From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Literary critic and translator Fyodor Kapitsa died at the age of 67 after a long lung illness. The press secretary of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Svetlana Popova, reported this to Interfax. Fedor Sergeevich Kapitsa was born in 1950 in Moscow. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State Pedagogical University and postgraduate studies at the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Dutch-American director Paul Verhoeven will make an erotic film based on the book “The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy” by historian Judith S. Brown. This was reported by The Variety. In the story, a nun living in the 17th century tries to get rid of religious and erotic visions. Her companion, who helped get rid of her illness, becomes the heroine’s mistress. The painting was called “Blessed Virgin”.

Why is the umbrella is vodka, and Faulkner is a mint Julep: what and how the bartenders read Gorky continues the cycle about the practices of reading different social and professional groups: we have already published monologues of the Ural workers , former prisoners , authors of the Translit Almanac and Pankov . This time, at the request of Gorky, Ekaterina Kolpinets talked with the bartenders of Yekaterinburg, St.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Thirteen-year-old Aisha Esbhani from Pakistan has launched a project in which she promises to read one book from every country in the world. To do this, she created a page on Facebook where anyone can help her with recommendations. In an interview with the Literary Hub website, the girl told how she became interested in reading thanks to the book series “33 Unfortunate Events” by Lemony Snicket, which her brother gave her.

The Marquis de Sade about books, prison and his beloved wife The Marquis de Sade is a French thinker, author of “Justine” and “120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Debauchery,” who became famous, among other things, for his overly liberated morals for his era.