Vladimir Khazan and Vladislav Rezvyy - about Boris Bozhnev The personality of one of the most talented poets of the Russian emigration of the first wave, Boris Bozhnev, was surrounded by an aura of mystery even during his lifetime. The poet was so withdrawn and unsociable that sometimes even close friends lost contact with him for many years, and to this day there are many blank spots in his biography.

From the book “Who defeated the USSR: “hippies” or “yuppies”? The generation of the seventies between freedom and consumption" In the continuation of the bestseller “How We Lived in the USSR,” Dmitry Travin talks about the generation born in the 1950s and 1960s - about the people who ultimately buried the Union. We are publishing an excerpt about how market mechanisms normalized and began to undermine the Soviet system from within.

About Walter Benjamin's main unfinished work Walter Benjamin's "Passages" has been called an anthology of the culture and everyday life of Paris in the mid-19th century - in any case, the genre nature of this book is not easy to determine. The author worked on it for many years until his death - and left it unfinished. Perhaps, Ivan Davydov believes, this is because life itself, which Benjamin tried to describe in its entirety, is incomplete.