The site of the novel is the homeland of the author, the forests of the southern province of Verand, to be more exact, the Brendabol village. People living in the twelve courtyards of Brendbol are dependent on a new neighbor – the landowner Cleven, who came from Germany: he serves at the court of the … Read more
Wise Answers The soldier comes home from service, after serving twenty-five years. Everyone asked him about the tsar, but he did not even see him in person. The soldier goes to the palace to see the king, who is testing the soldier and making various riddles. The soldier so reasonably answers that the king remains … Read more
VG Korolenko The Paradox Jan Krishtof Zaluski is the main character. A cripple who has no hands from birth; he has a big head, a pale face “with moving sharp features and large, penetrating running eyes.” “The body was very small, the shoulders narrow, the breasts and abdomen were not visible from under a broad … Read more
Wilkie Collins Woman in white The action takes place in England in 1850. The young London artist Walter Hartright, on the recommendation of his friend, the Italian professor Pesca, receives the place of a drawing teacher in Limmeridge in Cumberland, on the estate of Frederick Fairley, Esq. Before leaving, Walter comes to say goodbye to … Read more
The biggest house on the Arbat is between Nikolsky and the Money Lanes. In it there live four former classmates. Three of them: Sasha Pankratov, the secretary of the Komsomol cell of the school, the son of the lifter Maxim Kostin and Nina Ivanova – were a cohesive group of activists in the school. They … Read more
The story of usurer Gobsek, the solicitor Dervil tells in the cabin of the viscountess de Grandlieu – one of the most distinguished and wealthy ladies in the aristocratic Saint-Germain suburb. Once in the winter of 1829-30, two guests sat by her: the young handsome Count Ernest de Resto and Derville, who was accepted simply … Read more
V. S. Makanin Klyucharev and Alimushkin “A man suddenly noticed that the more luck he has in his life, the less luck he has for some other person,” he remarked casually, and even unexpectedly, “It did not please the man.” But it turned out that way or almost so. .. “ A typical researcher, Klyucharev, … Read more
On the Law given by Moses, and on the Grace and Truth revealed by Jesus Christ, and how the Law passed, and Grace and Truth filled the whole earth, and faith spread throughout all nations up to our Russian people; and praise to our great prince Vladimir, to whom we were baptized; and prayer to … Read more
In 1927 A. Platonov’s story “The Sandy Teacher” was written. The prototype of the main character was the bride of the writer M. Kashintsev, who, like Maria Naryshkina from the work, was engaged in the elimination of illiteracy in a remote village near Voronezh. In the story, Platonov refers to the theme of the struggle … Read more
From England to Russia A hero, a young man, talks about his travels through foreign lands. We do not know his name or age. We only know that England was the extreme limit of his journey, where he told himself that it was time to return to the fatherland, and sat in London on a … Read more