Fragment of Stephen Walker's book “First. New History of Gagarin and Space Race " Before sending an astronaut number one to the orbit, Sergey Korolev and his employees launched rockets into space, the inhabitants of which were dogs, mice, sea pigs, snakes, microbes and a frighteningly reliable human mannequin named Ivan Ivanovich. Read about one such flight in an excerpt from Stephen Walker's book “First. The new story of Gagarin and the space race.

On censorship and self -censorship in Russian libraries Since December 2022, books began to disappear in Rosia, and at the end of last year it became noticeable even of a wide audience. As a restriction of access to the books of the wrong authors and on wrong topics, it is arranged from the point of view of an employee of a simple St. Petersburg library, read in the material “Gorky”. Starting from February 24, 2022, we were all in the face of the advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

Interview with playwright Simon Stevens Chekhov firmly enters the three Russian writers loved by all foreigners, but in the UK, world theater Mecca, and interest in his plays is special. They are placed there in a classic form, and in the form of arrangements, sometimes quite far from the original. Especially for the readers of Gorky, Julia Savikovskaya spoke with the playwright Simon Stevens, whose play “Vanya” (that is, “Uncle Vanya”) is going on on the London stage right now.

How a Russian reader discovers Japan, China and Korea The image of East Asia, which has long been established in our minds, is purely romantic and exotic - these are ancient countries with mysterious sages, seductive geishas, ​​long noodles and the mass destruction of sparrows. But why are our ideas the way they are and how did they arise? What works of Far Eastern literature are well known to the general reader and what should he pay attention to?