From the biography of the father of the atomic bomb “Robert Oppenheimer. Life in the center ”is the first full biography of the great scientist who led the project to create an American atomic bomb. Today, Gorky publishes an excerpt from the chapter of Los Alamos 3: Severe forebodings, which tells how the joy of successful tests was replaced by Oppenheimer with horror when it was time to put his brainchild in practice.

Lidia Voronina - about the collection of letters from Nikolai Antsiferova The local historian Nikolai Antsiferov spent seven years in the camps of the Gulag and not only did not lose human features there, but also turned this existential experience into material for knowing the true meaning of history and his own life.

Roman Korolev - about the book of Maria Rachmaninova “Filonov. Black paths guide " The legendary Soviet avant -garde player Pavel Filonov always sympathized with the Bolsheviks, but he did not have the opportunity to exhibit and was subjected to ruthless persecution in the press. According to the St.