Interesting people

Escape the victim status!

Respect life with its charms and difficulties

Excerpts from Joseph Brodsky's famous speech to the graduates of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Stadium in December 1988:

1. Try to expand your vocabulary and treat it like your bank account. Give it a lot of attention and try to accumulate dividends. It's not meant to boost your eloquence in the bedroom or on the road to professional success, nor to turn you into a worldly savant—though it will eventually become that.

Rudyard Kipling - outstanding poet, writer, journalist. Among his most famous works are: The Jungle Book, Kim, Many Stories and Poems. In 1907, aged just 41, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first English-language author and the youngest person ever to receive the prize

Coco Chanel forever changed the world of fashion. Thanks to her, women began to wear fitted jackets, which until then were reserved for men, short black skirts against which all arguments in negotiations are powerless, gorgeous feminine fragrances, the right of a woman to tell a man what she thinks about him