From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Meeting with Finnish journalist Marjo Nurminen and presentation of her book “The World on the Map. Geographical Maps in the History of World Culture" will be held at the Muravyov-Apostoly estate on November 9, reports the press service of the Paulsen publishing house. The book “The World on the Map” includes maps from national archives and museums of many countries, private collections and closed storage facilities.

1917: from anarchists to Nicholas II Gorky continues to celebrate the centenary of the Russian Revolution. We compiled the alphabet of the key phenomena of 1917: the female death battalion, the July uprising, revolutionary sailors, as well as other people and events in the quotes of contemporaries and modern research. A - anarchists Ten days before the October Revolution, at a meeting of the St.

How animals enhance the library experience A lecture on the work of Neil Gaiman from the course “Literature from the Back Door” will be held on November 10 at the N. A. Nekrasov Library, the library’s press service reports. The evening will be the second event in a course of lectures by Andrei Orlovskaya, dedicated to special and subcultural literary phenomena and a new look at the life and work of famous classics and contemporaries.