Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is known throughout the world as the creator of the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Watson. Les...

Ernest Hemingway was and remains one of the most popular American writers in Russia. In the 1960s, a photograph of the bearded “Papa Hem” adorned the walls o...

H.G. Wells (1866–1946) is widely known as one of the creators of the science fiction genre, the author of popular, repeatedly filmed novels - “War of the Wor...

Don’t believe the title - this is not a documentary biography, this is a fantasy novel. Don’t believe the impression - there is no fiction in this novel, the...

It is better to read this wonderful writer not while running or on public transport, but, as the author advises, wrapped in a blanket, sitting by the firepla...

They wrote about him for a long time and a lot. He became an official idol. He was praised and denounced, idolized and hated. But no one has ever written THI...

We all love him, but we love him, confusing him with his heroes, as something incredible, fabulous - balls, carriages, swords, lace. But, if we look closer, ...

Everyone knows that Einstein was a great physicist (although it is now fashionable to doubt this). Beautiful, although now slightly outdated, books have been...

Stepan Razin is one of the most mysterious personalities in Russian history; Very little is known reliably about him, not a line written by him has survived,...