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 of the Jewish confession; mother – Lydia Alekseevna (born Krainev), Evangelical Lutheran confession, biologist. In 1932, Yuri Osipovich graduated from the … Read more
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 in the capture of Captain Blood. In spite of this circumstance, Blad provides medical assistance to the Spaniard and delivers him … Read more
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 told many interesting things about the Old Fortress towering above the border Ukrainian town, and even promised to take the guys … Read more
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, more simply, a clown. Hans is twenty-seven years old, and he recently survived the heaviest blow of fate – he left … Read more
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 possible to see only the working people going to the service or a sleepy official. At twelve o’clock in the afternoon … Read more
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 a real episode – when the famous Carthaginian commander Hamilcar Barca, with unprecedented cruelty, suppressed an uprising of mercenary troops. It … Read more
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 like a serpent-and nothing but contempt. Evil is bored with the spirit of evil. Everyone is a burden: an indefinite loneliness, … Read more
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 moment when they allowed the peasants, “so all the more kept.” And then, after all, the cunning had to start up, … Read more
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, manner the whole history of mankind? To, therefore, your hero, a man in the street, understood everything and got it out … Read more
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 accurate and having received the highest qualification, she easily gets a job in a large Leningrad publishing house and soon becomes … Read more