Literary and historical notes of a young technician

Pavel Lvovich Schilling, aka Baron von Schilling, was born in 1786 in Tallinn, into a family of Baltic Germans. The eighteenth century was ending, with a century ahead of the domestication of electricity. And the first sensible current source, a galvanic element, appeared

“A typical guy from the Russian hinterland”

The mother of Russian soldier Viktor Ageev, captured by the Ukrainian army in the Lugansk region, asked Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to pardon her son. In a video message published on July 12 on the Novaya Gazeta website, Svetlana Ageeva spoke

The right bottle for homemade wine

It is believed that the older the wine, the better it is. In fact, long-term aging does not always improve the taste, and for some types, for example, French Beaujolais, it is completely destructive. Wine can be compared to a living organism: it matures, becomes ripe

Who is a bailiff? On the exclusive right to execution

At first glance, it becomes clear that the noun “performer” is formed from the verb “to perform.” That is, a performer is someone who performs something. But is this all the meaning or are there any pitfalls and nuances unknown to us?