The time and place of action of the playwright are not defined, but by all signs events in all three acts occur in the modern author era. The house of the minister. Gol, emphasizing his rights as an old friend of the family, urgently demands from his master’s host Irene to urgently talk with her … Read more
With honors, Wilhelm graduated from the boarding school. Now relatives want to identify him in the newly opened Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum. At Minister Razumovsky at the reception, he meets with Vanya Pushchin, Misha Yakovlev, Anton Delvig. Pushkin Vasily Lvovich brings his nephew Sasha there. In 1811, on the nineteenth of October, the Lyceum was opened. … Read more
A grief happened in the family. His wife Nadenka lost her sanity, and maybe her life. And the fault was their beloved daughter Olenka, or rather her egoism. When was the mistake made, why did the daughter grow up like this, because all the love of the parents was given to her? Once upon a … Read more
L. N. Tolstoy War and Peace The book begins in the summer of 1805 in St. Petersburg. At the evening, the maid of honor Scherer is present among other guests Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a wealthy nobleman, and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. The conversation is about Napoleon, and both friends are trying to protect … Read more
Corneille was born in Rouen, in the family of an official. He graduated from the Jesuit College, received a lawyer position. Once, as the legend tells, one of Corneille’s friends introduced him to his lover, but she preferred Pierre to her former admirer. This story prompted Corneille to write a comedy. Thus appeared his “Melita” … Read more
The protagonist of the narrative, on whose behalf the story is narrated, comes to a seaside resort with the intention of staying there for a long time and fully enjoying the desired rest. He had just received his doctorate, and the young lady he was courting married to another. He feels that the whole chapter … Read more
The action takes place at the beginning of the XIX century. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the protagonist. In the secluded quarter of Geneva, in a house located near St. Paul’s Cathedral and the episcopal prison, a young contemplative is growing up, who soon lost his parents and his guarded uncle. He studies … Read more
Four parts of the novel, four fantastic travels described by Jonathan Swift. “The Adventures of Gulliver” is a utopian work, the author of which wanted to portray modern England to him and using satire to ridicule those or other human qualities. The protagonist constantly sails from the existing port cities, and gets into exotic countries … Read more
Professor Stepan Stepanovich Lozhkin, who spent his entire life successfully dealing with literary monuments of heresies and sects of the XV-XVI centuries, suddenly began to visit “a dangerous thought.” His existence: lecturing, working on manuscripts, relations with his wife – seems to him monotonous and “automatic.” Malvina Eduardovna, being frightened of the manifestations of her … Read more
The biggest house on the Arbat is between Nikolsky and the Money Lanes. In it there live four former classmates. Three of them: Sasha Pankratov, the secretary of the Komsomol cell of the school, the son of the lifter Maxim Kostin and Nina Ivanova – were a cohesive group of activists in the school. They … Read more