About the book of Mark Harrison, not yet translated "Secret Leviathan" All countries to one degree or another use the regime of secrecy to hide important secrets from prying eyes. However, the USSR was clearly a champion in this discipline - to great damage to the quality of its government. This conclusion was reached by British researcher Mark Harrison, the author of the book “Secret Leviathan” not yet translated into Russian. Read about her in the material of Vladimir Gelman.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" In the village of Komarovo near St. Petersburg, on July 29, 2023, the literary festival-walk “Resort” will be held for the third time. The venue will be not only the village library and the Muze Garden restaurant, but also various sites in the parks, groves and forests of Komarov. The festival is hosted by the Voznesensky Center.

Excerpt from the book of Andrei Levkin "Place without properties" “A place without properties” is a collection of a short prose of the writer Andrei Levkin who died at the beginning of this year. We bring to your attention one of the six of its texts included in the book. Starting from February 24, 2022, we were all in the face of the advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

About the book of Tatyana Shishkova "Extra -Speed" The book of Tatyana Shishkova “Non -Speed” is dedicated to the post -war Soviet cultural policy associated with the name of Andrei Zhdanov. About how persecution and repression in the field of culture of the late 1940s and early 1950s were caused by a change in the position of the USSR in the world arena and the beginning of the Cold War, read the review of Konstantin Mitroshenkov.