The Prankster-Monkey, Donkey, Goat and Crowd Mishka Have started to play Quartet. They got the notes, bass, viola, two violins And sat down on the meadow under the limes – Capture their art light. Struck in the bow, tear, but no sense. “Stand still, brothers, stop!” Cried the Monkey, “Wait, how can you go to … Read more
Larks belong to the family of Lark. These are chunky, small birds with a dense addition. Claw of the back finger – slightly curved, long and sharp. Strong and straight beak – medium length, with a slightly bent back. The wings are long and wide. Plumage is predominantly dull grayish – brown flowers. In appearance, … Read more
Seven-year-old Alka lives in a new city, built on the site of the village. Near the city is a large ravine, in which dandelions grow. Once the neighbor girl decided to play with Alka and put dandelions in his mouth. Alka hit her, for which he was punished by his elder sister Marina. Most of … Read more
AP Chekhov The Bishop Under the Palm Sunday, in early April, His Eminence Peter serves the All-Night Vigil. The church is full of people, the monastic choir sings. The bishop is unwell for three days, he feels heaviness and fatigue. Precisely in a dream or delirium, it seems to him that his mother came to … Read more
The work, based on the Byzantine heroic epos, begins with a story about how the Arabian king Amir kidnaps his wife a beautiful maid of the royal family from the “Greek land.” Her brothers, after learning about the abduction, rush in pursuit of Amir in the Saracen land, intending to kill him. When the brothers … Read more
It was not lucky for a small Scottish setter-gordon to be born with an outrageous appearance for his breed. In no way did he meet the standards, according to which breeders judge the breed of a dog. A descendant of almost royal dog blood, Beam became an annoying misunderstanding for the breeder. He would inevitably … Read more
Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky was the son of Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodich and Princess Feodosia (daughter of Mstislav Udalogo). He was born on May 13, 1221. It is known that in 1228 and 1230, his father left the brothers Alexander and Fyodor to reign in Novgorod. But only in 1236 the period of the long reign of … Read more
In the year when Grand Prince Ivan III ordered the erection of the Moscow Kremlin, the prince Nikita, who owned the city Podzol in the upper Volga, planned to build his Kremlin better than the tsarist. And in the last century opposite the Kremlin, on the other side of the hill, there appeared the buildings … Read more
Protopop Avvakum wrote the life with the blessing of the monk Epiphanius, his spiritual father. A solar eclipse is a sign of God’s wrath. In Russia there was a solar eclipse in 1654, because then Patriarch Nikon distorted faith. Fourteen years later, a new eclipse occurred. At this time, Habakkuk and his supporters were shaved … Read more
VN Voinovich Moscow 2042 The Russian emigrant writer Vitaly Kartsev who lived in Munich in June 1982 had the opportunity to be in Moscow in 2042. Preparing for the trip, Kartsev met his classmate Leszek Bukashev. Bukashev made a career in the USSR along the lines of the KGB. It seemed that the meeting was … Read more