Fragment of Grisha Bruskin's book "Busting Rage" The artist Grisha Bruskin published a book about revolutionary iconography, in which he subjected a bold analysis of both textbook and little -known images from the history of Russian and world culture. We offer to read the first of the essays included in it. Grisha Bruskin. Busting rage. Revolution and counter -revolution in art. M.: New Publishing House, 2021.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The literary inspiration for "Let It Be," one of the Beatles' most famous songs, was Shakespeare's "Hamlet," according to Sir Paul McCartney's collection of memoirs, "Words," due out this fall. This is reported by the Independent, fragments of the new book can be read in the Sunday Times ( 1 , 2 ).

Nikolai Rhodes - about the book of Karin Cleman "Patriotism from below" Having set the goal of finding out how Russians relate to their native country, Karin Cleman discovered that several different types of patriotism are characteristic of our compatriots, and in most cases we are talking about views that are very far from imposed by the state. Moreover, the French sociologist believes, the most immune to any propaganda, were by no means those who are called liberals.

Olga Muravyova - about salon entertainment, wit and etiquette Literary salons bloomed in Russia in the 1820-1830s, but their century turned out to be short. Who did and what role they played there and what role did they play in the Russian culture of the Golden Age? Read about this in the first part of a large article by a researcher at the Pushkin House of the Russian Academy of Sciences Olga Muravyeva.