The action takes place in our days. This is a story about two friends - Volodya Semenov and Kostya Lugansky. Kostya is a rower who aspires to join the nation...

The monograph highlights the key moments of the socio-political development of Pskov in the 11th–14th centuries. in the context of its relationship with the ...

A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in No...

Scary and funny, short and not so, fantastic stories about the horror lurking in the walls of an old communal apartment, about how a person looks at the wrec...

The book offered to the reader is devoted to one of the most difficult issues in the formation of Kievan Rus - the question of the calling of the Varangians ...

The Viking Age was the main shock for Europe at the end of the early Middle Ages. However, the “sudden” start of the Scandinavian campaigns to the West was n...

In distant, very distant times, old people—“the grandfathers of our grandfathers’ grandfathers”—possessed unheard-of power, were almost equal to the gods, an...

In his book of memoirs, Vladimir Nikolaevich Pykov, captain 1st rank, commander of five ships of the Northern Fleet, talks about the ways in which he came to...

What secrets does the northern outback of Sweden keep? How does Norrland live? Whispered Stories from the North will take readers on an exciting journey that...