This story inspired Hans Christian Andersen to write ‘The Little Mermaid’! A cult story about love and betrayal, written by a classic of foreign literature, Friedrich de la Motte Fouquet. More than 7 operas have been written based on history, and more than 10 feature films have been shot. This story lives on in thousands of stories about mermaids, sea maidens and water spirits who, by...

Gilyarovsky was undoubtedly one of the brightest figures in Moscow at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. From it, Repin painted one of the Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan. He was not only a Moscow legend, but also a chronicler of Moscow.

Golden cut, bookmark, excellent gift edition! Published in 1919 and based on a Burgundian tale, this book was also the inspiration for the opera by Dmitry Kabalevsky.

Stefan Zweig was enchanted with Mary Stuart, whose life he perceived as immensely paradoxical and from whom he perceived a ‘inexhaustible attraction of mystery.’ Thus, he investigated the queen of Scotland and Elizabeth I's fierce rival through the lens of a novelistic biography. Zweig is the undisputed master of this genre: he meticulously details the tumultuous life of this amazing woman, who...

A classic of Russian theater, the play, based on an actual event, highlights the tragic tale of a woman, scorned by her lover decided to marry someone else. Her new fiance proves to be an embarassment and she returns to her old lover, hoping to wed. He's turns her down, as he is already engaged to someone else. Feeling dejected she contemplates suicide, only to be murdered by her drunk, jealous...