Writing is not an easy task, it is quite time-consuming and requires a fair amount of dedication from those who have decided to devote their lives to the word. But when reading a novel, a story or a poem, we hardly think about who is hiding between the lines and letters. And although you can find a huge amount of information about famous writers — how they lived, how they created their immortal works — their personalities are always hidden under a certain aura of mystery.
In this issue, you will see rare photos of famous poets and writers whose works excite the minds of readers even after centuries.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen themMaxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Sergey Yesenin reads poems to his mother.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Leo Tolstoy plays the Russian folk game gorodki.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Mark Twain.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
The free breath of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Boris Pasternak.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Mikhail Bulgakov.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Maxim Gorky pokes a broom at the opera singer Fyodor Chaliapin.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Jack London.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Anton Chekhov with a dachshund.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Vladimir Nabokov studies butterflies.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Joseph Brodsky.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Ernest Hemingway kicks a beer can.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Ray Bradbury.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Sergey Dovlatov.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Charles Bukowski.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Kurt Vonnegut.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Erich Maria Remarque.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Astrid Lindgren.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Aldous Huxley.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them
Bella Akhmadulina.
Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them