The tabloid press loves the topic of poisons and poisonings. If it is impossible to say that one of our contemporaries was poisoned, she tries to prove that a historical character was poisoned. For example, in recent years there have been several television programs about how Alexander Nevsky was killed by poison. We, historians and toxicologists, were tormented with questions: “Could they have been poisoned?” Yes, they could. “Was there a reason?” Of course there was.

A fragment of the book of Elena and Bozhnaya the Zhevil "The fading of the Red" Why traditionally liberal Hollywood, after the war, supported McCartism and how the view on the USSR changed on the movie screen as an “Empire of Evil”. About this - in an excerpt from the book of Elena and Bozhen, the Zhelev, dedicated to the image of the enemy in Russian and American cinema. Elena ZHOSHOL, BODEN ZHOSHLA.

Alexey Lyubzhin - about why it is necessary to overestimate the heritage of the famous writer and teacher Konstantin Ushinsky Serious attempts to critically overestimate the literary authorities of the past are not made that often and equally infrequently give impressive results.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Booker Prize organizing committee has selected six novels from the thirteen longlisted to determine the 2020 winner. This is reported on the award website. Moreover, five out of six writers are American citizens or permanently reside in the United States.

“We are our brain”, “Neurophysiology is the key to happiness”, “Free will does not exist, everything is decided by our brain”, etc. This set of plots has been wandering from the vanguard of the popular science agenda for several decades to the headlines of bestsellers, causing genuine public interest.

Tatyana Sokhareva - about the book of Evgenia Hermtsyk "The incinerating years" Evgeny Kazimirovna Hermtsyk (1878–1944) is called a typical representative of the Silver Age. She wrote philosophical treatises, art prose and memoirs. Her memories were an important material for research dedicated to Vyacheslav Ivanov, Nikolai Berdyaev and other figures from the closest encirclement of the writer and her sister, the poet of Adelaide Gertsyk.

The modest advice of Eduard Lukoyanov to the master of Russian literature “To be Ivanov” is a collection of Aleksey Ivanov’s correspondence with readers of his books, in which the author of the novels “Heart of Parma” and “Geographer Globus drank” gives answers to the most diverse and acute questions of the present. Eduard Lukoyanov, who became a review of this book for Gorky, came to the conclusion that it was pointless to scold or praise it, but something could be changed in it. Alexey Ivanov.