The storm broke the ship on which the daughter of King Lanka Ratnavali was sailing, intended for the wife of the king of the Vats Udayana. Grasping at the board, Ratnavali escaped, and, found on the shore, she was placed under the name of Sagarika in the care of the first wife of Udayana, Queen … Read more
Krasheninnikov (Krosh). Ivan Semenovich is a school superintendent who always steals a school truck for economic needs. Natalia Pavlovna is a class teacher. Vyacheslav Petrovich – chief engineer, head of practice. Dmitry Alexandrovich – foreman of locksmiths, looks like a Spaniard. Lagutin is a mechanic, an unpleasant type, a rude, dragging out details and driving. … Read more
Prayer before the dam “A poet in Russia is more than a poet.” The author sums up everything that happened before, humbly kneeling, asks for help from the great Russian poets… Give, Pushkin, your melodiousness and your ability, as it were, to burn with a verb. Give, Lermontov, your glance. Give, Nekrasov, the pain of … Read more
The main city of Sichuan Province, which summarizes all the places on the globe and any time in which a person exploits a person, is the place and time of the play. Prologue. For two thousand years the cry has not ceased: it can not go on like this! Nobody in this world is able … Read more
In these parts of the trains went from west to east and back. On both sides of the railway there was a great desert steppe – Sary-Ozeki. Yedigei worked at the Boranly-Burannyi exit. At night, to inform about Kazangap’s death, his wife, Ukubala, crept into his booth. Yedigei was demobilized thirty years ago, after concussion, … Read more
Kalidasa Cloud-Herald A certain yakshas, a demigod of the suite of the wealth god and the ruler of the northern mountains of Kubera, exiled by his master for some offense far to the south, at the end of summer, when all who are out of the house, especially yearning for their loved ones, sees a … Read more
Chekhov was then Antosh Chekhonte, and the author-narrator was a little schoolboy. In the summer the boy with his friend Zhenya disappears in the Neskuchny garden. They built wigwams, played Indians. Then they moved to the Eskimos, engaged in fishing in the Meshchansky Garden in the ponds (at the Meshchansky School). Karasay was very much, … Read more
Moscow. December 1946. Evening. Great Hall of the Conservatory. Victor sits down on the empty seat next to the girl. The girl tells him that the place is occupied, since she came with a friend. However, Victor shows her his ticket and describes the girl who sold it to him. In it, Gel – and … Read more
To Sherlock Holmes, Dr Percy Trevelyan is asking for help. Having graduated with honors from the University, the young doctor wanted to devote himself to the research of nervous illnesses, even wrote a monogram, but he did not have the means to carry out his plans. Suddenly, a certain Mr. Blessington came to him, suffering … Read more
Captain Gerillo was ordered to help the people of Badam to fight the invasion of ants. The captain suspected that the authorities simply mock him. He was a Creole and had a purely Portuguese notion of etiquette and discipline. He trusted only Holroyd and Lancashire, a young engineer on the ship. In this journey through … Read more