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The book of the series 'Children's Encyclopedia ROSMEN' introduces the world cultural and natural heritage of mankind. It tells about the famous monuments of art and architecture, both modern and extant, from centuries ago, and about amazing natural landscapes preserved in different parts of the world.

The novel 'They Stole Us. A History of Crimes' is a new generation detective story. Honest, clever investigators do not work in it, a class that has practically disappeared from us. This is a story in which victims do not want an investigation, and there is a reason for this. But what kind of reason is this, readers themselves will understand by the end of the novel: after all, in each of us is...

A romantic story about how brave and noble heroes - the tightrope walker Tibul, the little dancer Suok, the gunsmith Prospero and their friends - helped the people overthrow the cruel oppressors - the Three Fat Men.

With care for your eyes! Large-font edition for easy reading. The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the most popular novels by Alexandre Dumas, is a stunning success with readers. The author took its plot from the archives of the Parisian police. The real life of the shoemaker François Picot, who became the prototype of Edmond Dantes, was transformed under the pen of a real artist into a gripping...

What is the power of the mighty boas over the naive, simple-minded rabbits based on? On fear - blinding, irrational, paralyzing fear. What is the idea of a furiously brave rabbit who tried to throw off this bloodthirsty power based on? On a simple denial of fear - after all, how can you intimidate those who, in principle, have nothing to lose? But why are the rabbits even more dissatisfied with...

A tragic incident pushes him to choose a profession - he becomes a doctor. Only again everything is like many others: medical school - private clinic - devoted wife...Ogarev accepts the rules of the game of an adult, but... life again presents him with something unexpected - love for a strange girl, for whom the main thing is freedom from everything and everyone, including from life itself...’

Lazar Lindt, a brilliant scientist and a big child, ‘a lawless comet in a circle of calculating luminaries’, is the center of the infernal personal stories of three extraordinary women. The childless Marusya, the wife of his older friend, will fall in love with a funny young man who appeared on the threshold of her house in 1918, not at all filial love, but it will remain his secret. After the...

The novel is based on real events. One and a half thousand kilometers of railway were laid by prisoners from the northern Urals to the lower reaches of the Yenisei through the taiga and swamps. The ‘Great Stalinist Highway’ turned out to be unnecessary as soon as its ideological inspirer died, but over four years, enormous resources were thrown into its construction, the most valuable of which...