The action takes place in the suburban dacha village in the unusually hot, suffocating summer of 1972. Pensioner Pavel Evgrafovich Letunov, a man of advanced age, receives a letter from his old acquaintance Asi Igumnova, who was in love with the school from the school for a long time. Together they fought on the Southern … Read more
Chapter 1 At the gates of the hotel in the provincial city of NN, a carriage comes in. It sits “a gentleman, not handsome, but also not of a bad appearance, neither too fat nor too thin, you can not say that he is old, yet not so much that he is too young” – … Read more
In the foreword the author emphasizes that the reason for writing this work was not the death of MV Frunze, as many think, but simply the desire to reflect. Readers do not need to search in the stories of genuine facts and living persons. Early in the morning, in the saloon car of the emergency … Read more
A lot has been written about the Great Patriotic War. A special attention deserves the story “The Mother of Man” by V. Zakrutkin. Her heroine is a simple Russian woman who has experienced inhuman tortures. But for the sake of saving the new life that was beating inside her, she was able to stand, becoming … Read more
Hippolytus, the son of the Athenian Tsar Theseus, goes in search of his father, who has been traveling somewhere for six months. Hippolytus is the son of the Amazon. The new wife of Theseus Fedra disliked him, as everyone thinks, and he wants to leave Athens. Phaedra is also sick with an incomprehensible disease and … Read more
T. Junichiro History of Syunkin Who Moduya, known as Syunkin, was born in Osaka in the family of an apothecary in 1828. She was the most beautiful and most gifted of all the children of an apothecary, moreover, she had an even, cheerful disposition. But at eight, the girl suffered a misfortune: she was blind. … Read more
A. N. Ostrovsky The Snow Maiden The action takes place in the land of the Berendeys in mythical times. The end of winter comes – the leshy hides in a hollow. On the Red Hill near Berendeyev, the village, the capital of Tsar Berendey, spring comes, and birds return with it: cranes, swans – the … Read more
June 25, 1925 The narrator sails on an English ship to Hong Kong. On the map, this island resembles a cork that sits in the delta of the Pearl River, along which the gray patch of the Canton has spread. China is swept by the revolution: grandiose demonstrations are being prepared in Beijing and Shanghai, … Read more
I. Ivan Barefoot Ivan Petrov, nicknamed “Barefoot,” comes to the yard of the house where I live. He stands by the logs, but does not chop them for firewood. I know that he came only to ask for money to get drunk. Such as he is called “the rural proletariat.” An absurd discrepancy in peasant … Read more
Prince Vladimir the sun is feasting in the Gridnitsa with his sons and a crowd of friends, celebrating the wedding of the youngest daughter of Lyudmila with Prince Ruslan. In honor of the newlyweds singing guslyar Bayan. Only three guests are not happy with Ruslan and Lyudmila, three knights do not listen to the prophetic … Read more