To the 180th anniversary of the Verlaine field Verlaine’s fields are customary to attribute to the generation of “damned poets”, and indeed in the eyes of many contemporaries he was an outcast. But his lyrics glorified French poetry and anticipated the Metric Revolution, which contributed to the arrival of Verlibra. Read about this in the material of Ekaterina Belavina, the author of the first Russian translation of Verlene’s poem “The Devil in Love”.

Excerpt from a monograph on the cultural origins of the Judicial Reform of 1864 A monograph by historian Tatyana Borisova, “The Dark Sense of Truth,” is being prepared for publication. Cultural origins of the Judicial Reform of 1864 in Russia,” which talks about conscience as the driving force behind the transformation of the court. Gorky publishes a fragment of the introductory chapter of this study in the author's edition.

About the body of the texts of Barbara Stepanova - artists of the second vanguard Varvara Stepanov (1894–1958) is usually represented as "the wife of the great Rodchenko." Meanwhile, Stepanova herself was an outstanding representative of the second wave of the Russian avant -garde, who developed her own artistic style and left many texts that are the essence of the creative searches of post -revolutionary art.

The matter of saving drowning people and the mission of an adventurous hero in the duology of Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov The slogan “The work of helping drowning people is the work of the drowning people themselves,” which hung on the wall of the Kartonazhnik club in the glorious city of Vasyuki, is memorable to many, but few people realize what a broad context is hidden behind it.