This is a collection of lectures by a famous Russian literary scholar, based on a course given in 2017 for the educational project “Magistery”. This publicat...

The life of Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938), the most significant poet of the 20th century, bright, short and tragic, continues to excite every new generation of...

Oleg Lekmanov is a literary critic, professor at the School of Philology, Faculty of Humanities, National Research University Higher School of Economics, aut...

This book about Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925) is a new, unbiased look at his dramatic fate. Here the circumstances of his life are examined in detail, in which ...

Irina Odoevtseva’s memoirs “On the Banks of the Neva” have been read and reread for several decades, but the riddles and secrets have not yet been revealed. ...

From the moment of its first publication, the memoirs of V. P. Kataev caused fierce controversy, which has not subsided to this day and which the authors of ...