The man Ivan Afrikanovich Drynov is riding on the driftwood. I drank with the tractor driver Mishka Petrov and now he talks with the gelding Parmen. Lucky selpovo goods for the store, and drove drunk in the wrong village, then home only – in the morning… It’s a habit. And at night on the road, … Read more
The story “Portrait” of Gogol was written in 1833 – 1834 and entered the cycle “Petersburg Stories”. The work consists of two parts, which tell us about two different fates of artists. The link between the stories is a mystical portrait of the usurer, which had a special impact on the lives of both heroes. … Read more
The titular adviser Aksenti Ivanovich Poprishchin, forty two years old, keeps his diary entries for over four months. On a rainy day on Tuesday, October 3, 1933, Poprishchin, in his old-fashioned greatcoat, leaves, after a while, for an unloved service in one of the departments of the St. Petersburg department, hoping to get a little … Read more
Bertolt Brecht Mamas Courage and her children 1 Spring 1624 The army of the Swedish king gathers soldiers to march on Poland. Feldwebel and the recruiter recognize only war as the founder of public order and civilization. Where there is no war, what kind of morality is there: everyone wanders wherever he wants, says what … Read more
Mario Puzo The godfather Vito Andolini was twelve years old when his father was killed, who did not get along with the Sicilian mafia. As the mafia hunts for his son, Vito is sent to America. There he changes his name on Corleone – by the name of the village, where he comes from. Young … Read more
The story consists of thirteen chapters. The author is called “St. Petersburg Poem” Titular adviser Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin wakes up in his apartment on a gray autumn day. In the mirror, a “sleepy, blind and pretty stitched figure” is reflected, and its owner remains, apparently, pleased with it. Taking out his wallet, Mr. Golyadkin finds … Read more
L. Petrushevskaya Three girls in blue Three women “over thirty” live in the summer with their young sons at the dacha. Svetlana, Tatiana and Ira are second cousins, they bring up their children alone (although Tatyana, the only one of whom, has a husband). Women quarrel, finding out who owns half the dacha, whose son … Read more
Honeymoon in full swing. Little McGarry, a welterweight boxer who does not know himself in the ring, is blissful. He is ready to fulfill any desire of his young wife. And when she cooed: “Darling, I would eat a peach,” he gets up and follows the peaches. But the Italian at the corner of the … Read more
William Shakespeare Anthony and Cleopatra In Alexandria, the triumvir Marc Antony is entangled in the silk nets of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra and betrays love and revelry. Supporters of Antony grumble: “One of the main three pillars of the universe On the position of the woman’s buffoon”. Yet Anthony decides to leave Egypt after learning … Read more
Vladimir Dmitrievich Dudintsev (1918-1998) – Russian Soviet writer. Born July 16 (29), 1918 in the city of Kupyansk Kharkiv region. Dudintsev’s father, Semyon Nikolayevich Baikov, captain of the Tsarist army, died during the Civil War (shot in Kharkov in red), and Vladimir brought up his stepfather, Dmitry Ivanovich Dudintsev, a land surveyor by profession. Mother … Read more