Russian Biographies

Известный писатель, поэт и литературовед Дмитрий Быков является также автором увлекательных, психологически точных портретов-эссе о творческих знаменитых людях. Предлагаем вашему вниманию аудиокнигу, записанную на студии "Ардис", в которую вошли рассказы о Джоне Голсуорси, Михаиле Светлове, Владимире Высоцком, Ольге Берггольц, Анне Ахматовой.

Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков (1891-1940) - выдающийся русский писатель и драматург, приобретший мировую известность в конце ХХ века. Пожалуй, сегодня нет человека, не слышавшего о знаменитом романе "Мастер и Маргарита". Блестящий сатирик и непровзойденный очеркист, он написал "Роковые яйца" и "Собачье сердце", создал панораму Москвы 1920-х гг.

An erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city defined by its survival and reinvention, and whose rich history offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics The city of Moscow stands at the center of a nation comprising eleven percent of the globe’s landmass, 11 time zones...

The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola's biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of containing the Soviet Union helped ignite the Cold War but who spent the next half century trying to extinguish it. Always prescient, Kennan in the 1990s warned that the eastward expansion of NATO would spur a new cold war with Russia.

Vladímir Ilich Lenin, su verdadero nombre, fue un famosísimo revolucionario ruso, líder bolchevique, político comunista, principal dirigente de la Revolución de octubre y primer dirigente de la Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas. La importancia de su papel como líder soviético y su pensamiento marcaron la vida de su país y del mundo por más de 60 años.

After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly. His great novels burst upon the European literary scene like a succession of thunderbolts. His understanding of the darker and more extreme recesses of the human mind cast a forceful light into these areas of experience. The raw psychology and passionate involvement of his books galvanized writers and thinkers as disparate as Nietzsche and Kafka.

Elizaveta Petrovna Yan'kova (1768-1861) ne otnosilas' k chislu znamenityh lic, hot' v ee rodu byli znatneyshie familii (Rimskie-Korsakovy, Shcherbatovy, Meshcherskie, Tatishchevy, Tolstye, Volkonskie, Saltykovy, Miloslavskie). No za svoi 93 goda ona byla znakoma so mnogimi interesnymi i dazhe znamenitymi lyud'mi. Ee rasskazy ohvatyvayut zhizn' pyati pokoleniy, i yavlyayutsya bescennym vkladom v istoriyu Moskvy.

Izvestnyy avstriyskiy pisatel' Stefan Cveyg, master belletristicheskih romanov, posvyatil svoyu poslednyuyu rabotu v ehtom zhanre velikomu francuzskomu prozaiku, Onore de Bal'zaku, sozdatelyu grandioznogo cikla romanov "Chelovecheskaya komediya". Takoe vnimanie k Bal'zaku vpolne opravdanno. Pered nami razvorachivaetsya zhizn', napolnennaya burnymi sobytiyami.

"Russian history in the lives of its most important figures" - the classic work by prominent Russian historian, one of the founders of Russian historical thought Nikolai Kostomarov.

Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post-Soviet town, My Life as a Russian Novel traces Carrere's pursuit of two obsessions: the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his erotic fascination with a woman he loves but cannot keep from destroying. In prose that is elegant and passionate, Carrere weaves the strands of his story into a travelogue of a journey inward.

'You must be a spy!' the Russian exclaimed. I laughed and raised my glass. True stories filled with humor, cultural mistakes and experiences; how in the early days of the Russian Federation, one man built a personal diplomacy with people who had never before even met an American—or spoke English. Familiarity brings understanding--and trust--but not everything goes smoothly.

Dacha na Aptekarskom ostrove Sankt-Peterburga. Tam v 1906 godu provodit leto mnogochislennoe semeystvo. Glava sem'i yavlyaetsya i glavoy russkogo Pravitel'stva. Imenno on obespechivaet bezukoriznennuyu rabotu gosudarstvennogo mekhanizma strany, prohodyashchey period vazhnyh i trudnyh reform, kotorye dolzhny obespechit' obshchestvennoe spokoystvie i procvetanie. V to vremya kak odna chast' doma predaetsya obychnym letnim zanyatiyam i razvlecheniyam.

Avtobiograficheskiy roman angliyskogo pisatelya Somerseta Uil'yama Moehma "Podvodya itogi" (1938) predstavlyaet soboy ne stol'ko izlozhenie fakticheskoy kanvy ego zhizni, skol'ko popytku proanalizirovat' svoy put' - pisatelya i cheloveka. Predel'no iskrennie i glubokie razmyshleniya avtora o svoem literaturnom tvorchestve i vnutrennem razvitii ne mogut ne zainteresovat' sovremennogo chitatelya.

The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. “Molly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible, lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger...

Russko-yaponskaya voyna: Buduchi voennym korrespondentom na ehtoy voyne. Krasnov prinimal neposredstvennoe uchastie v boyah. Pered nami zahvatyvayushchee povestvovanie o geroizme nashih soldat v bitvah s protivnikom, prevoskhodyashchim russkih i chislom i osnashcheniem. Na vnutrennem fronte: Razval armii i fronta posle fevralya 1917 goda v sledstvie znamenitogo Prikaza N1 o soldatskih komitetah. Polnyy haos v voyskah i torzhestvo hamstva.

"Russian history in the lives of its most important figures" - the classic work by prominent Russian historian, one of the founders of Russian historical thought Nikolai Kostomarov.

"Russian history in the lives of its most important figures" - the classic work by prominent Russian historian, one of the founders of Russian historical thought Nikolai Kostomarov.

From a team of leading Ukrainian reporters, 77 Days of February is the bracingly powerful and intimate story of the early days of the Russian invasion of their thriving independent nation. It brings to the world, in a way not seen before, the experiences of everyday Ukrainians whose lives have been forever torn apart by this brutal and illegal war, and celebrates their monumental strength and resilience.

Mitropolit Dimitrij Rostovskij (v miru Daniil Savvich Tuptalo; 1651-1709)russkij cerkovnyj dejatel', episkop Russkoj Cerkvi; duhovnyj pisatel', propovednik. V 1757 godu proslavlen v like svjatyh Pravoslavnoj Rossijskoj Cerkov'ju; pamjat' 21 sentjabrja (po julianskomu kalendarju) i v den' Sobora Sibirskih svjatyh (10 ijunja). Dimitrij Rostovskij proslavilsja kak plodotvornyj cerkovnyj avtor - sostavitel' sbornikov zhitij svjatyh (naibolee izvestnyj, v chetyreh knigah - "Chet'i-Minei").

Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and 1940s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would discover, these successes were a cover for one of the most incredible espionage tales in the history of the Cold War-Boris Morros also worked for Russian intelligence. Morros's assignments took him to the White House, the Vatican, and deep behind the Iron Curtain.