VM Garshin Red Flower The most famous story of Garshin. Not being strictly autobiographical, he nevertheless absorbed the personal experience of the writer, suffering from manic-depressive psychosis and suffered an acute form of the disease in 1880. A new patient is brought to the provincial psychiatric hospital. He buen, and the doctor can not remove … Read more
GUEGENETS Opera in five acts Libretto by E. Scribe and E. Deschamps Characters: Marguerite Valois, the bride of Henry IV Count de Saint-Brie, Catholic, Governor of the Louvre Valentine, his daughter Soprano Bass Soprano Baritone Tenor Tenor Bass Bass Bass Tenor Bass Mezzo soprano Tenor Bass Comte de Nevers Cosset Tavanna Torah DeRetz Meryu } … Read more
KS Prichard The Nineties The novel “Nineties” is the first part of the famous trilogy, which also includes the novels Golden Miles (1948) and Winged Seeds (1950). The trilogy covers sixty years of Australian history, dating back to the nineties of the last century. It has the same heroes; their fate and relations the writer … Read more
The novel takes place after the revolution of 1917, during the Civil War. A huge flow of people – either a camp of immigrants, or an army – entered the Cossack village. Cossacks are not alone, only women and children. On the mound near the windmill rally. The people shout, rebel, want to disperse, but … Read more
AA Bestuzhev Blood for Blood The action of a pseudo-historical story takes place near Narva near the remains of Eisen Castle, with which the local population has many memories. The cruel Baron Bruno von Eisen was in power in this strong castle. He did a lot of black in his Livonian region, sometimes he also … Read more
A. Chekhov Teacher of Literature The teacher of Russian language and literature in a small provincial town Sergey Vasilievich Nikitin is in love with the daughter of a local landowner Masha Shelestova, eighteen years old, who “has not yet been considered to be small in the family” and therefore calls her Maney and Manyusey, and … Read more
The story begins with a description of the marketplace. Around silence. The open doors of shops and taverns look dejected, like hungry mouths, near them there are not even beggars. Across the square there is police inspector Ochumelov in a new overcoat and with a knot in his hand. Behind him – the policeman Eldyrin … Read more
John Galsworthy Saga of Forsytes Owner The action takes place in London in 1886-1887. In the house of the old Jolyon family celebration, a reception in honor of the engagement of Miss June Forsythe with Mr. Philip Bosini. There are many guests, the family is very numerous. Within the Forsyte clan, as in society, the … Read more
The hero of the novel, Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, was born in 1898 in St. Petersburg, in the family of a doctor-oculist. In 1917 his parents died of typhus. Timothy joined the White Army, where he served first as an attendant, and then in the Office of Military Intelligence. In 1919, from the Crimea, taken by … Read more
IS Turgenev Notes of a hunter: Singers A small, poor villager Kolotovka. A few scrawny rakit, a ravine in the middle of the street. “Unhappy look,” but the surrounding residents “go there willingly and often.” Near the ravine stands a separate hut covered with straw. Her window “in the winter evenings, lit from the inside, … Read more