This book presents readers with an 'epistolary' look at Ilia Ilf. This first unabridged edition contains letters to his wife and friends, which were written over a 15 year period (1921-1936). There are no letters to Evgenii Petrov, however, since the two were practically never parted. The envelopes have stamps from Odessa, Moscow, Leningrad, and also cities in Europe and the United States....

Memoirs, diaries, essays on politics, music, and art.

From Amazon: John Fowles gained international recognition in 1963 with his first published novel, The Collector, but his labor on what may be his greatest literary undertaking, his journals, commenced over a decade earlier. Fowles, whose works include The Maggot, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Ebony Tower, is among the most inventive and influential English novelists of the twentieth...

Memoirs of the famous Soviet/Russian actor, Mikhail Ulianov.

A collection of letters written by Alla Demidova to Tom Bulter. They started writing in 1990, and their correspondence lasted 15 years. Tom Butler is a Harvard University professor and Alla Demidova is a famous Russian actress.

Full title: 'Boris Rabbot: An Unheeded Voice of the 1960s'. The volume includes most significant works written between 1960 and 2011 by a Russian emigre political scientist, sociologist, journalist and writer who was part of the liberal movement reform that preceded Gorbachev's perestroika, a group frequently ignored by historians. The volume includes excerpts from Rabbot's published and...

The book includes the memoirs of Mikhail Dmitriev (1796-1866), Russian poet and writer.

Петр Алексеевич Кропоткин (1842-1921) - удивительная, но в чем-то очень типичная фигура русской истории: князь из старинного рода, ставший революционером, ученый-энциклопедист, погруженный в политику, анархист, резко критиковавший насилие и ‘красный террор’. Он прославился как географ и исследователь Севера, историк и философ, литературный критик и автор блистательных ‘Записок...

В пантеоне выдающихся полководцев нашего Отечества князь Петр Иванович Багратион занимает одно из почетных мест. Потомок древних грузинских царей, любимый ученик Суворова, он был участником всех крупных войн своего времени, прославился во многих кампаниях и погиб от раны, полученной в Бородинском сражении, так и не пережив оставление Москвы. Его биография - это, прежде всего, история войн,...