Monkey roots of the Tarkovsky family The poetry of Arseny Tarkovsky and the films of his son, director Andrei Tarkovsky, seem least of all to be related to children's pranks and funny pranks. Especially if these pranks are animalistic in nature. Meanwhile, in the biography and home environment of both, a significant presence of monkeys is revealed - both living and fictional. Read about this in the investigation by Ilya Simanovsky.

Dmitry Karasev - about Chesterton the politician and Chesterton the writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) is known to many as a writer with a whimsical style, the author of detective stories about Father Brown and several paradoxical novels. But he was also a political thinker and one of the main theorists of distributism, an economic doctrine that grew out of the social teachings of the Catholic Church.

Excerpt from Vladimir Surdin’s book “Simply Space” Everyone loves astronomer Vladimir Surdin, and those who don’t yet love him will definitely fall in love with time. We are publishing an excerpt from his new book “Simply Space. Problems about interplanetary travel", published by the publishing house "Alpina Non-Fiction". All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarism, violence and lies.