“Frogs” by Aristophanes in brief

There were three famous writers of tragedies in Athens: the elder – Aeschylus, the middle one – Sophocles and the younger – Euripides. Aeschylus was mighty and majestic, Sophocles clear and harmonious, Euripides tense

“Doctor Pascal” E. Zola in the summary

Doctor Pascal is a sixty-year-old scientist, an innovator, out of his pen are medical works. He is engaged in healing, using his own methods and giving hope to the sick. He is interested in

Summary “Twelve Chairs” by Ilf and Petrov

On April 15, 1927, in the city of N, the mother-in-law of Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, the former leader of the nobility, dies. Before her death, she informs him that in one of the chairs

“Nightingale” Andersen in brief

Behind the garden of the Chinese emperor was a forest, and in the woods there lived a nightingale who sang so well that even a poor fisherman forgot about his seine, but then again

Summary Meshchan Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky Mieschans Vasily Vasilyevich Bessemionov lives in a prosperous house, he is 58, the foreman of the paint shop, who marks a deputy in the city duma from the shop class; Akulina Ivanovna,

Summary “Foucault Pendulum”

The plot of this novel by a well-known Italian writer, philologist and historian of literature falls on the beginning of the seventies of the 20th century. a time when youth riots were still raging

“Oblava” Bykov in brief summary

The action takes place in the Belarusian village in the mid-thirties. Collectivization has already taken place, a collective farm has been created, so-called kulaks have been dekulakized and deported to immense places, and in

Summary of the “Chapaev and Emptiness” of Pelevin

First part Winter of 1918. In the center of the post-revolutionary Moscow Peter came across a former classmate and poet von Ernen. He now served in the Cheka and invited an old friend to

Bylina “Dyuk Stepanovich” in brief summary

From the glorious city of Galich, from the rich land of Volyn, a kind fellow, Dyuk Stepanovich, left to go hunting. But hunting did not work out – for nothing, he shot his expensive

Summary Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Sorceress

THE SPARROW Opera in four acts Libretto by IV Shpazhinsky Characters: Prince Nikita Danilych Kurlyatev, Grand duchess in Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod Princess Eupraxia Romanovna, his wife Knyazhich Yuri, their son Mamyrov, the old clerk
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