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Audiobooks “Vnutri ubiytsy” and “Slovo patsana” lead Bookmate’s winter statistics
Acquainted myself with Bookmate's statistics for the winter. Curiously, the chief audiobooks of Yandex Plus's book service turned out to be «Inside the Killer» and «The Word of the Boy». Both books have been made into popular television series. And if the novel «Inside the Killer»
Cinema · Books · Saint Petersburg
Kusturica on his plans to adapt Dostoevsky, Vodolazkin and Gogol for the screen
Emir Kusturica Plans a New Project Based on Two Works by Dostoevsky. Kusturica has said that he will shoot his next film in Saint Petersburg and Siberia. It is to be called “Crime Without Punishment”, a blend of “The Idiot” and “Crime and Punishment”. After Dostoevsky, Kusturica intends to set
NB! · Art · Cinema · Books · Observations
The Death of Smaug, a Drawing by Tolkien Himself
The death of Smaug, a drawing by Tolkien himself. Incidentally, the film turned out rather similar.
The East · Books · Monarchies · Humour
Donald Trump's 1990 visit to Japan and his meeting with the Emperor 27 years later
A rather amusing episode concerning Donald Trump's meeting with the Japanese Emperor Akihito, described in Harry Hurt's book "Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump" The author tells of Trump's business visit to Japan in 1990. If the book is
Archive · Books · Observations · Society
So, Professor Thomas Salmon, in his "Modern History, or the Present State of All Nations" of 1735, reports that once Russia has mastered the subtleties of navigation and the other sciences, nothing can prevent her from becoming the foremost commercial pow
Russia produces goods without which other nations, and maritime powers in particular, would find it very hard to subsist. From Russia come pitch, tar, hemp, planks and round timber. Thanks to the canals between the Volga and the Baltic Sea, Russia is able to supply grain at low prices. The
Books · Observations · Science
Crystal books and the opton reader in Stanislaw Lem’s novel “Return from the Stars”
Books are crystals with information imprinted in them. They were read with the help of an opton. The opton resembled a real book, only with a single page between the covers. At every touch, the next page of text appeared upon it. From the science-fiction novel Return from the
Faith · Art · Books
The world wallows in evil not because God wills it, but because sin-loving man wills it
Hieromonk Roman (Kropotov) ill.: Job and His Friends. Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1810s.
Art · Books
King Latinus and the Conflict of Aeneas and Turnus in the Myths of Latium
Aeneas, Latinus and Turnus (ENEA, RE LATINO, TVRNNO) King Latinus, one hand resting on a round relief shield and the other on the hilt of his sword, stands before us, while Aeneas and Turnus, on either side of him, glare at one another in quarrel, the one with a dagger,
Art · Books
Aeneas's escape from burning Troy in the Aeneid and Rome as the heir of Troy
The Burning of Troy, with the Flight of Aeneas and Anchises, by François de Nomé (1593-1644) We learn of the flight of Aeneas, his aged father Anchises and his young son Ascanius from blazing Troy in the second book of Virgil's "Aeneid". The subject is
Books · People
A book of 24 biographical sketches on optimism, with proceeds going to three charities
Alpina has published an unusual autobiography: a collection of true stories from the life of the diplomat, musician and advertising man Alexander Ohanjanyan, "Diplomats, Footballers and Other Musicians" These are twenty-four biographical sketches about how much in everyday life is funny, touching, beautiful, inspiring, at times sad
Books · Mores
Origin of the word ciao from Latin sclavus via a Venetian courtesy formula
"In Tuscany someone has begun to use the formula 'I am your slave'," wrote the Italian philologist Niccolò Tommaseo in the first half of the nineteenth century, while working on his Italian dictionary. The universally known Italian greeting "ciao" derives from the Latin word