In a small German town on the banks of the Rhine, a child is born to the Kraft family of musicians. The first, still unclear perception of the surrounding world, the warmth of the mother’s hands, the tender sound of the voice, the sensation of light, darkness, thousands of different sounds… The ringing of a … Read more
G. H. Andersen Wild Swans The king had 11 sons and 1 daughter. The royal children lived well and carefree, until the stepmother appeared, who gave Elisa for education in the village, and turned the brothers into swans – they flew away. Beauty Eliza every day more and more beautiful, but all the time she … Read more
This story began in the early December evening in 1793. The draft horses slowly pulled a massive sledge up the mountain. In them sat father and daughter. The father was a respected judge, who was called like Marmaduke Temple, and his beautiful daughter is Miss Elizabeth. This small family were simple settlers. They were among … Read more
E. L. Schwartz Ordinary Miracle Manor in the Carpathian Mountains. Here, after marrying and deciding to settle down and take up farming, a wizard settled. He is in love with his wife and promises to live like everyone else, but the soul asks for something magical, and the owner of the estate is unable to … Read more
Sophocles Oedipus in Colon Colon – a place to the north of Athens. There was a sacred grove of goddesses Evmenid, terrible guardians of the truth – those about which Aeschylus wrote in “Oresteia”. Among this grove stood an altar in honor of the hero Oedipus: it was believed that this Theban hero is buried … Read more
Stanislav Lem Iyon Tikhiy’s star diaries are Ion Tikhiy’s “famous star-explorer, captain of long-distance galactic navigation, a hunter for meteors and comets, a tireless explorer who discovered eighty thousand three worlds, an honorary doctorate of the Universities of Both Bear, a member of the Trusteeship of Small Planets and many other societies, the Chevalier of … Read more
BONNOOSEC “POTEMKIN” Opera in four acts (seven scenes) Libretto by S. Spassky and V. Chulisov Characters: Vakulenchuk Gregory, artillery Non-commissioned officer of the armadillo Grunya, his wife, party worker Matyushenko Athanasius, mine-engine Quartermaster Bass Mezzo soprano Lyrico Drama Tenor Kachura Petro Zavoloshin Kostenko } Sailors of the Battleship Baritone Tenor Bass Baritone Kokhanov, commander of … Read more
Jean Racine Iphigenia The action takes place in Aulis, in the camp of Agamemnon. The yearning king awakens the faithful servant of Arkas. He is extremely surprised by the dejected kind of his master: the descendant of the gods Agamemnon favors in everything – not without reason his daughter wants to marry the unshakable warrior … Read more
Motley dog with big paws and muzzle carotid lay across the full length of the porch, necessarily across to whoever is going – for him and he paused to track broke into the house. In the house Trezor immediately climbed under the table, freely there stretched; if his legs were placed on him, they attacked … Read more
“Sebastian Knight was born on December 31, 1899 in the former capital of my fatherland” – this is the first phrase of the book. Her younger brother Knight, pronounced in the novel by the letter “V.”, pronounces it. Sebastian Knight, the famous writer, a native of Russia, who wrote in English, died in January 1936 … Read more