Series: Rossiia zabytaia i neizvesntnaia. Beloe dvizhenie

The book is dedicated to one of the largest archaeological monuments of the Crimean Mountains - the 'cave city' of Eski-Kermen, which arose in the Middle Ages. Eski-Kermen has been the subject of many articles in scientific journals, as well as separate chapters in scientific monographs and guides to the 'cave cities' of Crimea. However, a book entirely dedicated to Eski-Kermen had not existed...

This novel is a new creation of the author of 'Black on White' (Booker Prize in 2003). All the action of the novel is developed in one room of the Soviet House-boarding school for disabled, where two friends live. As helpless people they are fully isolated from the outer world and taken a bad care of. All they do is talking and playing chess. All life seems to them a chessboard on which each...

This book covers the defensive period of the Battle of Stalingrad – one of the decisive battles of the Great Patriotic War and the entire Second World War. It examines the crucial decisions of the German and Soviet high commands and front commanders that determined the outcome of this great struggle. It explores the clash of military doctrines, strategies, and plans of the German and Soviet...

Gilyarovsky was undoubtedly one of the brightest figures in Moscow at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. From it, Repin painted one of the Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan. He was not only a Moscow legend, but also a chronicler of Moscow.

In light of the current struggles in the Caucasus, the author reviews the wars of the 19th century, the struggles between the mountain tribes of the Northern Caucasus under the leadership of Imam Shamil and the forces of Tsarist Russia.

Series: Velikaia Otechestvennaia: Neizvestnaia voina. The author examines several controversial questions about World War Two on the Russian front. The major question that has been debated, could the USSR have stopped the Germans before they reached Moscow and Stalingrad?

Originally published by the University of California Press in 1961, the author examines the appearance and development of mounted soldiers in Ancient Greece.

The author writes about the little-known Azerbaijani Democratic Republic and its relations with the new state of Soviet Russia. Both governments arose from the collapse of Imperial Russia in 1917.