The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in Switzerland, in a tuberculosis sanatorium located near Davos. The title of the novel evokes associations with the mountain Gerzelberg, where, according to legend, Minnesinger Tannhäuser spent seven years in captivity with the goddess Venus. The hero of the novel, a young German named … Read more
V. Mayakovsky About this The theme, about which the poet wants to speak, is sung many times. He himself circled in her poetic squirrel and wants to spin again. This theme can even push a cripple to the paper, and its song will ripple in the sun. In this subject, truth and beauty are hidden. … Read more
In the Southwest of Ukraine, in the family of the rich country landowners Popelskikh, a blind boy is born. At first no one notices his blindness, only his mother guesses this by the strange expression of Petrusya’s face. Doctors confirm the terrible guess. Father Peter – a good-natured man, but rather indifferent to everything, except … Read more
In Bunin’s story “Cricket”, the author reveals the beauty of the human soul, inherent in even the most inconspicuous man, such as the protagonist, Ilya Kapitonov, nicknamed Cricket. Cricket is a saddler in the master’s house, in the story he is compared with another saddler, Vasily, and in everything seems worse than a comrade. He … Read more
Chapter first Katerina Lvovna was very attractive by appearance, a woman of the twenty-fourth year. The girl was married to a wealthy merchant Izmailov. Their family consisted of the widowed father-in-law of Boris Timofeevich, the husband of Katerina Zinovy Borisovich and Katerina Lvovna herself. Children of the couple were not. Boredom in the merchant’s house … Read more
Vishakhadatta Signet of the Rakshasa The renowned expert on the art of Chanakya’s policy, or Kaugilia, was deposed in Pataliputra, the capital of the country of Magadha, the last king of the Nand dynasty, and after his murder he placed his pupil Chandragupta Mauryu on the throne. However, the faithful minister of Nanda Rakshasa managed … Read more
The narrator (the narrative is a first-person narrator) remembers how six or seven years ago he lived in Belokurov’s estate in one of the counties of the T-g province. The owner “got up very early, walked in a podevke, in the evenings he drank beer and all complained to me that he did not find … Read more
About the work In 1870, after a series of publications of separate chapters, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The History of a City appeared. This event received a wide public response – the writer was accused of ridiculing the Russian people and denigrating the facts of Russian history. The genre of the work is a satirical story, exposing … Read more
Hilary Birdou is forty-one years old. He works “in the state department – no matter what”, in the bureaucratic hierarchy, except for the typist and clerk, stands on the lowest step; lives in an uncomfortable apartment, which serves him only as a “place for sleeping,” without trying to equip it or even just how to … Read more
A. A. Fadeev Young Guard Under the scorching sun of July 1942, they walked along the Donetsk steppe with their carts, artillery, tanks, the retreating units of the Red Army, children’s homes and gardens, cattle, trucks, refugees… They crossed Donetsk no longer had time: the parts of the German army came to the river. And … Read more