Станіславів кінця ХІХ – початку ХХ століття. Звичайне місто на кресах «щасливої Австрії», в якому живуть, страждають, нероздільно закохуються, захоплюються наукою і шарлатанськими виступами всесвітньо знаних ілюзіоністів, розважаються на балах і карнавалах, ходять на шпацер і ховають таємниці у різьблених комодах. І на тлі епохи, яка для нащадків щораз більше обростатиме міфами про ідилічне...

Every time the streets erupt with communist demonstrations. The director of the Viennese police receives a message that at the same time two young states, the Republic of Poland and Soviet Russia, are demanding the extradition of a certain Adam Vistowicz, the chief commissioner from Lemberg, Galicia. Why did a humble policeman interest the highest diplomatic circles? Will it be possible to...

1905 year. The career of one of the best investigators of Galicia, Lviv commissioner Adam Vistovych, is on the rise. In order to help his younger colleague, Associate Professor Samkovsky, the commissar takes on a seemingly trivial matter. However, it turns out that its threads stretch far beyond the borders of Lviv and even beyond the borders of the empire.

The novel ‘Shoes of the Mother of God’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios tells about one of the most painful tragedies of the 20th century in the territory that historian Timothy Snyder calls the ‘bloodlands’. This is a new edition of the work with new episodes.

The 1930s, the times of Stalinist repressions. A young man sentenced to 25 years for love of his homeland escapes from the stage echelon of the NKVD, which transports exhausted and desperate people to a slow death in the Gulag camps. A townsman, an aircraft design engineer, finds himself in a forest thicket teeming with predators, without a map, weapons, tools, warm clothes or even food.

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following.

The cult novel by George Orwell, one of the main anti-utopias of the 20th century. A creepy and frightening text that has not lost its relevance even 70 years later. For the first time, 1984 is published in Russian in a new, complete, uncensored and cuts, translation by Daria Tselovalnikova.

Zusammen mit Dichterinnen und Denkern geht es durch die Straßen Wiens: Mit Stefan Zweig besichtigen wir das Wiener Konzerthaus, Ingeborg Bachmann zeigt uns das Ungargassenland und auf ein Stück Sachertorte treffen wir Friedrich Torberg. Und auch Klaus Mann, Robert Seethaler und Arthur Schnitzler wissen allerlei zu erzählen. Ob flanierend oder vom heimischen Lesesessel aus – anhand von...

Ein einzigartiges Panorama des Berliner Lebens in der Nazizeit: Hans Falladas eindringliche Darstellung des Widerstands der kleinen Leute avancierte rund 60 Jahre nach ihrer Entstehung zum überragenden Publikumserfolg in Deutschland und der Welt.

Гадаєте, маленьких читачів можна зацікавити лише пізнавальними книжками про комах і птахів, про життя в минулі геологічні епохи або про космічні дива? Леся Мовчун розповідає про мову так захопливо, що діти неодмінно захочуть дочитати книжку до кінця!

In this book you will find the most necessary grammatical topics, a large number of examples with translation into Russian language, Georgian-Russian and Russian-Georgian dictionaries, which will become assistants in learning the language. Thanks to visua

The Glass Bead Game is an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by the scholars, creamed off in childhood and nurtured in elite schools, in the province of Castalia. The Master of the Glass Bead Game, Joseph Knecht, holds the most exalted office in Castali