From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Russian State Library for Youth will launch a series of literary slams, the organizers report. The first game of the prose slam will be held in the library on June 7 at 7:00 pm. Authors aged 16 to 35 are invited to participate. The main prize is a 30-minute recording of the author's audiobook in a professional studio. The first RGBM youth poetry slam was held as part of World Poetry Day and the “Library Night” event in 2017.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Journalist David France's book How to Survive a Plague was awarded the Green Carnation Prize. The Guardian writes about this. France has been writing about gay issues since 1982. His book is dedicated to the history of the struggle for access to antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected people, for which two movements united - ACT UP and TAG.

Dmitry Stakhov about the biography of Count Rostopchin Fedor Rostopchin is a well-known Russian statesman, he was the governor of Moscow during the Napoleonic invasion, the writer-patriot, the opponent of Gallomania, and after the release of resigned, he went to live in Paris. Dmitry Stakhov says why Rostopchin did not like Peter Vyazemsky, why the count burned his own estate, as well as about whose head the nanny dish was prepared. Leo tailor. Count Rostopchin.

Alexey Salnikov, Sergey Khazov-Kassia and Vadim month Twice a month, Gorky publishes a review of the new products of modern Russian literature. In this issue, Vadim’s autobiographical stories are not a very successful attempt to write an actual gay roman in Russian and Roman Alexei Salnikov, in which a Grishkovets of a healthy person walks along the Nabokovsky line between reality and delirium. Sergey Khazov-Cassia.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The human rights association of writers, journalists and bloggers “Free Word” came out in support of the artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, and the director of RAMT, Sofia Apfelbaum, whose houses were searched. The text of the statement was published by COLTA.RU.