From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Writer Daniil Granin died in St. Petersburg at the age of 98. Interfax reports this with reference to a source in the city’s medical circles. The agency’s interlocutor said that Granin had been in the intensive care unit of a city hospital for the last few days. Shortly before his death, the writer was connected to a ventilator. Daniil Granin (real name German) was born in 1919.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Arkady Dragomoshchenko Poetry Prize for young authors writing in Russian has announced the start of its fourth season. This is reported on the award website. This year's special guest will be the German poet Michael Donhauser. The jury members were Oleg Aronson, Evgenia Suslova, Andrey Levkin, Elena Kostyleva and last year's winner Ekaterina Zakharkiv. The chairman of the jury is Alexander Skidan.

About imaginary mysteries and contradictions in “The Master and Margarita” Bulgakov's novel has long had a reputation as a mysterious and enigmatic work. The reasons for this are both the theme of the novel itself, unusual for the Soviet era, and its fate: the writer died at the final stage of work on the novel, the manuscript was published only 27 years later, and then there was no one to ask about the author’s intention.

Opium, cats and the Priory of Sion: 10 facts about Jean Cocteau On July 5, 1889, Jean Cocteau was born - a French writer, poet and playwright, who, together with Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Picasso and Satie, decided the fate of art in the first half of the 20th century.

From the book "Venice. History of water and land " Medievist Stefan Skinner called the alleged author of the manuscript of Voinich - an old book written in an unknown language using an unknown alphabet, most likely, in the first half of the 15th century. About this writes The Guardian. According to Skinner, the author of the manuscript is a Jewish doctor who lived in Northern Italy.