The novel takes place in Russia in the early 1900s. In the workers’ suburb live factory workers with families, and the whole life of these people is inextricably linked with the factory: in the
The novel is based on the memoirs of Pyotr Andreevich Grinev, a fifty-year-old nobleman, written by him during the reign of Emperor Alexander and dedicated to the “Pugachev”, in which the seventeen-year-old officer Petr
Spring 1924. Lev Glebovich Ganin lives in a Russian boarding school in Berlin. In addition to Ganin, there is a mathematician Aleksey Ivanovich Alferov, a man with a liquid beard and a brilliant plump
This summer morning in the village of Grachi began unusually: with the dawn, all the inhabitants of the house of the poor landowner Anna Pavlovna Adueva were already on their feet. Only the culprit
Events unfold in France eighteen years after the end of the First World War. Gaston, a man who fought against Germany and lost his memory at the end of the war, along with Master
RB Sheridan The Sinister School of Play opens with a scene in the salon of the high-society intriguer Lady Snieruel, who discusses with her confidant Snake the latest achievements in aristocratic ways. These achievements
Serves as a “boy” at a store of “fashionable shoes.” The master seems blind. Makes faces, but the owner notices it. My hands are scratching. The owner said that “rags – it’s worse than
AI Herzen Past and Thoughts Herzen’s book begins with the stories of his nurse about the troubles of the Herzen family in Moscow in 1812, occupied by the French (AI himself then – a
A. Carpentier Turning the Method The title of the novel echoes the name of the famous treatise of the French philosopher of the 17th century. Rene Descartes “The Discourse on the Method.” Carpentier, as
Under Easter Sunday, at the beginning of April, the Most Reverend Peter serves the All-Night Vigil. The church is full of people, the monastic choir sings. The bishop is unwell for three days, he