LN Tolstoy Cossacks On an early winter morning from the porch of the Moscow hotel Chevalier, after spending a long time with friends after a long dinner, Dmitry Andreevich Olenin drives off on the
IS Turgenev Notes of the hunter: Date Birch grove. Mid-September. “Since the morning, a light rain has fallen, replaced by a warm sunshine at times, there was a fickle weather, the sky was all
G. H. Andersen Thumbelina A childless woman, on the advice of a sorceress, raised a girl from the grain of a tulip an inch tall – Thumbelina. Cradle for her was a nut shell,
A. P. Chekhov The Soul The daughter of retired collegiate assessor Olenka Plemyannikova often finds her neighbor Kukina, the owner of the entertainment garden “Tivoli”, for complaints about life, the weather, and the uncomfortable
MM Prishvin Zhen-shen After the end of the Russo-Japanese war, I chose a three-line better and set off from Manchuria to Russia. Pretty soon crossed the Russian border, crossed a ridge and on the
In the beginning of 1806 Nikolay Rostov goes home on vacation. He persuades Denisov to stay with him. Nicholas’s house is waiting for a happy meeting. Natasha tries to find out from his brother
Franz Kafka Castle The action takes place in Austria-Hungary, before the November Revolution of 1918 K., a young man of about thirty years, arrives in the Village on a late winter night. He settles
There was one of summer warm days… My friend and I stood and talked near our house. You walked among us, among the flowers and grass that you had on your shoulders, and your
ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH SEROV 1820-1871 Serov – an outstanding representative of Russian musical culture – combined a gifted composer, a widely erudite scientist, a brilliant critic-publicist. Brought up on the ideas of Belinsky, Serov advocated
L. Pirandello Henry IV The action takes place in a secluded villa in rural Umbria at the beginning of the 20th century. The room reproduces the decoration of the throne room of Henry IV,