Fabrizio, the youngest son of the Marquis of Valserra del Dongo, spends his childhood in the family castle of Griante built in the 15th century over the beautiful Lake Como. He has two sisters and an older brother, in everything surprisingly similar to his father. The marquis is rich, but stingy, his wife and daughters … Read more
KATERINA ISMAILOVA Opera in four acts (nine scenes) Libretto by N. Leskov A. Preiss and D. Shostakovich Characters: Boris Timofeevich Izmaylov, merchant Zinovy ​​Borisovich Izmailov, his Son, merchant Katerina Lvovna Izmailova, wife Zinoviy Borisovich Sergey, employee The crooked man Aksinya Worker with a mill The clerk 1st employee 2 nd employee 3rd employee Coachman Janitor … Read more
The plot of this tale by KG Paustovsky is uncomplicated. Pyotr Terentyev leaves the village for war. His young son Stepa gave the father of the old rhinoceros beetle, which he caught in the garden. Planted in a box of matches, the rhinoceros beetle went with the soldier to the front. Pyotr Terentyev fought, was … Read more
On the Kyogin Street, there were women – very young and older – and for knitting they spent time before the fishermen returned. At Donna Pasqua and Donna Libera in the sea husbands left, at Luchetta and Orsetta – suitors. The boatman of Toffolo passed by, and he wanted to chat with the beauties; First … Read more
Altsest did not cease to amaze his people with his temper, convictions and actions, and now even his old friend Philint refused to consider his friend – for the fact that he talked too warmly with a man whose name could only then be remembered with great difficulty. From the point of view of Alzest, … Read more
Norman Mailer Naked and dead World War II. Pacific theater of military operations. The history of the landing and capture by the Americans of the fictional island of Anapopey, where the Japanese concentrated, develops as it were on several levels. This is a chronicle of military operations, a detailed reconstruction of the atmosphere of the … Read more
Petersburg. Rodion Raskolnikov goes with a mortgage to the interest-bearing Alena Ivanovna, with whom the gray sister Lizaveta lives. A former student plans to kill the old woman, calculating all the details. Having received money for a mortgage, Raskolnikov meets a drunk official Marmeladov, who talks about his family – his wife, her three children … Read more
I. Turgenev Bachelor Actors (shortened list). Mikhailo Ivanovich Moshkin, 50 years old. lively, busy, good-natured. Pyotr Ilyich Vilitsky, 23 years old. indecisive, weak, self-interested man. Rodion Karlovich von Funk, 29 years old. Cold, dry creature. Philip Yegorovich Shpundik, landowner of 45 years. with claims of education. Marya Vasilievna Belova, an orphan who lives near Moshkin, … Read more
Thought to start the diary came to Chelkatourine on March 20. The doctor admitted finally that he had to live for two weeks. Soon the rivers will burst. Together with the last snow they will take away his life. Who can tell his gloomy thoughts at the last hour? Only the old and the near … Read more
AP Platonov Chevengur After four years in the fifth hunger drove people to the city or to the woods – there was a crop failure. Zakhar Pavlovich remained alone in the village. During the long life of his hands, not a single product, from a frying pan to an alarm clock, was missing, but Zakhar … Read more