TROUBADOUR Opera in four acts (eight scenes) Libretto by S. Cammarano Characters: Graf di Luna Leonora, the Duchess Azucena, Gypsy Manrico, troubadour Ferrando, the approximate graph Ines, the confidante of Leonora Ruiz, a friend of Manrico The Old Gypsy Messenger Baritone Soprano Mezzo soprano Tenor Bass Soprano Tenor Bass Tenor Leonora’s friends, approximate count, monks, … Read more
Seated in the pit, due to the absence of a special room for the detainees in the partisan detachment, Stepka Tolkach was recounting the circumstances of the last days. He was not lucky with Stepka in this detachment, he was not trusted very much here and served in the economic platoon. And suddenly the demolisher … Read more
Virgil Aeneid When the earth began the age of heroes, the gods often went to mortal women, so that they were born heroes. Another thing – the goddess: they only very rarely went to mortal men to give birth to their sons. So from the goddess Thetis was born the hero of the “Iliad” – … Read more
Sovereign Vladimir arranges a feast with his sons and close friends, as they have a great holiday – the wedding of Lyudochka’s daughter. Everyone is happy about the wedding, except for the three knights. Since all three would like to be in the place of Ruslan’s fiancé. The holiday ends. The Emperor gives the newlyweds … Read more
KD Vorobyov Killed near Moscow The company of the Kremlin cadets goes to the front. The action takes place in November 1941; the front is approaching Moscow. On the way the cadets are met by a special detachment of NKVD troops; when the company comes under the control of an infantry regiment from Moscow militia, … Read more
PI Melnikov On the mountains From the mouth of the Oka to Saratov and further down the right side of the Volga “Mountains” is called. They are engaged here in the field of farming and in various trades. Marco Danilovich Smolokurov in his youth was going to get married together with his elder brother in … Read more
Adam Mickiewicz Dziady The poem reflects some facts of the author’s biography (unhappy love, arrest in Vilna for participating in the activities of circles of patriotic Polish youth, expulsion to the internal gubernias of Russia). The first part of the poem was not finished. In the poetic introduction of the “Ghost”, the suicide youth, having … Read more
AN Ostrovsky On every wise man is rather simple. The action takes place in Moscow, in the first decade of the reforms of Alexander II. The first act of the play is in the apartment where Yegor Dmitrievich Glumov, a young man, lives with his widow mother. In it, according to the author’s remark, is … Read more
The play in verse and prose Bhurivasu, the minister of Padmavati, the king of the city, and Devarata, the minister of the country of Vidarbha, as soon as Bhurivas was given birth to Malati’s daughter, and Devarata’s son Madhava, conspired to betrothed them. But King Padmavati firmly decided to marry Malati for his pet – … Read more
My friend Platon Mikhailovich decided to move to the village. He settled in the house of the late uncle and for the first time was completely blissful. From one kind of huge village uncle’s armchairs, in which it is possible to drown, the spleen has almost passed. To admit, I was surprised at reading these … Read more