A. Sinyavsky Lyubimov In a fairy tale narrates about a strange story that happened to an ordinary Belorussian inhabitant Lene Tikhomirov. Until then, there had been no miraculous events at Lyubimov, which was under
Voltaire Orleans virgin The action of this satirical poem takes place during the Hundred Years War between France and England (1337-1453). Some contemporaries of Voltaire said that the author, ridiculing Jeanne d’Arc, treated her
The middle of the XVII century. Instituted by the Fronde, the people of Paris murmur: the deputies, the merchants, the judiciary are outraged by the policies of Cardinal Mazarin, who sucks out all the
In anticipation of the young landowner Eletskaya, who married a St. Petersburg official, the whole estate is buzzing with preparations. Finally, the young people come. They were trained with bread and salt and musicians.
The appearance of a new person in the village is always an event. When in the summer of 184 … a new home teacher appeared in the rich estate of the Islaevs, the already
Among the passengers of a large ocean boat sailing from New York to Buenos Aires is the world chess champion Mirko Centovic. A more informed friend of the narrator reports that Mirko was orphaned
A young American with the biblical name Ishmael, bored with being on land and having difficulty with money, decides to go sailing on a whaling ship. In the first half of the XIX century.
In the winter night of 1826, Princess Ekaterina Trubetskaya went after her decembrist husband to Siberia. The old Count, the father of Catherine Ivanovna, with tears strews a bearish cavity into the carriage, which
In St. Petersburg, in the rich house of Zvezdintsevs, in front of the mirror, admires the beautiful and depraved lackey Grigory, lazily responding to the repeated calls of Vasily Leonidich, the master’s son, flirting
Everything is whiter than the edge of the mountains, here they are lighted up a little. The clouds, touched by purple, spread thinly over the sky with thin ribbons. No words, she is beautiful