Russian rulers throughout the 16th and 17th centuries chose their wives using a complex ritual known as the viewing of brides. The most beautiful girls of Mu...

The author provides in the book the biographies of 100 outstanding personalities who had the greatest influence on the course of world history and the develo...

In 1918, Vladimir Nabokov and his brothers and sisters posed for a photograph. It happened in Crimea, where the young Nabokovs fled from St. Petersburg. In t...