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
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
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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
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
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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,
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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
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