“There is something iron in Asimov’s entire stocky figure. Wild will in Tatar or Mongolian eyes with slits up. Dick, unsociable..."

“100 Tales of the Peoples of the World” is a unique book that contains the most fascinating and interesting tales and legends from all over the world. The bo...

“Tema's Childhood” is an autobiographical story by the remarkable Russian writer of the late 19th - early 20th centuries N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky. The story o...

“Walnek-Walnovsky was...Who was not Valnek-Walnovsky in his lifetime? His entire past was a motley pile of some kind of rubbish...”

“After a four-hundred-mile journey on horseback, I finally reached Kazan at twelve o’clock at night...”

“Deaf midnight. The manor's estate sleeps in the snowdrifts. It’s as if riots of some folded goods lie under these snowdrifts, and the night watchman, an old...

“The heat is unbearable. It burns as if it were burning, as if you were standing, engulfed in fire on all sides, and in vain you were greedily catching a liv...

“...When the door opened and I entered the dining room, Natalya Alexandrovna screamed and stared at me with her big black eyes...”

“I just graduated then and went into the army as a young engineer officer...”

“There was a conversation about: is it scary or not to die?...”

Myths and legends of the peoples of the world are the greatest cultural heritage of mankind, interest in which has not waned for many centuries. And not only...

“May, bright, washed morning. The sun is looking for young green grass, but it will hide for a long time under the reliable cover of spreading, shady trees.....