From the book “Venice. History of water and land" On October 15 and 16, the Peredelkino House of Creativity will host meetings with famous translators and publishers, as well as a fair of translated literature, in which independent book publishing houses will take part. This was reported in a press release received by the editorial office of Gorky and on the organizers’ website .

Arena Vanyan - to the death of the Spanish writer Havier Marias Spaniard Javier Marias, who died a little more than a month ago, was not particularly popular in Russia, although several of his novels were translated. Meanwhile, it was the largest modern writer, and in Spain itself - also a very contradictory social figure. Read about the life and work of this person, greatly influenced the appearance of the intellectual novel of the 21st century, read in the material of the Arena Vanyan.

From the book by historian Oleg Khlevnyuk "Empire Corporation" In the Historia Rossica series, Oleg Khlevnyuk’s book “Impostings Corporation. Shadow economy and corruption in the Stalin USSR. ” Its main character was the adventurer Nikolai Pavlenko, who, shortly after the end of the Great Patriotic War, created a fictitious construction organization, which received many state orders and existed before the arrest of its founder in 1952.