One of the most significant East German writers, Brigitte Reimann (1933-1973) wrote irreverent, autobiographical works that addressed issues and sensibilities otherwise repressed in the GDR. Outspoken and idealistic, she wrote in her diaries that she would rather 'live 30 wild years instead of 70 well-behaved ones.' Considered a master of socialist realism, she heeded the state's call for...

Fedor Fedorovich Sviridov is a very successful and successful person, but terribly lonely. Having lost almost everything overnight - the house, the family where his beloved daughter remained - he takes in an orphaned dog named Apelsinych. And then two loneliness met and selflessly fell in love with each other. But a charming flutist appears in the life of Fyodor Fyodorovich..

A collection of poetry.

Sergei Esenin is one of the most tragic Russian poets of the 20th century. It was he who expressed the tragedy, crying, confusion of the ancestral Russia, when in the seventeenth year the connection with its thousand-year history was interrupted. He is the most mysterious poet. A peasant son, for more than ten years (from the rapid entry into literature to the tragic death), he found himself in...

The Tale of Khoja Nasreddin is a wonderful book that takes pride of place in the treasury of Russian literature, based on the folklore of Central Asia. The adventures of a cheerful, cunning tramp, the hero of many anecdotes, parables, fairy tales, have long gained worldwide fame. Driven by hatred for the greedy rich, fed at the expense of the common people, he uses all sorts of tricks to...

‘Count T. heads towards a mysterious area called ‘Optina Pustyn’. Bypassing all sorts of obstacles, he is steadily approaching the goal, however, seeing neither the meaning nor the reasons for his dangerous journey. However, soon he will have to doubt not only the illusory nature his mission, but also in his own reality, and at the same time in the reality of the entire surrounding world. Count...

The main thing is not to know, but to believe. Faith is higher than knowledge. Otherwise, why would God create such a complex Machaonine as man? Why stretch it through the years, through trials, through love? To then be thrown from the tree of life and trampled? And where do our tears, our happiness, our everyday work go? .. All my life I have been striving for something: love, fame, wealth....

They confess their love to us, wiping their saliva on our dress suit and leaving traces of dirty paws on a white shirt. And one of the most interesting ideas for expressing our feelings when we are not at home is to make a nest of pants, socks, tights and sweaty T-shirts. Nature endowed them with paws, teeth and a sense of smell, although sometimes they mainly consist of only one nose. They...

Strange things are afoot in the cosmopolitan city of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air smells salty, though Lviv is a long way from the sea.