Anatoly Kurchatkin's novel, set in Russia and Thailand, ranges in time from the Brezhnev years of political stagnation, when Soviet values seemed set to endure for eternity, through Gorbachev's Perestroika and the following tumultuous and disorientating decades. Under the surface, ancient currents are influencing the destinies of mathematician Rad, art gallery owner Jenny, entrepreneur (and spy?) Dron, American investor Chris, redundant Soviet diplomat Yelena and Thai playboy Tony in a rapidl...

Some time in the 1970s, Konstantin Alpheyev, a well-known Russian musicologist, finds himself in trouble with the KGB, the Russian secret police, after the death of his girlfriend, for which one of their officers may have been responsible. He has to flee from the city and to go into hiding. He rents an old house located on the bank of a big Russian river, and lives there like a recluse observing nature and working on his new book about Wagner. The house, a part of an old barge, undergoes stra...

The origins of the modern world and traces the chronologies and histories of peoples and countries. The main centers of influence and forces that shape the world in which we live...

Joyful Solitude explores both the effects of the global pandemic upon people of faith and how best to respond to the challenges and crises in our lives. The Apostle Paul, a prisoner facing the threat of Roman execution, authored epistles calling the faithful to rejoice despite living amidst the direst circumstances. Combining theological research and sincere storytelling, Deacon David offers a way to experience this joy by immersing ourselves fully into the liturgical and sacramental life of ...

Книга погружает в мир тех, кто решил идти за Христом. Эти рассказы далеки от общепринятых представлений о монашеской жизни. В них – свет и молитва, труды и мысли, драгоценность сердца автора. Тонкий юмор и глубина рассуждений дарят душе тихую радость. Этот мир наполняет се...

Сказки сейчас считают несерьезным жанром литературы, примитивным, способным научить лишь детей основам морали. В умах людей сказка противопоставляется реальной жизни. Однако, если изучить историю литературы, то мы заметим, как часто авторы прибегали к сказочному сюжету...

The Stone Bridge tells the story of Terekhov's decade-long investigation into the case of the 'young wolves', and reveals some of the secrets behind the Kremlin's private school, a direct line to the Communist Party elite. The search for truth of the Stone Bridge incident requires the reader's patience: the historical authenticity of this work is supported by testimonies of witnesses trying to avoid an uncomfortable interrogation, supported by illustrations, documents and chronicles.On June 3...

Hryhory Skovoroda is considered by many as the first great Slavic philosopher and poet. Written over a period stretching from the 1750s until 1785, his The Garden of Divine Songs is a unique collection of 30 poems, featuring a complex system of strophic structures and with only a few of the songs written in a traditional way. Skovoroda never repeats one and the same strophic structure; this being the case, his Garden of Divine Songs according to writer-scholar Valery Shevchuk functions as a "...

Maksym Rylsky (1895-1964) is one of the most outstanding Ukrainian poets of the the 20th century and master of the genres of the modern sonnet and the long narrative poem. He was closely associated with the Neoclassicist group of Ukrainian poets, who employed traditional poetic forms with rhyme and meter, wrote in a clear and accessible contemporary idiom, and often referenced Ancient Greek and Roman mythology as well as numerous other authors from world literature in their poetry. Rylsky was...

Ukrainian poet Attyla Mohylny (1963-2008) died prematurely at the age of 45. He completed his philology degree at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University and worked mostly as a teacher, editor and journalist during his abbreviated lifetime. He authored two books of poetry early in his career: Tumbler Pigeons above the Rooftops (1987) and Contours of the City (1991) along with the text for the exquisitely illustrated children's book Mavka and the Ant King in 2006. He continued to work on writi...