Eduard Lukoyanov reads Pliny in 2022 We are often asked what to read in order to understand the modern world, and we try to answer this question if possible, turning to well -known classics and the most significant relevant publications. But today we decided to talk about one book, which, despite its textbook, for some reason interests mainly specialists.

Excerpt from the book by Elena Rzhevskaya “Berlin, May 1945: Notes of a military translator” What is it - to meet the long -awaited surrender of Germany with a piece of Hitler's skull in his hands? The famous Soviet military translator Elena Rzhevskaya says: in honor of Victory Day, we publish an excerpt from her book Berlin, May 1945. Elena Rzhevskaya.

"Soldier's letters" George Zhukov and Disaster Discourse The meeting of the letters of the Lieutenant of the Red Army, Georgy Zhukov, sent to his wife in 1943-1945, was published in a separate publication in 2020, and two years ago in honor of May 9, Gorky already published a small fragment from it. Today we decided to contact the “Soldier’s letters” again - Vladimir Maksakov shares his notes on the fields of this book.

About Lubomir Mici and his project of “Balkanization of Europe” “Barbarogenius the Decivilizer” is a novel by the Balkan avant-garde artist, the founder of Zenitism, Lubomir Micić, written on the eve of World War II and offering a radical (anti-)aesthetic alternative to the very foundations of European culture. Artem Abramov talks about this book and the “barbaric” ideas of its author for Gorky readers.