Someone NN tells how in twenty-five years he went abroad to see the world. He did not have a definite plan of travel, he only wanted new impressions, acquaintances, communication. His heart was broken by a young widow, whom the narrator had met on the water. She preferred him to the Bavarian lieutenant, however, the … Read more
In the village near the city of Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, two children were orphaned. Their mother died of illness, and his father was killed during the Great Patriotic War – so Mitras and Nastya were left alone. They lived very amicably and, like adults, led their own economy. Nastya, imitating her mother, got up early in the … Read more
During the hunting for black grouses in the Chern district of the Tula province, the author lost his way in the forest. He walked a long time in the forest, until by nightfall he came to a vast plain, surrounded by steep hills, Bezhin Lug. Here he noticed, in the gathering darkness, a flame of … Read more
SA Klychkov Sugar German The First World War. Soldiers of the twelfth company – yesterday’s men from the village Chertukhino. Mikolaj Mitrich Zaitsev, the son of the Chertokhin shopkeeper, a young fellow, was recently promoted to an ordinary ensign. Everybody calls him Bunny. He is a master of composing songs. Bunny is a kind and … Read more
Eurikleia is convinced that Mirra does not like Perea: if someone liked Mirra, she would have noticed. In addition, there is no love without hope, while Mirra’s sorrow is desperate, and the girl thirsts for death. Evrikleia would like to die so as not to see the suffering of her pet in the old age. … Read more
A young nobleman, Eugene Onegin, who was very well educated, leaving his father early without a father who “gave three balls every year and got lost at last”, leads a secular way of life, is successful with “decisive and strict judges” and ladies. His day passes in balls, theaters, dinners with friends in the best … Read more
On April 15, 1927, in the city of N, the mother-in-law of Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, the former leader of the nobility, dies. Before her death, she informs him that in one of the chairs of the living room, the headset left in Stargorod, where they fled after the revolution, all the family jewelry has been … Read more
The play traces two story lines, each of which develops independently. The first line is connected with the life and relationships of the inhabitants of the lodging house, the owner of which is Mikhail Ivanovich Kostylev. He is 54 years old and he has a wife Vasilisa Karpovna, who turned 26 years old. Inhabitants of … Read more
Emil Zola Jerminal Mechanic Etienne Lantier, expelled from the railroad for a slap to the chief, is trying to get a job at the Monsu mine, near Vore, in the village of Two Hundred Soroca. There is no work anywhere, the miners are starving. The place for him at the mine was found only because … Read more
“To write a story of your life, you must first live this life, so I do not write about myself” – these are the opening words of the author, who planned to cure his story of “monstrous moral illness”, the illness of the century that struck his contemporaries after the Revolution of 1793 and rout … Read more