A condensed version of the famous 4-volume dictionary by Ushakov. This version contains words in their modern spelling. Over 70 000 entires. White paper.

We were music in the ice…’ – this is how Pasternak described the fate of the generation that in the twenties had to ‘move from lyric poetry to epic poetry’. It was then that he created great works, thoroughly imbued with the revolutionary element: the poems ‘High Disease’, ‘The Year Nine Hundred and Fifth’, ‘Lieutenant Schmidt’. The time demanded an epic genre, and Pasternak accepted this...

Philological observations and literary criticism written in different years.

A serious research of the last year of Dostoevsky's life. It sheds light on the drama of his life, death and the mystery of his departure.

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...

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of ‘the disease of modern man' in the manner of a composer—themes and characters are...

The author, who was one of the leading researchers of Russian cinematography, examines the depiction of Jews in Russian Film from 1919-1999.

The highest military decoration in the Russian Empire, and in the Russian Federation after 1994. The order was created by Catherine the Great in 1796.

Rudolph Peterskhagen was a colonel in the Knights Cavalier and was gravely wounded near Stalingrad. After his recovery he was named commander of the city of Greifsvald [Neuenkirchen, Germany]. In the spring of 1945, not wanting more senseless death, Peterskhagen gave the city to the Red Army. This was the only instance in which the Red Army took a city without combat. In the early 1950's,...