Lenin was a great cyclist, philosopher, traveler, joker, athlete and cryptographer. What he was not was a pleasant conversationalist, but if God up there in ...

While still in manuscript, this book was included in the shortlist for the 2007 Big Book Award. “The Man with the Egg” is the first Russian biography, not in...

The book by the famous critic Lev Danilkin (Afisha magazine) includes articles and reviews written in 2006. The author talks about the general trends that ha...

Polls show that Yuri Gagarin is the main hero of Russian history of the 20th century. It is all the more surprising that for many years in Russia an adequate...

There is no such book and such writer that Lev Danilkin, the brightest book critic of Afisha and a legend of the two thousandths, would not write about! For ...

London - according to Julian Barnes. A collection of essays that critics have called "the most vivid and accurate portrait of Britain at the end of the 20th ...

Polls show that Yuri Gagarin is the main hero of Russian history of the twentieth century. “Yuri Gagarin” by Lev Danilkin is an attempt at a “final”, if poss...