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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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