Evelyn V A Fistful of Ashes John Beaver, a young man of twenty-five, lives in London at the mother’s house, which is engaged in the repair and rental of apartments. John at the end of Oxford, until the crisis began, he worked in an advertising agency. Since then, nobody has been able to find a … Read more
A lot of people live on the earth, and each of them has his own tales. If you read at least some, you can find in them a lot in common. And this is natural: everywhere people appreciate the mind, kindness, courage, love for the motherland. But there are also differences – nature, living conditions, … Read more
The author begins the narrative by comparing the Oryol and Kaluga peasants, but then he gives an example of how in one place absolutely different people can live, between whom a very friendly relationship has been established. In the Zhizdrinsky district of the Kaluga province, the narrator became acquainted with the small landowner Polutykin. They … Read more
VG Rasputin Farewell to Matera For more than three hundred years on the banks of the Angara, Matera has seen everything in her lifetime. “By the time of the Angara, the bearded Cossacks rose up the Angara up the Irkutsk prison, people who were scurrying to and fro on it spent the night, carrying prisoners … Read more
Volume One The proposed history, as will become clear from the following, occurred somewhat soon after the “glorious expulsion of the French.” In the provincial town of NN comes the college counselor Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and settles in the hotel. He makes a lot of questions to the tavern servant – both regarding the owner … Read more
Action first Vivi Warren is twenty-two years old. She is alive, determined, self-confident, cold-blooded. Growing up far from her mother who lived all her life in Brussels and then in Vienna and never let her daughter come to her, Vivi never knew anything about anything: the owner of the brothels, Mrs. Warren, never stinted in … Read more
Coming to the story of the life of his hero, whom the author regards as “great people”, he seeks to convince the reader that greatness – contrary to the widespread misconception – is incompatible with kindness. The author considers absurd and absurd the desire of the biographers Caesar and Alexander of Macedon to attribute to … Read more
AA Block Twelve The action takes place in revolutionary Petrograd in the winter of 1917-18. Petrograd, however, acts as a concrete city, and as the center of the universe, the place of cosmic cataclysms. The first of the twelve chapters of the poem describes the cold, snow-covered streets of Petrograd, tormented by wars and revolutions. … Read more
The action takes place in Spain at the time of King Don Pedro the Just or the Cruel. During the hunt, the brother of the Infante King, Don Enrique, falls from the horse, and is unconsciously brought into the house of Don Gutierre Alfonso de Solis. They are met by the wife of Don Gutierre, … Read more
They met in December, by accident. When he got to Andrei Bely’s lecture, he roared and laughed so much that she, who happened to be in the chair next to her and at first looked at him with some bewilderment, also laughed. Now every evening he went to her apartment, which she had rented solely … Read more