On the 180th anniversary of the author of the "Course of Russian History" Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky, born on January 28, 1841, was not only an academician, a professor of Moscow University and the author of the famous “Course of Russian History”, but also a member of the Cadet Party - people who believed that the future should be built “according to science”. Read more about his political views - in the material of Artem Efimov, dedicated to the anniversary of the famous scientist.

Fragment of the book "A step from Paradise" “In a step from Paradise” is the biographical book of the traveler Thomas K. Schora, which describes the life and wanderings of the Tibetan Lama Tulshuk Lingpa, who went in search of a secret valley, where there is no disease, no deaths, no other misfortunes. Gorky invites its readers to get acquainted with an excerpt from the chapter “Crack in the Universe”. Thomas K. Shor. A step away from paradise.

Five audiobooks for children in a joint section of Gorky and StoryTel “Gorky” and the Storytel service continue to the “As you audit” heading, in which the curator and critic Sergei Odovnov talks about interesting audiobooks, noting their main advantages and disadvantages.

Interview with philologist Dmitry Kolchigin At the end of last year, the book “European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages” of Ernst Robert Curzius, about the significance of which many were heard, but did not expect that it would appear on our shelves was published. The translation of this fundamental work, published in the original more than seventy years ago, seemed to be an excessive business - however, philologist Dmitry Kolchigin coped with it.