Ніколи раніше Дмитро Громов та Олег Ладиженський не писали документальної прози — лише художню. Ніколи не вели щоденників. Але вторгнення в Україну все змінило. Ці щоденники — не фантастика, звична для Олді. Інша мова, інший стиль, відповідно до обставин. Ці нотатки писалися в обстрілюваних містах, підвалах i бомбосховищах, евакуаційних поїздах i автобусах, на орендованих квартирах у...

Fate sometimes lifted him high, sometimes mercilessly threw him down. It seems that everyone knows everything about him - four times Hero of the Soviet Union, hero of Mongolia, outstanding commander, twice awarded the Order of Victory, Marshal G.K. Zhukov. But this is far from true. Zhukov can and should be approached in a new way, and many facts and events of his life should be objectively...

Never before have Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky written documentary prose - only fiction. We never kept diaries. But the invasion of Ukraine changed everything. These diaries are not the fantasy that Oldie is used to. A different language, a different style - to match the circumstances.

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...

Was wissen wir über Gefühle und Ängste unserer Großväter und Urgroßväter? Anfang der 90er Jahre hat Wolf-Rüdiger Osburg sich aufgemacht, die letzten Zeugen des Krieges aufzusuchen. 135 Frontsoldaten gaben ihm Auskunft und berichten über den Krieg in all seinen Facetten: schonungslos, detailliert und ehrlich. Erzählt wird von totaler Erschöpfung, von Hunger und Entbehrung, von der ständigen Nähe...

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.

Perhaps an alternative leader figure in Russian history, killed in a tragic helipcopter accident, General Lebed was a key player in several critical points in modern post-Soviet Russia. His forces protected Boris El'tsin during the anti-Gorbachev putsch, he was in charge of signing a peace treaty with the Chechens and a candidate for President.

Serhii Dukhno spent 25 days in the Azovstal bunker with his family. ‘Azovstal’ is his native enterprise, the whole family worked at this plant. At first they didn't think of running away from the city, but when a shell hit the playground near their house, leaving a huge hole, they decided to leave. Due to constant shelling, they could not use their car and reached the familiar and reliable...

The first, modern, post-Soviet biography of the scientist-encyclopedist and poet Mikhail Lomonosov, one of the main pillars of modern Russian culture. The author used not only archival materials and documents, but also the writings of Lomonosov's contemporaries to complete the picture of the man in the context of his time.

Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman’s soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the...