Excerpt from the book "End of ancient music" The book of the great musicologist Bruce Haines, written in 2007, had an effect exactly the opposite of the name: ancient music received a new life impulse due to the development of authentic performance techniques. We publish an excerpt about how the attitude to the musical interpretation of composer ideas in the XVII - XIX centuries changed. Starting from February 24, 2022, we were all in the face of the advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

Re -read "Ice" Anna Kavan “Hell Margin” reprinted Anna Kavan’s novel “Ice”, who first saw the light in 1967, a year before the death of its author. Eduard Lukoyanov again turned to this extremely strange text about violence against the background of the end of the world and discovered in it what had previously remained invisible to him personally. Starting from February 24, 2022, we were all in the face of the advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

About one of the most unusual monuments of literature of the 17th century The main character of “The Tale of Woe and Misfortune” does something unforgivable: he decides to live by his own mind, and not according to his parents’ precepts. Old Russian scribes did not approve of such behavior, so the Grief-Misfortune, which has common features with Slavic mermaids, Valkyries and the tempting demon, follows the poor fellow, and soon brings the young man to an extreme state.

About the origin and transformation of the famous pseudonym From what source did Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili borrow his famous party pseudonym? Not long ago, a version was put forward that the future father of nations and supreme commander in chief could find him in Russian pulp literature of the second half of the 19th century.