AP Chekhov Gooseberries Ivan Ivanovich Chimsh-Himalayan and Burkin enter the estate of the poor landowner Alyokhin, who himself works in his fields, despite the brilliant education he received. Ivan Ivanovich tells Burkin and Alekhine about his younger brother Nicolae. They spent their childhood in the village and loved life in nature forever. Nikolai had worked … Read more
JG Byron Cain The mystery, whose action unfolds in the “locality near paradise,” opens the scene of the ascension of prayer to Jehovah. All the few “mankind” participate in the prayer: the Adam and Eve, their sons Cain and Abel, the daughters of Hell and Sella, and the children conceived by the daughters of Adam … Read more
Having received an invitation from the well-known Pushkinist Schweitzer to come to Mikhailovskoye, the Leningrad restorer Nikolai Vermel put aside his urgent work on the frescoes of the Trinity Church in Novgorod and, along with his partner and pupil Pakhomov, went to Schweitzer, who rummaged in the Mikhailovsky Museum in the hope of finding unknown … Read more
RM Rilke Notes of Malta by Laurides Brigg The hero of the narrative, a twenty-eight-year-old Maltese Dane of Malta, Laurides Brigg, the last representative of the noble family, finds herself in Paris all alone and on the verge of poverty. His observations now focus on how the outcasts live in Paris: doss-houses, the chloroform stench … Read more
M. Ye. Saltykov-Shchedrin wrote his novel “The Lord of the Golovlevs” in 1875-1880. Originally, the novel was published in separate stories in the satirical chronicle “Well-intentioned speeches.” But later the author decided that these stories should be combined into one great work. To the existing five chapters, he added two more, finalized the previously published … Read more
Ikharev, who appeared in the city tavern, meticulously asked the tavern servant Alexei about the lodgers: who are those, whether they play, only between themselves and where they take cards; generously rewards his understanding and goes to the general hall to reduce his acquaintance. Appear Krugel and Shvokhnev and get to know Gavryushka, the servant … Read more
“Death in Rome” is a complex multifaceted work. And the title and content of his echo with the already mentioned novel by Thomas Mann “Death in Venice.” In the novel by Thomas Mann it is told about the death of writer Gustav Ashenbach, who was caught up in a spiritual and creative impasse. In “Death … Read more
LN Andreev The story of the seven hung The old, fat, sickly sick man sits in someone else’s house, in someone else’s bedroom, in someone else’s chair and looks at his body with bewilderment, listens to his feelings, tries hard and can not quite master thoughts in his head : “Fools!” They think that when … Read more
Rui Diaz de Bivar, nicknamed Sid, on the scourge of the enemies lost the location of his lord, the king of Castile, Alphonse, and was sent into exile. In order to leave the Castilian limits, Cid was given nine days, after which the royal squad received the right to kill him. Having collected vassals and … Read more
SADKO Opera-epic in seven scenes Libretto by NA Rimsky-Korsakov and VI Belsky Characters: Foma Nazarjic Luka Zinovyich } The foreman and governor, The abbots of Novgorod Tenor Bass Sadko, guslar and singer in Novgorod Liubava Buslaevna, his young wife Unsharp, young guslar from Kiev-city Tenor Mezzo soprano Contralto Duda Sopel 1 st, 2 nd } … Read more