From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Cheboksary festival of contemporary poetry “Voices-8” will take place on March 25 and 26. Project curator Alyosha Prokopyev announced this. https://www.facebook.com/kurt.winterhaus/posts/10212786120354723 The GolosA festival has been held since 2008 once a year or once every two years. In addition to Cheboksary, its participants visited Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod. The curator of the festival is translator and poet Alyosha Prokopyev.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Enlightener literary award opened its tenth season and began accepting applications. This is reported on her website. The competition is open to popular science books on any topic that are in primary sale, regardless of the date of publication, as well as manuscripts being prepared for publication.

How animals enhance the library experience The Rosizo Museum and Exhibition Center will receive the House of Books pavilion at VDNKh. TASS reports this, citing Rosizo director Sergei Perov. The new owner plans to open a bookstore and a venue for lectures and seminars in the pavilion. According to Perov, the new location will open in late fall. For now, Rosizo is preparing a long-term lease.

Interview with Orhan Pamuk On February 25, Orhan Pamuk spoke in Yasnaya Polyana - in the fall of 2016 the writer received the Yasnaya Polyana award for the book “My Strange Thoughts”, and now he came to the Tolstoy estate to give a public interview. The conversation was led by journalist Alexander Gavrilov. Gorky publishes the text of this conversation. All those years that I read your novels, I have saved thoughtful aesthetic questions.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The former head of the technical and economic support department of the State Archives of Saratov, Alexei Polynin, stole pre-revolutionary books and sold them on Avito at a price of 500 to 1000 rubles. The press secretary of the regional prosecutor's office, Tatyana Kazachenko, told the Public Opinion publication about this. In ten days, Polynin stole 46 books, the total value of which is estimated at 1 billion 234 million rubles.

“Chinesist” Chizhova, “Brezhnev City” Idiatullina, “Ivan Auslander” Sadulaev Gorky opens a new section: now a review of the new products of modern Russian literature will be released twice a month. In the first issue - three novels for February: (without) the alternative history of the USSR, in a good way, a nostalgic novel about Soviet childhood and Hinduism for dummies, pretending to be a novel about modern Russia. Shamil Idiatullin. The city of Brezhnev.

From Saigon prison to de Gaulle's office: an amazing biography of Andre Malraux At the Pushkin State Museum on February 12, the exhibition “Voices of the Imaginary Museum of Andre Malraux” ended, which showed more than 800 works illustrating the concept of the French writer, military pilot, Resistance fighter, Minister of Culture and reckless adventurer.