveals and evokes hitherto unknown forces and sensations for us; I liked her because through her th...

A brief sketch of the work of the almost forgotten Russian writer of the 19th century Ivan Kuzmich Kondratiev - an afterword to the collection of his two nov...

The textbook is devoted to key issues of culture, which is analyzed as a complex multi-level system, including various spheres: customs and morals of peoples...