"Oscar and the Pink Lady" is a touching and poetic story-parable, eleven letters to God from a boy named Oscar. Eleven funny, sometimes sad, life-loving messages. A story about the inspiring power of friendship, faith, the value of every day lived and how much love and kindness can be contained even in a short life.

Legendary fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko’s sweeping, visual F/X-filled epic is one of his most enchanting achievements: a stunning Cinemascope ballad of heroic medieval knights, ruthless Tugar invaders, wind demons and three-headed fire-breathing dragons.

What do you think will happen if you launch a paper airplane out of the window? Of course, the adventure is airy, unusual and incredible! It is about him that Natalia Volkova's book is about. This is a fairy tale for the little ones, it is written in verse, and every word, every line quickly draws the reader along with it. Will the airplane return to the boy Egor? Whether he will get out of the binding of Aunt Tony's fairy-tale book, where the jeep...

One freight train driver helped two dying military personnel using completely unofficial technology. If he'd known the consequences... He would have done the exact same thing anyway. While reading this edgy sci-fi novel about family values, you keep getting the feeling that he's not at all what he pretends to be. Well, you don't.

Fëdor is a restless polar bear cub, very curious and inquisitive. He can't wait to learn to hunt and tries to figure it out for himself, but he falls off the edge of the ice. A young narwahl saves him, but puts him ashore on an iceberg far from his mother and sister. He's alone until an icebreaker finds him and a scientist named Maksim brings him aboard and begins searching for Fëdor's family. Will Fëdor be reunited with his mother and sister?

During the Civil War, against the combined forces of the Whites and the interventionists advancing from Murmansk, Onego and Ladoga lakes were fought by people who were often even without uniforms and sailed on old steamships that were hastily converted to military vessels. This book tells of the heroic daily routine of the conscious defenders of the revolution, of their exploits at the front, of the cherished attitude towards the Motherland and freedom....

Joseph Stalin, December 18, 1878 - March 5, 1953, was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until he died in 1953. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1953. Despite initially governing the Soviet Union as part of collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the country's...

Based on Goethe’s classic about a man who sells his soul to the devil so he can make his wish come true.