Before reading this entertaining and instructive tale, it would not hurt to learn about the man who became the “father” of Cipollino. This is Italian Gianni Rodari, who was known not only in his native country, but also abroad, as an excellent journalist and author of works for children. Rodari, in addition to the work … Read more
Hesiod Theogony, or On the origin of the gods Everybody knows: Greek mythology is first and foremost a lot of names. This is for us; and for the Greeks themselves there were even more. Almost every town or village had its own local deities; and even about those who were common, in every city they … Read more
The action takes place in the provincial town, in the house of the Prozorovs. Irina, the youngest of the three sisters of the Prozorovs, is twenty years old. “It’s sunny and fun in the yard,” and a table is set in the hall, waiting for the guests-officers of the artillery battery quartered in the city … Read more
Yu. Slovakian Maria Stewart Hall in the palace Holy Rood. The queen’s page runs in. He says there are riots in the city. Some unfamiliar man at the head of the crowd – mummers, masks, dancers with bells, people in black hoods – threatened, predicted and urged the people not to obey the queen. The … Read more
MN Zagoskin Yuri Miloslavsky, or Russian in 1612 Never before had Russia been in such a distressed situation as at the beginning of the 17th century: external enemies, civil strife, troubles of the boyars threatened to ruin the Russian land. Moscow is dominated by the Polish King Sigismund, whose troops oppress and plunder the unfortunate … Read more
The old, fat, sickly man, sitting in someone else’s house, in someone else’s bedroom, in someone else’s chair, and looking at his body with bewilderment, listens to his feelings, tries hard and can not quite master thoughts in his head: “Fools!” They think that, telling me about the attempt on my life, telling me the … Read more
Lizards discuss that they are preparing to meet noble guests in a magical hill. When the hill opened, an old forest fairy came out of it, which wore an amber heart on its forehead. She asked the kozodoy to blow up invitations: to a big ball of all, even people, if they talk in a … Read more
He was born in the village of Konstantinovo Ryazan province, in a peasant family. Since childhood, he was brought up from his grandfather by his mother, a man of enterprising and prosperous, a connoisseur of church books. He graduated from a four-grade rural school, then a church and a school in Spas-Klepik. In 1912 Yesenin … Read more
Every evening at the club “Shamrock” dances were arranged for the workers of the cardboard factory. Here came factory workers, bosom friends Anna and Maggie. Anna came with her boyfriend and took Maggie with her, an inconspicuous ugly woman with dull eyes, who always warmed the wall. One day, Maggie appeared in a club with … Read more
The dacha season is over, and Vasily Petrovich Bachey with his sons Petya and Pavlik was returning to Odessa. Petya for the last time looked around the endless marine space, glowing with a gentle blue glow. The following lines came to mind: “The lonely sail grows white / In the fog of the blue sea…” … Read more