May 5, 1679 in the quiet wilderness of Upper Ward Clydesdale, a place in Scotland, all the new members come to the annual review. Dressed ladies and gentlemen, a motley crowd of onlookers. The picture is quite peaceful. But it only seems so. The Privy Council, the supreme executive authority in Scotland, ruthlessly punished those … Read more
A. G. Bitov Pushkin House The life of Lyova Odoevtseva, the descendant of Odoevtsev’s princes, proceeds without special shocks. The thread of his life is flowing out of someone’s divine hands. He feels more like a surname than a descendant of his glorious ancestors. Grandfather Lyova was arrested and spent his life in camps and … Read more
The action takes place after the First World War in a large German city. In the mansion of the seventy-year-old Matthias Clausen, a sleek gentleman, the secret commerce of an adviser, his anniversary is celebrated. There is a festive atmosphere in the house, many guests came. The Adviser by right enjoys the respect of the … Read more
Andrei Vasilyevich Kovrin, a master, works a lot, sleeps a little, smokes and, at last, is frustrated with his nerves. The doctor advises him to spend the summer in the village. He goes to Pesotsky – Yegor Semenovich, his former guardian and tutor, and his daughter Tanya to the village of Borisovka. Pesotsky is the … Read more
Three friends – Alexei Maksimov, Vladislav Karpov and Alexander Zelenin – graduated from the Leningrad Medical Institute. The guys are friends from the first year, despite the difference in character and temperament: Maximov – sharp, ironic, internally vulnerable and therefore “closed”, Karpov – cheerful, favorite girls, Zelenin – a little funny, impetuous, honest and polite. … Read more
The young man-narrator, whom “fate threw for six months in a remote village Perebrod Volyn province, on the outskirts of Polissya,” intolerably misses. His only entertainment is hunting with the servant Yarmola and trying to teach him the last reading and writing. One day, during a terrible blizzard, the hero learns from the usually inconsiderate … Read more
Guys, the chanterelle in the fable is flattering and very tricky, but not at all bad, it can not even be called simple. Willingness and ingenuity do not take her. But the crow on the contrary was a bit stupid, that she believed in the persuasions of the fox and croaked in all her throat, … Read more
I Stolz was a German only for his father, his mother was Russian. Stolz grew up and brought up in the village of Verklev, where his father was the manager. Since childhood, Stolz has been accustomed to the sciences. But Andrei loved and fooled, so he often broke that nose, then the eye. The father … Read more
Tatyana Borisovna – a woman of about 50, with large gray eyes, bulging, ruddy cheeks and a double chin, her face breathes with affection. Widowed, she settled permanently in her little estate. She was born in a poor family and did not receive any upbringing. Despite this, she is not infected with the usual ailments … Read more
In a brief introduction, the author says that this book was written with the aim of shedding light on a very peculiar sphere of life activity in which everything is so dark and vague that every novice pompadour needs explications and interpretations. Well, for example, a boss coming to a new place should know how … Read more