Good biographies

Who is actually the author of the phrase “the end justifies the means”? How did the concubines live at the court of the Japanese emperor? And what if your ship was captured by pirates?

Penetrating autobiographies and inspiring biographies of great people will make you look at the kaleidoscope of life in a look in a look and see in it the patterns amazing. What do you know about Audrey Hepburn? We bend his fingers: she starred in “Roman holidays”, for the main role in which she received the Academy Award, created the cult image of Holly Golitley in the film “Breakfast at Tiffany”, embodied the whole sophistication and elegance of our world.

Most likely, you bent them all. What about the fact that she was a participant in the resistance during the Second World War, she threw the ballet due to general exhaustion, survived two unsuccessful pregnancies and was the active ambassador of the UNISEF? She shone so brightly on the movie screens, but it was time to find out what pain and will was hiding behind this angelic smile.

What if you are only 14 years old? The court lady of Nidzo, the heiress of the once powerful aristocratic surname, experienced the joy of mutual love and pain from coercion. Intrincible and gifted, she was able to win the heart of not only the sovereign, but also other wealthy men. On the slope of her life, she tonsured the Buddhist nuns, Nidzo wrote an autobiography, thin, translucent, expiring tears.

So the “uninvited story” became one of the most famous diaries of medieval Japan, one of the best autobiographies and retained the traditions, life and customs of the time when the shogunate was just starting to make a beautiful puppet from the imperial power. The book is like therapy. Mosaic from memories, commemorative meetings and valuable thoughts. If you have never heard about the Nyut Federmeser, then here you have a brief squeeze: the Russian public figure, the founder of the Hospital Charitable Help “Vera” and the charity fund and the hospice to help seriously ill children and young adults “House with the Lighthouse”.

For many years, she has been fighting for changing the attitude of society and the state to palliative assistance. And in this autobiography book, she will share with you deeply personal, cheerful and sad, touching and tearing the soul into pieces by stories that rethink the very concept of humanity. She served in the fleet, worked in the Cydney district of Kings Cross, met face to face with pirates, tried herself as a nurse, a cook, a social worker and an entrepreneur.

She also chose a fickle, to match herself, new Zealand as a place for atmospheric bookstores, to give people the joy of meetings with a perfect story every day. One of the best autobiographies of booksellers. Nine lives of Peter Froichen what is a person capable of in the harsh conditions of ice captivity? The biography of the eccentric Danish researcher of the twentieth century Peter Froichen will definitely surprise you!

From the loss of the legs in the heavy expedition on the northern polar circle to survival in the wild jungle of Hollywood - this is not just a description of life, but a real adventure romance with almost real pain. Defend the interests of indigenous peoples, escape from the Gestapo and go on a trip to the hills of Greenland - the territory of the eternal winter. From the definitions of the “worthy son”, “favorite of women”, “traveler” and “gardener” he folded the whole and full portrait of the great playwright, turning the biographical book into a real documentary film with a minimum of copyright comments and twisted to the maximum of truth.

The publication is supplemented by unique archival photographs. Niccolo Machiavelli "It is safe to say that among the political thinkers of the West there is no one whose story would be presented as contradictory as the story of Niccolo Machiavelli." Who was he? Did he join the Medici or remained faithful to the Republicans? Is it possible to consider it “Galilee of the political world”, which separated the policy from ethics and laid the foundations of “technology”?

And is it true that the leaders of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century were inspired by his labors? From this biography book you will learn everything that you could not even imagine about one of the greatest Italian philosophers. This is an insightful study that sheds a new light on the life and work of Machiavelli and offers a fresh reading of his most famous works.

The story of my life, until this moment, Zelfir Tregulov, an art critic, and ex-director of the Tretyakov Gallery, did not publish such an open and honest story about her rich life, full of love for art. In the whirlpool of the cultural life of Russia, Europe and America, you will see the eyes of the author of famous artists and art historians, go to the GDR, Monaco, India and Mexico and understand that art history is not a boring work at all, but a bright and fascinating profession that can be devoted to your whole life.

Lovers Socrates "there is only good - knowledge and only evil - ignorance."Most likely, you heard this saying of Socrates, you can resurrect school lessons in your memory and name several principles of his philosophy, but what do you know about him? That he is a wise ancient Greek old man? But his life consisted not only of dialogues with Plato! You will meet a thinker in all his hypostases: a heroic warrior, a stubborn youth, an eccentric dancer, an athlete, a vagabal dreamer and a passionate lover.

And also learn the name of the mysterious woman who inspired Socrates on his great mission. Columbus is a cruel crusader, a mystical visionary, the embodiment of bourgeois capitalism, the adventurer is unsuccessful - can you confidently say which of them the real Christopher Columbus? A book, written by a recognized authority in studying the biography of a legendary researcher, offers you to go into an exciting adventure - on all sails to the new light!

The author is not afraid to reveal the real personality of the traveler, hidden behind romanticized legends and rewritten history. He creates a critical and accurate portrait of a person in whose honor a national holiday was introduced. But was he really worthy?