From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was hospitalized in the United States, his wife Maria Novikova told TASS. Doctors assess Yevtushenko’s condition as serious. In 2013, Yevtushenko suffered amputation of his right leg. The operation was necessary because the titanium plate that the poet was inserted to replace his worn ankle joint caused inflammation. In 2015, to eliminate problems with his heart rhythm, Evgeniy had a pacemaker inserted.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Vsevolod Emelin, Alexander Livergant recall Natalya Traumberg April 1 marks eight years since the death of Natalia Leonidovna Traubberg, in the translations of which we read Chesterton, Woodhauz, Lewis, Ionesko, Pirandello and many others. “Gorky” asked to tell about Traubberg her friends and colleagues. Alexander Livergant, translator, editor -in -chief of the magazine "Foreign Literature" We met Natalya Leonidovna in the early 1980s under business circumstances.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The author of The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell, died on July 11 last year at the age of 66, writes The Guardian. Nine months later, this became widely known through the credits of the documentary about his life, American Anarchist. The cause of death was a heart attack.

Deservedly forgotten books: “Conspiracy against Russia” by Sergei Norka The state does not need an honest Soviet officer in 1991. And he goes to Baghdad to teach Iraqis, battered by American bombing, how to fight. There he reads Saddam's intelligence reports on the state of affairs in Russia. Things are sad. Even Saddam's people are laughing at us.