RUSLAN AND LUDMILA Opera in five acts (eight scenes) Characters: Svetozar, the Grand Duke of Kiev Lyudmila, his daughter Ruslan, the Kiev hero, the groom of Lyudmila Ratmir, Prince of Khazar Farlaf, Knight of Varangian Gorislav, captive of Ratmir Finn, kind wizard Naina, the evil sorceress Bayan, singer Chernomor, an evil wizard, Carla Bass Soprano … Read more
JD Passos USA The trilogy included novels “42 parallel”, “1919” and “Big Money” (1936, not translated into Russian). They give a general picture of America’s life in the first three decades of the twentieth century: “42 parallel” – the rise of the labor movement in the United States; “1919” – the First World War and … Read more
G. E. Lessing Minna von Barnhelm, or Soldier’s Happiness The retired Major Von Tellheim lives in a Berlin hotel with his faithful servant Just, with no means of subsistence. The owner of the hotel moves him from a decent room to a miserable little room. The last two months, Tellheym did not pay bills, but … Read more
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When we think of good stories, Chekhov, Turgenev, Bunin come to mind more often. But a mistake would be to think that, for example, in the second half of the 20th century there is no worthy representative of this genre. We bring to the attention of the reader a work (short summary) of Kazakova’s “Quiet … Read more
James Jones From now on and forever The protagonist of the narrative – Private Robert Lee Pruit – was born and spent his childhood in the mines in Garlan village, which in the thirties became known throughout America thanks to a strike of miners brutally suppressed by the police. In this strike the father of … Read more
The action takes place in the late 70’s. our century. Moscow. House on Tverskoi Boulevard. Kai Leonidov lives in a spacious three-room apartment. His mother with his stepfather abroad, they left for several years, so he lives alone. One day a girl Nelya comes to his apartment. She is nineteen years old. She came from … Read more
AN Radishchev Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow The story opens with a letter to a friend Alexei Mikhailovich Kutuzov, in which Radishchev explains his feelings that made this book write. This is a kind of blessing for work. Departure Having said goodbye to friends, the author-narrator leaves, suffering from parting. He dreams that he … Read more
The narrative “beginning” of the four-part poem boils down to several lines about a flawlessly educated English youth from a very distinguished family, a secular dandy who, by nineteen years, was fed up with pleasures, disillusioned with the intellectual abilities of his countrymen, the charm of compatriots, and set off on a journey. In the … Read more
German anti-fascists – dead and alive – are devoted to this book. The action takes place in Germany in several villages around the Vestgofen Concentration Camp. Chapter first The narrative is led by one of the prisoners, but it is not clear who, because he always says “we”. Near the barracks number three were cut … Read more