Not long ago, Republic-Weekly released a special issue about detective stories. Today Republic publishes a dizzying essay by Kirill Kobrin about how Conan Doyle reinvented English literature by crossing detective stories with thrillers, why the 19th century ended with the first phrase from the story “The Man with a Cut Lip,” and how this half-forgotten story reflects all the problems of today.

David Bowie was born on January 8, 1947, and died on January 10, 2016 - 10 years ago. But the Bowie myth continues to live even after the musician’s death - only in 2025, David Stiasny’s ​​film “Bowie: The Final Act” was released, the Arte channel released its tribute film to the anniversary of his death, and the artist’s 80th birthday coming a year later will certainly be celebrated on a grand scale.

Kirill Kobrin Prior to the beginning of a full -scale war in Ukraine and subsequently in the Middle East, the attention of the reading public often occupied cultural wars. The angry public was in a hurry to cancel the artists, writers and enlighteners of the past, whose biographies, by the standards of modern man, were not accurately.

Euro coins On January 1, 1999, one of the most daring and, perhaps, the most successful experiments in the modern history of economics and finance was launched. The euro was introduced as a common currency for all countries of the European Union. Many economists predicted its imminent collapse, but the euro overcame any skepticism and, more than 25 years later, remains one of the strongest world currencies.

Kirill Kobrin The publishing house "New Literary Review" represents the book of Cyril Kobrin "On the way to isolation. Diary of the pre -Russian years (+ quarantine epilogue). " Before the SARS-COV-2 virus sent humanity under house arrest, historian and writer Kirill Kobrin spent time in constant movements-between internal China and polar Norway, the American middle West and Russian Volga, between Riga, London, St. Petersburg and other points on the map.

V.I. Lenin on Theater Square in front of the troops going to the front, 1920. Photo: TASS At the end of 1916, Vladimir Lenin, who was then in exile in Zurich, admitted in an interview with a young friend of the struggle, they say, we, the “old people” (there were 46 years old), will not see the next revolution in Russia during his lifetime, but it will certainly be - and now you will be lucky to see and do it.

In the “sentimental journey” of Viktor Shklovsky, the best book about the Russian Revolution, the most incredible chapter - about the adventures of the author in Persia, where he turned out to be the commissar of the Russian army in the fall of 1917.

In February 2014, David Bowie was awarded the Brit Awards music award as the best male artist. Former Ziggi star dust, which had long been shut in private life in New York, had not gone to the ceremony, but asked Kate Moss to get a figurine for him, as well as to read out a short speech on behalf of his behalf. Speech was quite unexpectedly crowned with the phrase “Scotland, Stay with us!”. Then Scotland really remained with “us”, that is, with the UK, which was still part of the European Union.

On September 12, a large demonstration was held in London in support of refugees from Syria - and against the anti -migration measures of the British government. The event was organized at once by several left -wing groups and a number of humanitarian organizations. The action was held on the eve of the speech of the prime minister of the country David Cameron about the crisis with refugees in Europe. Show more To curtail

In London, Russian officials and millionaires prefer to settle - or, which is much more common, just buy real estate - in the west of the city, in Chelsea, Kensington, and Nightstridge. Here's what you can see during a small walk with a camera in some of these places.

"After a month or a month and a half, the Petersburg 1st guild was paid by the merchant Nikolai Romanov, who was frightened by the competition and the publication in the statements, paid, at the highest command of Rothschild, illegally detained money with interest and interest on interest, making excuses for the ignorance of laws, which he really could not know by his public situation." This poisonous passage can be read in the 39th chapter of the fifth part of the "past and thoughts" of Herzen.

How Brezhnev created the main holiday that Putin did from it, and why Europe is surprised at this On the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazism and the end of World War II in Europe, we are talking about the cultural meanings of the 1945 victory, in which the memory of the war exists in public consciousness in different parts of Europe, and that this indicates the current state of minds. The guest of the project Europe is a culturologist, Doctor of Philology Alexander Markov .

What is more natural for the relations of Russia and the West: allies or the Cold War? On April 25, it turned 70 years old to a significant symbolic event: at the end of World War II on Elbe, in the area of the small town of Torgau in Saxony, units of the Soviet and American army met. Thus, the contacts of the allies happened, who ended the defeat of Nazi Germany.

"Memory Politics" from Kyiv to London: who deserves the monument and in whose honor the streets need to be called? Project participants in Europe are discussing Ukrainian "Laws on decommunization" and quirks of erecting monuments and renaming geographical objects in different countries.

Poland and Russia against the backdrop of two sad anniversaries For the outgoing week there were two sad anniversaries regarding Russia and Poland, their difficult relationships in the past and in the present. It turned 75 from the moment the execution of prisoners of the Polish officers of the Stalinist NKVD began in 1940.