Vitaly Bianchi was and remains one of the most beloved, kind and humane children's writers. 'Translators from the wordless' - so he called himself and his associates, writing about the life of animals. Most of all, Bianchi loves to talk about those animals that anyone can meet in their garden, on the banks of a neighboring river, in the forests and fields of the northern and central Russian...

Arthur doesn't think he will ever have to return to the strange house that nearly killed him on Monday, the house that contains an entire world. But Tuesday brings new challenges in the form of an enemy named Grim Tuesday, who threatens the well-being of both Arthur's family and his world. Arthur must retrieve the Second Key from Grim Tuesday in order to save everything; an adventure that will...

The book of the famous Russian writer Leonid Panteleev (real name Aleksey Ivanovich Eremeev) includes fairy tales, as well as stories about children - 'Honest Word', 'The Letter' You ',' Coward 'and others that have long become classics and occupy a worthy place in golden fund of children's literature.

'There was a hole in the ground, and a hobbit lived in the hole.' These words were written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on the back of a school exam paper he was checking one hot summer day. And who would have thought that it was from them, like from a magic seed, that one of the most famous works of world literature would grow. This is a fairy tale that captivated both children and adults,...

'Gods of Mango' is the fifth part of 'Beastly Detective'. The Badgers of the Far Forest Police are sent on a business trip to the African savannah to investigate the case of the kidnapping of the cub of the Exquisite Giraffes, the newborn giraffe Rafik. Mortal danger accompanies the Badgers of the Police constantly. After all, the Far Woodland does not spare anyone: neither strangers nor its...

The Russian folk tale about the Snow Maiden is read with enthusiasm at any age. It is full of magic and slight sadness, because it not only tells the wonderful story of a tender and fragile snow girl, but also reveals the secrets of the world around it: the change of seasons, the struggle between cold and heat, the water cycle in nature. In the surprisingly harmonious and graceful drawings of...

The sugary, white Kremlin is the heart of Russia in the 2020s, which survived the Red, Gray and White Troubles, closed off from the outside world and plunged into sleep. its refined copy, but in fact it does not belong to anyone. Fifteen short stories from the collection 'Sugar Kremlin', written as if in completely different ways and about different things, add up to a picture of a ghostly,...

Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two residents remain: retired safety inspector turned beekeeper Sergey Sergeyich and Pashka, a rival from his schooldays. With little food and no...

As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today's crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only the latest in a long history of turmoil over Ukraine's sovereignty. Situated between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine...

Moscow, 2028. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull Andrei Danilovich Komiaga out of his drunken stupor. But wait, that's just his ring tone. So begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czar's most trusted courtiers, and one of the country's most feared men. In this new New Russia, where futuristic technology and the draconian codes of Ivan the Terrible are in...

The literary dormitory at Moscow University becomes a kind of Russian Grand Hotel, serving the last supper of empire to a host of writers gathered from every corner of the continent, and beyond. Young poets from Vietnam, Mongolia, Yakutia, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Ukraine assemble to study, drink, frolic, and explore each other and the decaying city around them. When the supper turns into a...