Portraits of Russian writers in one album 1888

Quotes from foreign writers about Russian literature

It is not without reason that Russian literature is considered one of the greatest in the world. It is not the first century that foreign writers admit that it was the works of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and other classics that had the greatest influence on them and formed their author's style. In our selection - Fitzgerald, de Saint-Exupery, Bukowski and Murakami talk about their acquaintance with the works of Russian authors

XXII century through the prism of science fiction writers: prophecies of writers

Technology advances so fast that we often can't keep up. Very soon, humanity will be able to turn other worlds into gardens of paradise and wipe entire continents off the face of the Earth with a snap of the fingers. Our friends from "Eksmo" have collected for you the most interesting works on the coming century and the problems that it will bring

How writers become villains

The last Soviet soldiers leave. Died Vladimir Sergeevich Bushin. Awesome person. Front-line writer. Poet. An excellent and ruthless publicist. He never tired of debunking his most authoritative contemporaries - Granin, Solzhenitsyn, Likhachev, Sakharov and others, whom today it is customary to almost worship

Quirks and eccentricities of thinking of Russian writers

Why did Bunin look for ham at night, how much lemonade did Pushkin drink, and why did Nabokov need lined cards?

Even writers-historians are now being dragged to court for the word "Jews" in Russia

In modern Russia, the word "Jew" has become "the profanity of the Russian language", and after the 1917 revolution, Russian people were simply shot for saying this word out loud