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# A Brief Review of Last Month's Publications
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/kratkii-obzor-publikatsii-za-proshlyi-mesiats/
- Published: 2026-02-05T19:52:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:27:05.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Heritage, Society, Paris

A brief review of last month's publications. We spoke chiefly of the topical and the pressing, naturally without neglecting the link with the past, which, of course, explains a great deal. And so, the digest for January.

📌 What the Mona Lisa owes its popularity to. The story of [the most sensational robbery](https://theparnassian.com/v-1911-godu-iz-luvra-byla-ukradena-mona-liza-leonardo-da-vinchi/?ref=theparnassian.com) of the last century.

📌 Enid Blyton: [the most translated author in the world,](https://theparnassian.com/kogda-ia-dumaiu-o-meste-dzhoan-rouling-v-sovremennoi-kulture-vspominaiu-chto-neskolko-let-nazad-samym-perevodimym-avtorom-v-mire-byla-priznana-angliiskaia-detskaia-pisatelnitsa-enid-bla/?ref=theparnassian.com) whom nobody knows.

📌 How the balance of power between the USA, Europe and South America was established. The historical roots of [the abduction of Nicolás Maduro.](https://theparnassian.com/v-khode-grazhdanskikh-voin-v-venesuele-v-kontse-xix-v-evropeiskie-kommersanty-v-strane-ponesli-bolshoi-ushcherb-v-osnovnom-nemetskie-frantsuzskie-ispanskie-i-belgiiskie-kapitaly/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 The punishment for the crime of [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.](https://theparnassian.com/vchera-vpervye-v-zhizni-poluchil-gonorar-za-publichnoe-vystuplenie/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 How realistic is [the purchase of Greenland.](https://theparnassian.com/pochemu-siuzhet-s-priobreteniem-grenlandii-ne-vygliadit-takim-uzh-fantasticheskim/?ref=theparnassian.com) We recall how the States bought up other territories.

📌 How an Odessa jeweller [deceived the Louvre](https://theparnassian.com/v-1896-godu-luvr-priobrel-za-220-tys-frankov-tiaru-skifskogo-tsaria-saitoferna-3/?ref=theparnassian.com) and the whole of France.

📌 What do [Barbie and Anna Karenina](https://theparnassian.com/khotel-napisat-ob-etoi-dovolno-bessmyslennoi-vystavke-v-gollivude-s-zaglaviem-barbi-to-anna-karenina-v-kliuche-chto-barbi-i-anna-karenina-mogli-vstretitsia-tolko-v-gollivude/?ref=theparnassian.com) have in common?

📌 [From the Soviet Union to Greenland on an ice floe.](https://theparnassian.com/s-iiunia-1937-goda-po-fevral-1938-goda-chetvero-sovetskikh-issledovatelei-byli-zaniaty-v-pervoi-v-istorii-ekspeditsii-na-dreifuiushchei-stantsii-severnyi-polius-1/?ref=theparnassian.com) The first expedition in history on a drifting station.

📌 Pushkin and Eugene Onegin [in the Epstein files](https://theparnassian.com/kak-ni-stranno-no-v-perepiske-epshteina-upominaetsia-pushkin-i-evgenii-onegin/?ref=theparnassian.com)