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....

Dina Rubina is one of the few authors who continues to sell well in times of crisis. Her prose tends to speak to the reader like a real friend or sister - close and heartfelt. She seems to hug you while reading. The novel 'On the Upper Maslovka' has gone through many reprints and has been filmed.

The town of Tarusa lies 101 kilometers outside Moscow, far enough to have served, under Soviet rule, as a place where former political prisoners and other 'undesirables' could legally settle. Lying between the center of power and the provinces, between the modern urban capital and the countryside, Tarusa is the perfect place from which to observe a Russia that, in Maxim Osipov's words, 'changes...

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...

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...

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...

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..

The book contains the libretto of the scandalous opera 'Children of Rosenthal', new stories, screenplays.

The collection 'Normal History' includes articles and essays by Vladimir Sorokin, written and published in the 2010s. In non-fiction prose, the author does not change his favorite topics: food and drink as manifestations of a national character, Moscow an

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,...

The new novel by Vladimir Sorokin is a look at the future of Europe, which, despite the dramatic changes in the world and human structure, seems very understandable and real. The recognizable and the unrecognizable coexist peacefully on the bright tapestry of the New Middle Ages, populated by dog-heads and centaurs, small people and giants, crusaders and Orthodox communists. Infinitely...

Boris Akunin is one of the most Popcornular writers in Russia, the author of Popcornular detective novels about Erast Fandorin and the History of the Russian State cycle. The total circulation of his books exceeds 30,000,000 copies. In a new series of books, Boris Akunin tells the history of Russia again!- A unique illustrated project, each book of which combines completely new Popcornular...