Literature

lAeksandr Sergejevich Pushkin,  6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 – 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder… Read more »

Gethsemane 36 Dann kommt Jesus mit ihnen an ein Gut, genannt Gethsemane, und er spricht zu den Jüngern: Setzt euch hier, bis ich hingegangen bin und dort gebetet habe! 37 Und er nahm… Read more »

A Warning Against Hypocrisy. Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must be careful to do… Read more »

Deutscher Philosoph, Junghegelianer und Theoretiker des Egoismus und des Anarchismus (Bayreuth, 25-10-1806 – Berlin, 26-6-1856) Johann Caspar Schmidt stammte aus bürgerlichen Verhältnissen. Seine Eltern waren Albert Christian Heinrich Schmidt und… Read more »

Composer, poet, writer, philosopher. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak –10 February1890 – 30 May1960- was a Russian poet and writer famous for his 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago. His first book of poems, My Sister, Life (1917), is one… Read more »

Tao te king was written by Lao Tse Spiritual Guru who write these lines on the Boarder area of China when he was about to leave the country. The King… Read more »

Here is the complete Mahabharata translated into English prose directly from the original Sanskrit text by Pratap Chandra Roy. Each of the 12 volumes is about 500 pages and they are huge files, so… Read more »

Beyond words And in the shadowless unclouded glare / Deep blue above us fades to whiteness where / A misty sea-line meets the wash of air Sir John Betjeman honoured… Read more »

(1891-1931) Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (Russian: О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м, IPA: [ˈosʲɪp ɪˈmʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ məndʲɪlʲˈʂtam]; 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1891 – 27 December 1938) was a Russian Jewish poet and essayist. He was the husband of Nadezhda Mandelstam and one of the foremost… Read more »