Pyotr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) is an amazing, but in some ways very typical figure in Russian history: a prince from an old family who became a revolutionary, a scholar and encyclopedist immersed in politics, an anarchist who sharply criticized violence and the ‘Red Terror’. He became famous as a geographer and explorer of the North, a historian and philosopher, a literary critic and...

Kokkinaki was perhaps the leading Soviet test pilot setting many world and Soviet records. He worked for several design bureaus, including theIlyushin Design Bureau , where he served as its chief test pilot. He also established the shortest flight route between Europe and the United States. He died in 1985.

From Amazon: John Fowles gained international recognition in 1963 with his first published novel, The Collector, but his labor on what may be his greatest literary undertaking, his journals, commenced over a decade earlier. Fowles, whose works include The Maggot, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Ebony Tower, is among the most inventive and influential English novelists of the twentieth...

Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov wrote their report ‘Luzhkov: The Results’ at the end of 2009. Luzhkov and his wife, billionaire developer Elena Baturina, sued Nemtsov over it, but they failed to refute most of the facts presented by the ‘perpetually dissenting’ opposition figure. And when Yuri Luzhkov began to obviously irritate President Medvedev – especially after the mayor refused to...

This true story is a multifaceted picture of modern Russia and Europe, a financial thriller, and a tragicomedy of how life throws together human fates and ambitions to keep this world revolving. Dmitry Pototskiy, a Moscow ranking official, abandons his career in government and returns to the business world. Now his challenge is to find access to unadvertised, high-yield Trade Programs that...

The book tells a story of the famous Russian family of Riabushinsky, their struggle with the government in 1917 and subsequent emigration to Paris.

Sidonie C. was born in 1900 and became particularly well-known for being sent to Dr. Freud as a young woman in order to treat her homosexuality. She became a famous case documented by Freud. With vivid language, Ines Rieder and Diana Voigt tell the eventful story of a strong-willed and fascinating woman from an upper-class family whose life was profoundly shattered by the expulsion and...

Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungarees, a star-spangled T-shirt, and boots with wings. Elton John had arrived and the music world would never be the same...

He is recognized as a great inventor and one of the founders of modern electrical engineering, but it is unlikely that only these merits could generate a huge interest in both his work and his personality. He earned millions, but died in poverty, patented more than 800 inventions, but he was considered the 'greatest charlatan' and 'genius madman', was at the origins of the invention of radio...

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...