Narration – from a third party. Many dialogues. The plot is dynamic, eventful, largely melodramatic. Ended the last evening of Yegor Prokudin in the zone. In the morning, the chief is admonishing him. We learn that Yegor dreams about his farm, the cow. His future wife is Lyubov Fyodorovna Baikalova. He never saw her, they … Read more
“Pied Piper” – the first poem Tsvetaeva, written in exile, in Prague. This is a prophecy about the fate of the Russian revolution, the romantic period of which ended and began a deadly, bureaucratic, dictatorial one. It is the verdict of any utopia about the possibility of a people’s celebration, people’s power. This is a … Read more
Eliza Ozheshko Above the Neman The action takes place in the vicinity of the cities of Vilno and Grodno, in estates and villages located above the Neman. Recently, in 1863, the January uprising was suppressed. The tsarist government seeks to deprive the Poles of the possibility of considering these lands their own. The estates of … Read more
The plot of this novel by a well-known Italian writer, philologist and historian of literature falls on the beginning of the seventies of the XX century, a time when youth riots were still raging in Italy. However, the “political choice” of the narrator, a student at the Milan University of Casobone, becomes, in his own … Read more
The action takes place in a county town, in the house of merchant Tortsov, during Svyatok. Action first Day. A small steward’s room. In the depths of the door, to the left there is a window, near the window there is a table and a chair, in the corner there is a bed with a … Read more
Nazib Gayazovich Zhiganov The genus. in 1911 Zhiganov is a talented Soviet composer, the largest representative of the Tatar musical culture. His work is characterized by a close connection with the poetic and musical folklore of the Tatar people, the ideas of modernity, a deep interest in the spiritual order, the moral ideals of the … Read more
Turgenev’s story “Bezhin Meadow” was first published in 1851 in the journal Sovremennik. The work entered the author’s cycle of short stories “Notes of a Hunter”. The essay refers to the literary direction of realism, but it also contains features of romanticism. Main characters The narrator is a hunter, a narrative is narrated from his … Read more
V. F. Tendryakov Death Action takes place in the village Fires collective farm “The power of labor.” The people gather near the house of the dying chairman. Evlampiy Nikitich Lykov was famous not only in the region, but also in the country. Everyone understands that changes are coming, and they remember those thirty years that … Read more
Moonstone – a huge yellow diamond – from time immemorial decorated the bosom of the moon god in one of the temples of the sacred Indian city of Somnaut. In the XI century, saving the statue from the Mohammedan conquerors, the three brahmins transported it to Benares. It was there that the gods of Vishnu … Read more
Eliza, the daughter of Harpagon, and the young Wahler fell in love for a long time, and it happened under very romantic circumstances – Valer rescued the girl from the tumultuous sea waves when the ship on which they both sailed crashed. Valer’s feeling was so strong that he settled in Paris and acted as … Read more