From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Fanny Kaplan, who made an unsuccessful attempt on Lenin's life in Moscow on August 30, 1918, unwittingly thwarted the plans of a group of British and French diplomats who were planning to stage a counter-revolutionary coup a week later. The fact that this plot could have been successful and the role played in it by Scotsman Robert Bruce Lockhart is described in a new book by historian Jonathan Schneer, writes The Guardian.

From conservatives to futurologists and libertarians The voices of utopian theoreticals a hundred years ago sounded loudly and confidently, but today they are barely distinguishable-but this does not mean that they were silent at all. While there are idealists in the world, if you do not bring attempts, then at least think of a fair future: at the request of Gorky, Ivan Beletsky chose five recent books, the authors of which are somehow addressed to the problem of utopianism. 1. Andrzej Valitsky.

Alexander Cyntsev - about autobiography of the famous Serbian performan The physiologicity and provocativeness of Marina Abramovich’s work has long become a lady in the tongue-but not everyone knows the place that there was a place for both retrites and wolves with decaying corpses on the streets of Chinese cities. At the request of Gorky, Alexander Cyntsev talks about the famous Serbian artist recently published on Russian autobiography. Marina Abramovich. Go through the walls. M.: AST, 2019.

Fragment of Theophilus Gauthier's book "Homemade Menitsa" It turns out that Theophilus Gauthier was a great fan of animals and not only kept rats, cats, parrots, dogs, horses, etc., but also wrote about them the book “Home Menary”, who had just published in Russian in the publishing house “Text” (translation of Vera Milchina).