Books
automatic translate"Peter the Great" by Alexei Tolstoy, summary
This historical epic novel tells the story of the harsh era of the Russian state at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. Written between 1929 and 1944, the novel ends with the events of 1704 due to the author’s death.
"The Seal of the Basilisk" by Tatyana Korsakova, summary
"The Seal of the Basilisk" is a mystical detective novel published in 2009. This book is a story of a family curse and human greed, set around a secluded estate.
"The Seal of Twilight" by Sergei Lukyanenko and Ivan Kuznetsov, summary
This book is a direct continuation of the cult series about the Others. The text expands the magical universe, co-authored by two writers. The work was published in 2014. The most remarkable detail of the novel lies in the description of the original concept of the Twilight mages.
"The Seal of Chaos" by Maria Danilova, summary
During a routine university exam, a linguistics student is accidentally transported into a harsh magical world of demons and vampires. The book was created in 2020.
Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk, summary
Chuck Palahniuk’s 2009 novel Pygmy is a satirical work written in the form of operational reports from a thirteen-year-old foreign fighter. The author crafts the narrative through the agent’s broken speech, replete with ideological cliches, dictatorial quotes, and martial arts jargon.
"The Queen of Spades and Others" by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, summary
The short story collection "The Queen of Spades and Others" was published in 2001. This book is a gallery of dramatic human destinies, where hidden family dramas, forbidden love, physical ailments, and incomprehensible twists of memory are revealed behind the façade of Soviet and post-Soviet life.
Xenophon’s "Feast", summary
This work, which belongs to the genre of Socratic dialogue, was created by the ancient Greek writer and historian Xenophon sometime after 380 BCThe author recorded his recollections of a friendly meeting that took place in 421 BC. The text is valuable for demonstrating the "lighter" side of the life of Socrates and his circle, in contrast to more rigorous philosophical treatises, describing the behavior of noblemen during leisure and entertainment.
Plato’s "Feast", summary
The Symposium is one of the most famous works by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, written in the form of a dialogue sometime between 385 and 380 BC.
A summary of C.S. Lewis’s "The Screwtape Letters"
A satirical novella in letters, written in 1941 and published in 1942, reveals the mechanics of Christian ethics through the lens of demonic thoughtThe narrative consists of thirty-one letters from the high-ranking demon Balamut, who holds a position in the Ministry of Temptations, to his young nephew, the tempter Gnusik.
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" door Martin Luther King Jr.
While the letter Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote while imprisoned in Birmingham had a specific purpose in the beginning, it ultimately touches on universal issues of freedom and inequality.
"The Letter That Never Was" by Elena Nesterina, summary
This book is a touching young adult novella that tells the difficult story of two orphaned sisters who find themselves alone in a harsh village winter, and their friendship with a local Roma boy.
"St. Petersburg notes": fresh events of St. Petersburg today
One way to talk about incidents is with a comic strip. Art shows through the eyes of an eyewitness everything that happened. They decided to apply this style in Switzerland, showing the tragedy of the Leningrad blockade.
"I am writing everything except denunciations." On the anniversary of Eugene Schwartz
KIROV. In Kirov, Eugene Schwartz was remembered.
"Planet Water" by Boris Akunin, summary
This book is a collection of three detective stories about the adventures of detective Erast Fandorin at the beginning of the twentieth centuryWritten in 2015, the work marks the first time the author has divided the narrative into three independent novellas, each with its own genre subtitle: technocratic, nostalgic, and idiotic.
A summary of Bernard Werber’s "Planet of Cats"
This post-apocalyptic science fiction novel explores the catastrophe of civilization through the eyes of a domestic cat, Bastet, endowed with an electronic brain interface and the ambition to unite all of Earth’s species.