Ivan Shcheglov - about one personal experience of reading The name of Vladimir Kazakov (1938-1988) seems to be heard, but it seems not very good. Even within the non -certificate literature of the Soviet era, he is at best as only the successor of the great work of the Russian avant -garde - from Khlebnikov to the Oberiuts. In fact, he was an incredibly independent author, which Ivan Shcheglov, who kindly shared his personal experience of reading Kazakov, suggests being convinced.

Excerpt from a book about the history of European and Russian places of imprisonment The analogy between the monastery and the prison, that is, voluntary and forced imprisonment, is not so obvious, but modern researchers find many parallels between these phenomena, significant from the point of view of studying the history of both European and Russian disciplinary institutions.

On "Lectures on Byzantine Architecture" by Andrei Vinogradov More than five years ago, the Rosebud Publishing publishing house began to publish in book form selected lecture courses of the Magisteria educational site. The Book of Andrei Vinogradov, published in the framework of this program, “Lectures on Byzantine Architecture”, was essentially the first Russian -speaking introduction in the more than millennial history of the whole architectural tradition.

Why did Ehrenburg and Platonov turn to the image of a “reluctant trickster” in the late 1920s? At the end of the 1920s, two years apart, Ilya Erenburg and Andrei Platonov wrote literary texts whose heroes were fools, whose very stupidity challenged the political meanings of the time. Read about how the images of these “reluctant tricksters” are constructed and why writers needed them in the era of the “Great Turning Point” in the material by Mark Lipovetsky.

Arthur Grand on David Foster Wallace's rap studies At one time, the translation of “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) became such a hit in Russian publishing that its author will not need any special introductions for a long time. And more recently, the Ural publishing house Gonzo remembered other things of the American suicidal trickster, All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarity, violence and lies.