Serhii Dukhno spent 25 days in the Azovstal bunker with his family. ‘Azovstal’ is his native enterprise, the whole family worked at this plant. At first they didn't think of running away from the city, but when a shell hit the playground near their house, leaving a huge hole, they decided to leave. Due to constant shelling, they could not use their car and reached the familiar and reliable...

Rasputin - a simple monk from Siberia or the devil? The scandal surrounding him and the Tsar's family only further undermined the final years of Imperial Russia.

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.

'It turns out that houses from the gases of the blast wave change color: this is how a person's face changes from shock.' The diary of the Russian poet and translator Vera Mikhailovna Inber tells about the hard days of the war in the period from 1941 to 1944 and fully conveys the tragedy of besieged Leningrad. Sagging legs are from fear when a bomb explodes nearby. Laughter and tears are from...

The Ninth Circle is a story about punitive psychiatry that arose in the USSR at the initiative of F. Dzerzhinsky in the early 1920s. Decades passed, and thousands of completely innocent people sat in Soviet special hospitals and nothing changed. The journalist and human rights activist Viktor Davydov knows firsthand about the existence of special psychiatric hospitals: he himself was their...

Memoirs of Georgii Svetlanin, the actor, who also was a play partner of the Russian Prince Alexey when he was a child. The volume includes many photographs.

Splits in the beginning of the century Russian army into two - white and red generals eventually destroyed Russian statehood and themselves. At the end of the century the army, this time Soviet, split again, and again the sad result was the loss of the state. In both cases, the favorite weapon of the generals were denunciations and treachery, perjury and defamation.