Summary Sergey Sergeevich Prokofiev

SERGEY SERGEYEVICH PROKOFIEV 1891-1953 Among the largest Soviet composers, Prokofiev is one of the first. His rich artistic heritage was widely recognized in the Soviet Union and abroad. Prokofiev left more than 130 works, including 8 operas, 7 symphonies, oratorios and cantatas, instrumental concerts and ensembles, numerous piano works, romances, songs, music for theater and … Read more

“Psoglavtsy” Jirasek in brief summary

In the preface to the novel, a famous Czech writer briefly tells the story of the moves – the border guards. “From ancient times, the natural and reliable protection of the Czech kingdom was served by dense forests.” Then they began to cut down, but along the edges of the royal forests, in the valleys, … Read more

Summary Russian Forest

L. M. Leonov Russian Forest A young girl with a sonorous name Apollinary Vikhrova (actually, everyone calls her Paul) comes after school in Moscow to study. Her mother stayed there, on the Yenge, in the Pashutinsky forestry, but her father was a professor in the capital, a specialist in the forest. Only to see him, … Read more

Summary “The History of Pugachev”

Emelyan Pugachev was an ordinary subject of Russia, born in 1742 and (presumably), in the village of Zimoveyska. However, at that time no one suspected that historians would actively study the history of Pugachev’s uprising in the future. Briefly his biography can be described as follows: in 1769 he passed military service, participating in the … Read more

My uncle’s library

Rodolphe Tepfer Library of my uncle. The action takes place at the beginning of the XIX century. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the protagonist. In the secluded quarter of Geneva, in a house located near St. Paul’s Cathedral and the episcopal prison, a young contemplative is growing up, who soon lost his parents … Read more

“The Minor” of Fonvizin in brief summary

The village of the landowners Prostakov. Mistress Prostakova in anger: the fortress tailor Trishka, she believes, sewed too narrow a caftan to her beloved son, a sixteen-year-old underbog Mitrofanushka. Trishka is justified by the fact that he did not study tailoring, but the lady does not want to listen. Her husband, Prostakov, a narrow-minded and … Read more

Summary of Life

Guy de Maupassant Life Northwest France. Rouen. The May morning of 1819, Jeanne, a blond girl with blue agate eyes, the daughter of Baron Le Perthieux de Vaux, herself puts the suitcases and looks out the window again: the rain does not cease… And so you want to go! Jeanne has just returned to her … Read more

“The Lord of the Rings” by Tolkien in brief

Sixty years have passed since the return of Hobbit Bilbo Baggins to the Shire. He is one hundred and ten years old, but outwardly he does not change at all. This brings the wizard Gandalf to a frightening thought: the magic Ring, stolen by Bilbo from Gollum, is in fact the Ring of Power. Millennia … Read more

Summary Oblomov Ivan Goncharov

IA Goncharov Oblomov In St. Petersburg, on Gorokhovaya Street, in the same, as always, morning, lies in bed, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov – a young man of thirty-two to thirty-three, not burdening himself with special occupations. His lying is a certain way of life, a kind of protest against the existing conventions, because Ilya Ilyich so … Read more

Summary “Great at Your Choice”

Great by choice. In the library you can download the book only for reference. This book is not about any one individual company from ours. Book J. My colleague, to. How the great ones perish. Oh, it’s ugly of course, but thanks for the direct link to download. This audiobook tells how a good company … Read more