History & Persons

Alexander Palladin23.10.2024

Back in 1935, when the 25th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s death was marked by many Soviet newspapers and magazines, my father was sent to Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy’s former estate and burial place. He was given an editors’ assignment to bring back some new interesting facts about the deceased author of War And Peace and many […]

Alexander Palladin22.10.2024

It is generally accepted that the first Soviet citizens to undergo internships at Columbia University were the future architect of perestroika, Gorbachev’s closest (after his wife) adviser, Alexander Yakovlev, Oleg Kalugin, who later became a KGB general, and two others whose names have sunk into oblivion. As part of the thawing of relations between the […]

Alexander Palladin19.10.2024

38 years ago, in the capital of Iceland, Gorbachev and Reagan had their second personal meeting. It almost ended with an agreement on the complete elimination of nuclear missile weapons of the USSR and the USA. Fortunately for us, at the last moment, the advisers of the then head of the White House persuaded […]

Alexander Palladin16.10.2024

On March 1 (old style), 1881, in St. Petersburg, the seventh assassination attempt on Alexander II in almost 15 years was made, this time fatal for the Tsar-Liberator. This happened before the eyes of my grandfather Ivan Petrovich Palladin, who had lived in the Russian capital since 1869. The second son of a sexton who […]

Egor Sennikov15.10.2024

An artist trying to publish his story about the horrors he experienced in the camps. A writer who became a propagandist in the service of the Nazis. What do they have in common — and where did their different paths lead them? A tram crawls along the Trinity Bridge — oh, excuse me, the Equality […]

Alexander Palladin15.10.2024

Perestroika, among other things, led to the severance of ties with millions of foreign friends, many of whom devoted their entire lives to establishing normal relations with our people. Among them was the Canadian writer, scientist, educator and publisher Dyson Carter (1910-1996). “During his fifty-plus years of writing, Dyson Carter published hundreds of magazine and […]

Klim Zhukov14.10.2024

On October 9, 1967, Comrade Che, aka Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, a glorious son of the Argentine people, commander of the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and Cuban statesman, was executed in a school in the Bolivian village of La Higuera. Apparently, the reason for the decision to execute Che Guevara was the reluctance of […]

Alexander Palladin13.10.2024

The tension in our military-political confrontation with the West, unprecedented since the mid-1980s, gives many a reason to recall the Cuban Missile Crisis. In this regard, it is appropriate to recall the Hollywood documentary drama “Thirteen Days” released in 2000. The film was based on the book of the same name by the brother of […]

Alexander Palladin12.10.2024

The unprecedented terrorist attack carried out by Israeli intelligence services in Lebanon, where hundreds of people suffered from the simultaneous detonation of booby-trapped gadgets, gave reason to recall the memoirs of former Mossad employee Victor Ostrovsky, “By Way of Deception”, published overseas in 1990. Becoming the scapegoat after the failed Mossad operation, the great-grandson of […]

Alexander Palladin10.10.2024

The French army has begun to prepare for a new direct clash with our country, claims the American publication Politico, having studied the documents of the French Ministry of Defense. According to the head of the land command of the French army in Europe, General Bertrand Toujouse, “earlier we only played at war” with Russia, […]

Leo Tolstoy’s Offsprings

The First Soviet Interns at Columbia University

Assisted By Reagan Fate Was Merciful to Russia

My grandfather witnessed the assassination of Alexander II

On Both Sides of Transparent Glass

Dyson Carter, Our Loyal Betrayed Friend

“I am Thinking About the Immortality of the Revolution”

The Cuban Missile Crisis Was Resolved by … Swearing

By Way of Deception

Macron is Setting off on a Campaign… Again to Russia

Rasputin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Maria Rasputin

Priestesses of Love

August 17

Japanese Communism: A Century of Revolution, Underground Struggle, and Parliamentary Politics