Film scholar Andrey Shemyakin on late Soviet reading practices Andrei Shemyakin (1955–2023), an outstanding film critic, documentary director, candidate of philological sciences and a great book scholar, has passed away. At the end of the summer, Gorky interviewed Andrei Mikhailovich about books and reading: we are publishing it today in memory of this wonderful man. The interview was conducted by Ivan Martov and Yulia Poleshchuk, the text version was prepared by Lena Eka.

Interview with Yuri Orlitsky about the poetry of Henry Sapgira On December 1, the first two volumes of the new four -volume works of Heinrich Sapgira - one of the most striking, productive and diverse poets of Russia in the second half of the twentieth century will be presented at the Non/Fiction fair No. 25. The release of the publication is dedicated to the author’s birthday: November 20, 2023, Henry Veniaminovich would have turned 95 years old.

A fragment of the book "The Secret of the missing expedition: lost in the ice" On August 10, 1912, the Saint Anna sail-motor schooner left Petersburg in order to make a transition along the Northern Sea Route from west to east, passing the route almost not mastered in those days. In mid -October, the schooner firmly froze into the ice in the Kara Sea and began to drift to the north. By the spring of 1914, “St. Anna” was about 100 kilometers from the northern Island of the Franz Joseph.

About the book by Georg Friedrich Knapp “The State Theory of Money” The work of Georg Friedrich Knapp, “The State Theory of Money,” which was published back in 1905, was first published in Russian translation. The idea that money is created by the state has been fiercely criticized since its introduction to the public, but this has not stopped it from influencing economic thought in the 20th and 21st centuries. Elena Pashutinskaya talks about the book of the German economist.