Dmitry Bavilsky about Carlo Ginzburg’s book “The Riddle of Pierrot” Among the geniuses of the Early Renaissance, the painter Piero della Francesca remains perhaps the most unstudied. Everyone saw his famous “Flagellation of Christ,” but experts still haven’t decided when the masterpiece was painted and what the artist wanted to communicate. The work of Carlo Ginzburg, a professional historian who decided to take on a problem that art critics were powerless to face, was published in Russian.

The centenary of the author "over the abyss in rye" One of the most famous writers of the twentieth century and at the same time one of the most mysterious: exactly 100 years ago, January 1, 1919, was born Jerome David Salinger. “Gorky” asked the literary critic and prose writer Andrei Astitzaturov to write a text about the secret of today's anniversary. Jerome David Salinger is one of the most mysterious writers of the twentieth century.

The most popular articles of the past year “Gorky” congratulates all readers on the New Year and invites you to remember the articles that you read especially willingly in 2018: about Goethe, about a bad book about the War of 1812, about Nosov and Nabokov, about what Alexander Sekatsky reads, about theories conspiracy and others. 1. Why no one reads Goethe Goethe is one of the most recognized writers of all time, but keen reader interest in his legacy is very rare these days.