AI Kuprin Junker At the very end of August the cadet adolescence of Alesha Aleksandrov was over. Now he will study in the Third Junker name of Emperor Alexander II infantry school. In the morning he paid a visit to Sinelnikov, but alone with Yulenka he managed to stay no more than a minute, during … Read more
In the county town, from which “three years of downloading, no state you reach,” the town governor, Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, gathers officials to inform the unpleasant news: by letter from the acquaintance, he is notified that an inspector from St. Petersburg is traveling to their city Incognito, and with a secret prescription. ” The governor … Read more
Dr. Watson is approached by the agitated landlady of Sherlock Holmes, Mrs. Hudson. Her guest is dying. For three days he refused to eat and does not allow to invite a doctor, agreed only to call Dr. Watson. Worried Dr. Watson finds his friend in a terrible state. The great detective has contracted a deadly … Read more
Standing three hundred odd years on the banks of the Angara, Matera saw everything in her lifetime. “By the time of the Angara, the bearded Cossacks rose up the Angara up the Irkutsk prison, people who were scurrying to and fro on it spent the night, carrying prisoners along the water, and also, having caught … Read more
In the first year of university A. If Chekhov thought up the story, it is interesting, what would he write about the mood of everyone at that time? If you have already written articles or notes, skinte, please, links to them and a few words about yourself on. In his memoirs, the writer notes that … Read more
Tarragon sits on a mound and tries unsuccessfully to pull off his shoe. Vladimir comes in and says that he is glad of the return of Estragon: he really thought that he disappeared forever. Tarragon thought so himself. He spent the night in a ditch, he was beaten – he did not even notice who. … Read more
The heroines of the novel are six girls-schoolgirls, united in the Brodie clan by the will of their beloved teacher, Miss Gene Brodie. The action takes place in Edinburgh in the thirties. Miss Brodie leads a class of little girls in the elementary branch of a respectable private school. In one of the first lessons … Read more
Vitka Borzenkov went to the bazaar in the regional city, sold bacon for a hundred and fifty rubles (he was going to marry, desperately needed money) and went to the wine stall to “smear” a glass or two red. A young girl came up and asked: “Let me have a light.” “With a hangover?” asked … Read more
On November 22, Seslavin sent me to clear the left side of the Vilna road, with a hundred Sumy hussars, a platoon of dragoons of the Tver regiment and a dozen of donts. ” So the dragoon captain begins his story. The detachment moves along the road, along the roadsides, with terrible decorations, are horse … Read more
Every year, at the beginning of each shift, a group of drummers arrives at the pioneer camp, who meets the sun with a cheerful drumbeat. Valka Begunov, who has not yet become a pioneer, meets the dawn with the drummers. The drum of one of the drummers falls from the cliff into the river, and … Read more