Theater between Hitler and Stalin

This reader presents an adapted text of the novel 'Princess Mary' by Mikhail Lermontov. The book is designed for foreign students learning Russian at the level B2. It includes lexical commentary, exercises, and illustrations.

Rasputin - a simple monk from Siberia or the devil? The scandal surrounding him and the Tsar's family only further undermined the final years of Imperial Russia.

The book actually contains two historical works on the history of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus.

The text is accompanied by unique photographs. Color illustrations are prepared on the basis of the documents and give an accurate representation of the characteristic elements of the SA uniform.

The book seeks to examine the secrets of the beginnings of WWII, about which historians and eyewitnesses have argued for over 60 years.

The author seeks to expose and inform the reader about little known facts from World War Two.

This book by the renowned writer and Captain 1st Rank Vladimir Shigin is the first to compile fascinating information concerning sea ghosts, superstitions, omens, mysterious marine UFOs, and other unexplained phenomena. It also explores how the names of ships mystically influenced their fates. Furthermore, based on unique documents from the Main Staff of the Navy and the Naval Archive, the...

General Claire Lee Chennault was one of the brightest and most controversial figures of World War II. Chennault was in charge of the XIV Air Force, and was famous not only for his military achievements, but also for his constant conflicts with commanders, which earned him a scandalous reputation. His memoirs about the events in the Pacific Ocean, written in a highly literary style, transform...

The Argentinean tango…a dance of passion and sensuality? A dance of passion and danger! A dance, which led a young ballerina into the embrace of a mysterious man, and opened the door for her into the captivating, exotic world of Argentinean bohemia… But suddenly her loved one disappears without a trace, and she sets off on searches for him. Searches which become more and more dangerous….

Historians Dominique and Janine Sourdel identify a classical period in Islamic civilization, beginning in 622 AD – with the preaching of Muhammad – and ending in the 13th century, the era of the disintegration of the great Islamic empire, which once stretched from Spain to India from west to east and from sub-Saharan Africa to the Black and Caspian Seas from south to north. This great empire is...