Yuri Osipovich Dombrovsky (May 12, 1909, Moscow – May 29, 1978, Moscow) – Russian poet, novelist, literary critic. He grew up in an intelligent family: his father – Joseph Vitalievich (Gedalevich) Dombrovsky, sworn attorney
Peter Blood takes on board his ship four Spaniards, shipwrecked. One of them is don Ilario de Saavedra, the new governor of Hispaniola, who arrived in the New World to assist the Marquise Riconete
Earlier, 12-year old Vasya Mandzhura with friends – Yusik Starodomsky nicknamed Kunitsa, Petka Maremukha and Sasha Bobyr – studied at the city’s higher school. Most of all the teachers liked the historian Lazarev. He
The scene of action is Bonn, the time of action roughly coincides with the date of creation of the novel. The very narrative is a long monologue by Hans Schnir, a comic actor or,
The narrative begins with the description of Nevsky Prospekt, its beauties, which no inhabitant “will exchange for all good”. A prospectus is described in the morning when it is still empty and it is
Yearning for strong and harsh passions, which he did not find in the reality surrounding him, Flaubert turned to a profound history. He settled his heroes in the III century. BC. e. and chose
From the cosmic height, the “sad Demon” observes the wild and wonderful world of the central Caucasus: as a facet of a diamond, Kazbek flashes, the Terek jumps with a lioness, Daryal’s gorge curls
The glory of the strongest owner on the Don farm in Vikhlyaevsky is firmly held by the one-legged Kholyusha, according to the passport Burbolomei Vikhlyantsev, seventy years of age. So he survived until the
MM Zoshchenko The Blue Book Once Zoshchenko was with Gorky. And so Gorky says to him: but what would you, Mikhal Mikhalych and all that, not write in this fantastic, if I may say,
LF Chukovskaya Sofya Petrovna USSR, 30-ies. After her husband’s death, Sofya Petrovna entered the typing course to obtain a specialty and to be able to support herself and her son Kolya. Being literate and