The heroes of the novel are mostly not named by their names. Among the listeners of the Traveler’s story are the Psychologist, A very young man, the Provincial Mayor, the Doctor and others. They are present at the return of the Traveler from the future, which appears in front of his guests not in the … Read more
Emil Zola Creativity Claude Lantier, an artist, hanged himself in his studio before the unfinished painting in November 1870. His wife, Christina, posing for this picture and excruciatingly jealous of her, lost her mind from grief. Claude lived in complete poverty. He left nothing but a few sketches: the last and the main picture, a … Read more
NIKOLAI VITALEVICH LYSENKO 1842-1912 The founder of the Ukrainian national composer school, Lysenko was the largest connoisseur of folk songs and a musical and public figure, choral conductor and pianist. His musical heritage includes operas, cantatas, romances, piano pieces and other instruments. The outstanding talent of the composer was most fully manifested in the field … Read more
The action takes place in the early 60’s. XX century. in Switzerland, in a private lunatic asylum “The Cherry Orchard”. The sanatorium, thanks to the efforts of its mistress, the hunchbacked Fraulein Matilda von Tsang, a doctor of medicine, and donations from various charitable societies, is expanding. New buildings are being built, where the most … Read more
Late in the evening a passenger train Moscow-Sevastopol stopped at one of the stations. He made a stop somewhere outside Podolsk and it was unplanned. The lady from the first class car asked the conductor why the train stopped. From him received an answer that they miss the late courier staff. The station was already … Read more
A diary? Well no! Rather, notes, notes, memories – more correctly, physiology. And now the hero is already on the train, rushing him from the Russian province to the Russian capital, the car is full of the same like him, the provincials, and the provincial complains that nowhere else in the province can hide, thinks … Read more
1945. The unusual family of Jordahs lives in the city of Port-Philippe. Nobody loves anyone in this family. Father, Axel Jordah, works in his own bakery and hates this work, and this country. His wife believes that he ruined her life and her dreams. Raised in strict rules in the monastic shelter, she sees the … Read more
E. M. Remarque Three comrades Germany after the First World War. Economic crisis. The ruined fates of people and their souls. As one of the heroes of the novel says, “we live in an era of despair.” Three school and then front-line comrades – Robert Lokamp, Gottfried Lenz, Otto Kester – work in a car … Read more
Two years later, Pantelei Jeremyich Chertopkhanov was hit with all sorts of disasters. The first of them was the most sensitive for him: Masha left him. Chertopkhanov was convinced that the fault of the Machine of Infidelity was a young neighbor, the retired Uhlan captain Yaff, but the reason for everything was the vagrant gypsy … Read more
AI Kuprin Kindergarten The daughter of the senior scribe of the orphaned court Burminova Sashenka fell ill. The doctor diagnosed: “apathy, anemia and rickety build” and prescribed a medicine – fresh air, Crimea, sea bathing and good nutrition. But with a father’s salary, there’s nothing to think about. However, Sasha does not want anything – … Read more