Last autumn, Tanabai came to the collective farm office, and the brigadier said to him: “We picked you a horse, a horse.” They are getting old, true, but for your work will come down. ” Tanabai saw the pacer, and his heart ached. “So I saw each other again and again,” he said to the … Read more
In the forest, next to the estate of the Chinese emperor, lived a nightingale. And he sang so beautifully that the poor fisherman, having heard, temporarily did not remember his seine. The wanderers who arrived in the area admired the magnificent singing of the bird and believed that the emperor had nothing better than a … Read more
Tonio Creger is a writer, the protagonist of a novel, a representative of the “spirit”, who, although aware of his superiority over representatives of “life,” still does not despise it, since he understands that “if anything can be done from the poet’s literature, how time… a love for the human, living, ordinary “, and without … Read more
LN Tolstoy Caucasian Prisoner Served in the Caucasus officer Zhilin. He received a letter from his mother and decided to go on vacation home. But along the way, and another Russian officer, Kostylin was seized by Tatars (because of Kostylin, since Kostylin had to cover Zilin, but when he saw the Tatars he began to … Read more
February 27, 1815 in Marseille from the next voyage returns three-masted ship “Pharaoh”. Captain LeClair was not destined to set foot on his native land: he died of fever in the open sea. The young sailor Edmond Dantes took over the command and executed another last will of the captain: “Pharaoh” comes to the island … Read more
The events described in the novel take place in the 14th century AD in a medieval Italian monastery. In the rich Benedictine monastery comes the famous religious figure of that time Wilhelm Baskervilsky with his assistant Adson Otrantsky (it is from his words that we are presented with all that has happened). Wilhelm arrived at … Read more
A. P. Chekhov In the ravine Utleevo village is well-known for the fact that “at the funeral at the factory owner Kostyukov the old man saw among the snacks a large caviar and began to eat it greedily, he was pushed and pulled by the sleeve, but he seemed to be numb with pleasure: he … Read more
In the summer of 1944, all of Byelorussia and a significant part of Lithuania were liberated by our troops. But in these territories there were many enemy agents, scattered groups of German soldiers, gangs, underground organizations. All these illegal forces acted suddenly and brutally: they already had a lot of murders and other crimes, in … Read more
The protagonist of the story is a journalist who was left without work. At the moment, he watches the newspaper clippings he collected over the last ten years. These ten years were years of pretense and lies, and now, looking through the yellowed sheets, he read texts that can be called compromises, but in reality … Read more
On the Feast of the Ascension, about three o’clock in the afternoon, a young man, a student named Anselm, was swiftly crossing the Black Gate in Dresden. Accidentally, he overturned a huge basket of apples and pies, which was sold by an ugly old woman. He gave his old wallet to the old woman. The … Read more