The author of the book is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, who served with his battery from Leningrad to Berlin. ‘I had already adapted to firing for effect with the entire battery without preliminary sighting. This time I quickly ‘caught’ my bursts, made some adjustments, and switched to firing at the target with rapid fire. The first salvos sent fountains of black, greasy earth and fire...

This book by noted military historian A Shirokorad, examines the relationship between Russia and the former republics of the USSR. Some of these new countries were territory that had been considered Russian for centuries before the creation and dissolution of the Soviet Union.

In the present work, in fact the first time, a description of all military campaigns Russian sailing fleet of more than 160 years: the war for Tsar Peter I and the Azov campaign to Russian squadrons to the shores of the United States during the Civil War between North and South.

The author of the book began the war as a tank commander (KV-1S) and then served as the commander of a series of self-propelled artillery units (SU-122, SU-85) and ended the war commanding a T-34-85. He fought from Stalingrad to Koenigsberg.

The author was a Moscow literary critic, historian of Soviet literature, and writer. This book is a collection of articles, essays, feuilletons of the 80-90s, which the author describes in the forward: 'That was a time of hope, many of which, if you look from today, were not destined to come true. And although I never thought that the way out of that monstrous historical impasse into which the...

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.