Never before have Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky written documentary prose - only fiction. We never kept diaries. But the invasion of Ukraine changed everything. These diaries are not the fantasy that Oldie is used to. A different language, a different style - to match the circumstances.

Ihre Gäste und ihr Gespür für die Wiener Gesellschaft haben sie berühmt gemacht: Anna Sacher, legendäre Chefin des Hotel Sacher zur Zeit der Jahrhundertwende. Das Hotel wird zur Bühne, auf der sich alle begegnen: Kaiserin Sisi, Kronprinz Rudolf, Schnitzler, Klimt, Mahler, die Rothschilds und Wittgensteins. Die Geschichte eines außergewöhnlichen Lebens und zugleich ein Stück europäische...

Passport to Paris is a witty, pleasantly chatty, richly detailed memoir of a life in emigration and of a dual career in the ‘serious’ and ‘popular’ music worlds. It provides one of the most vivid and refreshingly buoyant accounts of the perilous exodus from the collapsed Russian Empire undertaken by some two million people during the late 1910s and early 1920s, and also includes rare intimate...

The World of Yesterday is Stefan Zweig’s hauntingly beautiful memoir of Europe before its fall — a moving portrait of art, culture, and humanism destroyed by war. Both a love letter and a farewell to a vanished world, The World of Yesterday remains one of the most powerful autobiographies of the twentieth century. Its themes — humanism, tolerance, the dangers of nationalism — are as urgent...

The memoirs of Marshal Kirill A Meretskov describes the most important military actions of the 20th century in the history of the USSR: starting with the Russian Civil War, service fighting the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, the Winter War with Finland and service during World War II, including the Japanese front.

The report that Nemtsov and Milov have prepared in 2009 reveals the politics of Moscow mayor, Iury Luzhkov. Authors tried to attract attention to Luzhkov's projects and the damage he caused to the city. This report was widely used in media when Luzhkov was expelled from his position as the long-serving Mayor of Moscow.