At the other pole from the chronicle is the view of a participant immersed in the events. Igor Nemodruk, once a farmer and entrepreneur, after May 2014 a Donbass militiaman, writes a story to convey, as he says, the “piercing feeling” of choosing the “bright side” at a decisive moment. Nemodruk participated in one of the turning points of the day: together with friends from the “officers’ tent” of the Kulikovo residents, he decides to go to the House of Trade Unions and hold the defense there.

Ivan Navparenko - about the book "In Search of True Russia" The book of the Russianman Lyudmila Parts (USA) is dedicated to the symbolic role of the province in modern Russian culture, or rather in our favorite contrast “West - Russia”. The province can act as a treasury of the spirit or a dead swamp - it all depends on the sympathy of the observer. The scheme of the cultural myth proposed by the author, but needs to be finalized taking into account some current trends, says Ivan Napapenko.

About "Italian routes of Andrei Tarkovsky" Publishing House "Otorod" celebrated the anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky by the release of Lev Naumov’s book on the Italian stage of the life of an outstanding director. “Italian routes” is a thousand-grass volume in which the fate, thoughts and work of Tarkovsky are reconstructed in the most detailed way, up to the indication of the GPS coordinates of the location of the camera during filming.

About “The Writer and His Publisher” by Siegfried Unseld A book by Siegfried Unseld has become available in Russian, which includes essays about four great writers and their relationships with publishers. The heroes of Unseld, who himself became famous as the leader of the legendary Suhrkamp Verlag, were Hermann Hesse, Bertolt Brecht, Rainer Maria Rilke and Robert Walser. Alyosha Rogozhin talks about what lessons can and should be learned from this book.

Excerpt from the new book of literary critic Andrei Ranchin The Common Place publishing house has published a collection of selected articles by literary critic Andrei Ranchin, dedicated to the works of Russian poets and writers of the 19th - early XX century. We offer to get acquainted with one of them, showing how Afanasy Fet interpreted the famous myth of the Narcissus and used in a new way of traditional in the lyrics of the images of lilies and streams.