Mark Talov (1892-1969) was a poet and a translator of European poetry into Russian. He grew up in Parise and his friends were K.Balmont, A.Modigliani, Merezhkovsky, Mandel'shtam, Akhmatova, M.Gorky, Breton, and many others. Book contains rare photographs and documents.

This book presents readers with an 'epistolary' look at Ilia Ilf. This first unabridged edition contains letters to his wife and friends, which were written over a 15 year period (1921-1936). There are no letters to Evgenii Petrov, however, since the two were practically never parted. The envelopes have stamps from Odessa, Moscow, Leningrad, and also cities in Europe and the United States....

Albert Camus: his life, his work, his impact on the literature. Biography and peculiar facts.

Great love stories of the famous people we all know, what they did for love, what happened with them and what is their true story. As always, an intellectual Boris Burda finds a story behind textbook history and tells us what truly happened.

Since his speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Obama has captured attention as reporters, politicos, and ordinary citizens have wondered if he might be the nation's first black president. Chicago Tribune reporter Mendell argues that although Obama's rise to the national stage might seem unplanned, it is the outcome of a carefully calculated strategy by an ambitious man. Mendell...