In 1429, Jeanne d’Arc, a young peasant woman from Domremy, took charge of the French army and for a year changed the course of the Hundred Years War between England and France. The turning
AM Volodin Five Evenings The action takes place in Leningrad. Evening the first. In the room sit Zoya and Ilyin. Zoya is a saleswoman in a deli. Ilyin in Leningrad on vacation, he lives
The play unfolds throughout the day in London, in the mansion of the couple of Chilterns and in the apartment of Lord Goring, in the early 1890’s. A party in the octagonal hall of
The poem begins with a description of the Moscow ball. The guests came together, the elderly ladies in magnificent dresses sit near the walls and look at the crowd with “dull attention”. Grandees in
Riders are not just horsemen: the so-called Athenians called the whole estate those who had the money to keep the warhorse. They were wealthy people, they had small estates outside the city, they lived
Banabhatta Kadambari Roman in prose, left unfinished and finished, according to legend, the son of Bana – Bhushana. To the king Shudrake comes a girl from the caste of the untouchables (candals) and gives
Maxim Gorky Passion-mordashi In a provincial town, a young merchant of Bavarian kvass meets a walking woman in the evening. She, drunk, stands in a puddle and stomps her feet, sprinkling mud like children.
MOTHER Opera in four acts (eight scenes) Libretto by AM Fiko Characters: Pelageya Nilovna Pavel Vlasov, her son Sashenka Andrei Nakhodka Mezzo soprano Baritone Soprano Bass Weightsmen Samoilov Mazin Bukin } Workers, Paul’s friends
A room littered with all sorts of junk. In the back wall there is a window curtained with sacking. A bucket is suspended from the ceiling. In the room there are two iron beds,
The first, second and third actions occur in the winter of 1918, the fourth act – in early 1919. The scene of action is the city of Kiev. Action first Scene 1 Evening. Apartment