On December 24, 1949, at five o’clock in the evening, state counselor of the second rank, Innokentiy Volodin, almost ran away from the stairs of the Foreign Ministry, jumped out into the street, took a taxi, raced through central Moscow streets, went out on the Arbat Street, went to the telephone booth at the Khudozhestvenny … Read more
The author visited a neighbor living fifteen versts from his estate. This is Arkady Pavlovich Penochkin, an officer in retirement, a reasonable and positive person, a master of cards, an enviable fiancé in the province. The officer, who is almost incessantly peppering the speech with French words, becomes unpleasant to the author immediately, as soon … Read more
There are many invisible characters in the play and three real ones – the Old Man, the Old Woman and the Orator. At the front of the stage there are two empty chairs, three doors and a window on the right, and three doors and a window on the left, near which there is a … Read more
In the genre-thematic plan – this lyrical and philosophical meditation, “road diary”, with a weakened plot. The characters of the poem are an immense Soviet country, its people, a swift turn of their deeds and accomplishments. The text of the poem contains a joking recognition of the author – a passenger of the train “Moscow-Vladivostok”. … Read more
May evening. Zoya Denisovna Pelts, a thirty-five-year-old widow, dressed in front of a mirror. To her on business comes the chairman of the house committee of Hallelujah. He warns Zoya that she was decided to tighten up – she has six rooms. After long conversations Zoya shows Allilue permission to open a sewing workshop and … Read more
RI Fraerman Wild Dog Dingo, or The Story of the First Love Friends from childhood and classmates Tanya Sabaneyeva and Filka relaxed at a children’s camp in Siberia and now they return home. The girl is met at home by an old dog Tiger and an old nurse (mother at work, and her father does … Read more
I A year has passed since Ilya Ilyich’s illness. A colleague of his brother Pshenitsyna went to the village, but did not do anything positively. After the illness, Ilya Ilyich was at first gloomy, then fell into indifference, but gradually “entered his normal normal life.” All care for Oblomov’s food was undertaken by Agafya Matveyevna. … Read more
About forty years ago, in St. Petersburg on Vasilevsky Island, there lived a male housekeeper. Among the thirty or forty children who studied in that boarding house, there was one boy named Alesha, who then was no more than 9 or 10 years old. His parents, who lived far from St. Petersburg, two years before, … Read more
DMITRY DMITRIEVICH SHOSTAKOVICH The genus. in 1906 Shostakovich is one of the greatest contemporary composers, an outstanding music and public figure, and a teacher. In the work of Shostakovich are represented all genres of musical art – opera and ballet, symphony and concerto, instrumental ensemble and romance, song and oratorio, operetta and music for cinema … Read more
Part one Compared to the frightened silence that prevailed in Petersburg in the winter of 1739, an unusual revival was observed in the courtyard of the chief governor of Volyn. Volynsky arranged a celebration for the Empress Anna Ioannovna, for this purpose, couples in national costumes from all parts of Russia gathered in his yard. … Read more