25 funniest epigraphs-aphorisms from the novels of the genius writer and humorist Robert Asprin

The funniest memes that appeared thanks to the senator in mittens and a mask and brought almost 2 million "green"

Joe Biden's inauguration was not without some curiosities. The attention of the whole world has attracted … no, not the newly elected President of the United States, but Bernie Sanders. The name of this politician was hitherto unknown to the general public. The elderly senator made a splash on the Internet with his photo in cute knitted mittens and a disposable mask. In just a day, the network was flooded with hundreds of funny memes with a politician. The best of them are further in the review

The Passion of Leo Tolstoy: What tormented the genius writer all his life, and why his wife went down the aisle in tears

At first glance, everything is decorous in Tolstoy's family. Only wife, marriage for love. But she knew better than others about the demons who tormented her husband. Why did the bride walk down the aisle in tears and whom did she dream of killing? The answers to these questions can be found in the diaries of the spouses. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy is a writer read by the whole world. Many of his works are autobiographical and, of course, each of them reflects the author's worldview. And Tolstoy's biography is no less interesting than his novels

And Lenin is so young: The strangest and funniest monuments to the leader of the Russian revolution

The older generation remembers well how dozens of people carried flowers to the Lenin monument on November 7. The sculptures of the leader grew all over the country, and beyond its borders, like mushrooms. In the heat of fanatical veneration, Soviet people did not even notice that some of the statues looked very ridiculous and even caricatured. Well, after the collapse of the USSR, daring sculptors began to deliberately create allegorical parody monuments. We offer a selection of the strangest and even funniest images of Lenin, set at different times in

Delight, depression, binge: how the writer Andersen visited the writer Dickens

Reading books by famous writers or poets of the past, sometimes you fantasize - if they all met each other, what would they talk about? How wise and interesting their conversation would be, I guess! But some of the creators of the past did meet in life, such as the advocate of poor children Charles Dickens and the famous storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. And came out of this, I must say, the most unpleasant story

Who is the real author of the novels "The Twelve Chairs" and "The Golden Calf", and were Ilf and Petrov "literary slaves"

The ideas that the famous dilogy about the son of a Turkish citizen was written not by Ilf and Petrov, but by someone else, over the years since the novels were published, have developed into an independent, almost detective story. Most recently, he was embodied in a research book, where it is quite categorically stated: "The Twelve Chairs" and "The Golden Calf" were not created by the one who appears on the cover