Turgenev almost immediately took his exceptional place in the history of Russian literature. However, the nature of the great writer evoked either fierce rej...

The anthology includes memoirs of women who, at different times, were part of Sergei Yesenin’s circle and who influenced his life and work in different ways....

The book contains literary portraits of people who determined the culture of Russia with themselves and their achievements in the late 19th – early 20th cent...

Portrait gallery of cultural heroes of the turn of the century - a story about poets, artists, musicians, philanthropists, philosophers, actors, singers and ...

“Silver Age” is a unique collection of literary portraits of cultural heroes of the late 19th – early 20th centuries (poets, writers, artists, musicians, rep...

Bunin, a fragment of a great tradition, was one of the first in the “Iron” Age to find an artistic response to the time of indifference and lawlessness. Lost...

The book continues the series of documentary and biographical stories about the most prominent Russian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Carefully sele...

This book contains excerpts from the memoirs of M. Yu. Lermontov’s contemporaries, his friends and relatives. Behind the numerous voices, each of which claim...

The poet's contemporaries put Alexander Blok on a pedestal and never ceased to admire him. And not everyone saw him as a “passionate, impassive” hero of the ...

Mayakovsky, a giant, a tribune, by the will of the era and the authorities, has long been bronzed and petrified. But behind the monumentality hid the contrad...

Chekhov is one of those figures in the history of culture who always arouses genuine interest. What kind of person was he who did so much for the Russian ima...

Contemporaries wrote about the Russian “conquistador” that he believed in his mission as a poet-reformer, while possessing fierce pride. To some he seemed a ...