The trilogy covers the period from 1310 to 1349 when the plague devastated Europe reached Norway. Father Christine came from a Swedish family, known as the Sons of Lagman. Three generations of this family lived in Norway, but at times they were reminded that they were strangers here. At the age of eighteen, Laurence, the … Read more
M. M. de Lafayette Princess Klevskaya The novel takes place in the middle of the 16th century. Madame de Chartres, for many years after her husband’s death, lived away from the court, and her daughter comes to Paris. Mademoiselle de Chartres goes to the jeweler to choose jewelry. There she accidentally meets the Prince of … Read more
A huge dirty school room. Classes are over, and bursaks play games. Most recently, the “period of violent education” ended, when everyone, regardless of age, had to undergo a full course of science. Now the “law of overgrown age” began to operate: after reaching a certain age, a bursak is expelled from school, and he … Read more
The narrative is alternated on behalf of two artists – Dedov and Ryabinin, contrasted with each other. Grandfather, a young engineer, having received a small inheritance, leaves the service to devote himself entirely to painting. He works hard, writes and writes landscapes and is perfectly happy if he manages to capture a spectacular play of … Read more
The word about the Grand Duke Dmitri Ivanovich and his brother, Prince Vladimir Andreevich, how they defeated the adversary of his Tsar Mamai. Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich and his brother, Prince Vladimir Andreevich, was at the feast of the Moscow governor. And he said: “The news came to us, brothers, that King Mamai is standing … Read more
The jets of the outgoing river… They are continuous; but they are all not the same, old waters. Through the windmills floating foam bubbles… they then disappear, they will contact again, but for a long time to stay – is not given to them. People that are born, that they die… where do they come … Read more
A rich merchant is going to set up trade affairs in the far-away kingdom, in the thirtieth state. Before leaving, he asks his three daughters what kind of gifts they should bring. The eldest asked for a golden crown, the middle mirror of crystal, and the youngest – the most beloved – a scarlet flower, … Read more
Once in the spring I was sitting in the Mariinsky Park and reading Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Sister Galya sat next to her and also read. Her summer hat with green ribbons lay on a bench. The wind moved the tapes, Galya was shortsighted, very trusting, and it was almost impossible to get her out of … Read more
The novel “Autumn Light” takes place in the American province, far from the big cities. The quiet life of small towns, far from the senseless fuss and the frenzied rhythm of megacities, is not alien to the “accursed” problems of technocratic civilization, the dark, vile sides of big business and big politics. Heroes of the … Read more
London, the middle of the XVI century. On the same day, two boys are born – Tom, the son of the thief John Kenti, huddling in the stinking cul-de-sac Yard Courtyard, and Edward, heir to King Henry the Eighth. Edward is waiting for all of England, Tom does not really need even his own family, … Read more