Thinkers from Socrates to Hannah Arendt in Illustrations AD Marginem Publishing House, along with the Museum of Modern Art, Garage, has released a series of children's books about the philosophy of Plato and Co. - Gorky selected the most entertaining illustrations of philosophers "Socrates in love" 1/4 “Agafon is happy to invite a politician to join the guests, but the drunk Alcibiades does not pay attention to him. Staggering and almost falling, he hugs Socrates.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Writer Marat Basyrov has died. Philologist Andrei Astvatsaturov reported this on his Facebook. Marat Basyrov was born in 1973 in Ufa. Graduated from the Technological Institute. Lensoveta, in 2004 he published the book “Championship” in the publishing house “Lenizdat”. He gained popularity as the author of the book “The Printing Machine”, published by the publishing house “Il-music” in 2012, which was shortlisted for the “Natsbest” award in 2014.

How Ludwig Wittgenstein traveled to the Soviet Union Few people know, but in 1935 the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein visited the Soviet Union with mysterious goals: he was going to quit philosophy and get a factory worker or doctor, either teach philosophy in Kazan, or go on an expedition to the Far North. Gorky investigated the circumstances of the thinker's trip.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The all-Russian public organization “Association of Teachers of Literature and the Russian Language” proposed creating a linguistic police in Russia that would protect the Russian language from the dominance of foreign words, the Moscow city news agency reports . Chairman of the executive committee of the association, member of the Russian language council under the president, Roman Doschinsky, referred to foreign experience.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" In the Zolotukhinsky district of the Kursk region, restoration of the estate of Afanasy Fet has begun, ITAR-TASS reports . Previously, it housed a rural school, but in 2010 the estate was transferred to the Kursk Museum of Local Lore, and it was decided to make the estate a cultural monument.