Shantaram is a novel by Australian writer Gregory David Roberts. First published in Australia, in 2003. In 2010 he went to Russia. The basis for the book was the events of the author’s own life. The main action of the novel takes place in India, in Bombay (Mumbai) in the 1980s. Plot The protagonist is … Read more
VV Nabokov Pnin The hero of the novel, Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, was born in 1898 in St. Petersburg, in the family of an ophthalmologist. In 1917 his parents died of typhus. Timothy joined the White Army, where he served first as an attendant, and then in the Office of Military Intelligence. In 1919, from the … Read more
NS Leskov Neduka Two young girls, “poplar and birch”, Lizaveta Grigoryevna Bakhareva and Eugenia Petrovna Glovatskaya return from Moscow after graduation from the institute. Along the way, they visit the monastery for Aunt Bakhareva, Mother Superior of Agnia, where Lisa demonstrates new views on the role of women in the family and life. There, the … Read more
L. N. Tolstoy From the notes of Prince D. Nekhlyudov. Lucerne Events take place in July, in Lucerne, one of the most romantic cities in Switzerland. Travelers of all nations, and especially the British, in Lucerne – an abyss. Under their tastes the city is adjusted: old houses have broken, on a place of the … Read more
They were attributed to the heroic epic of the people of ancient Rus (Greek “epic” – story, narrative). They describe the mighty heroes of the time. The banners praise strong and intelligent people. Many are familiar with them: Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets, merchant Sadko, Svyatogor and others. These characters are not invented. They lived in … Read more
I. Diogenes and Polydeuces Gathered again to return to the land Polidevka Diogenes gives instructions. He must pass on to the Menicpus cunea that in the realm of the dead he will have more cause for mirth and ridicule, for here the tyrants, the rich and the satraps, are utterly pathetic and powerless. And he … Read more
E. Hemingway Have and have not had a novel, consisting of three novels, refers to the time of economic depression of the 1930s. Florida fisherman Harry Morgan from Key West makes a living by giving his motorboat to various rich people who came here to fish. They hire a boat together with the owner – … Read more
Dreaming of the will of the peasant and warrior Pugachev after long wanderings comes to Yaik and in conversation with the Cossack watchman learns that the men are waiting for a new king – peasant. Such a king is the murdered Peter III – he would have given the people a free will. This thought … Read more
Heliodor of Ethiopia A native of Phenicia from the city of Emessa (Hellenized and predominantly with the Greek population), Heliodor was ordained. It is known: the local synod, believing that “Ethiopica” corrupts the youth, demanded that Heliodorus burn his book publicly or refuse from the priesthood. And Heliodor preferred the latter. Presumably the events of … Read more
Maxim Gorky (at the birth of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, 16 (28) March 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire – June 18, 1936, Gorki, Moscow region, USSR) – Russian writer, prose writer, playwright. One of the most popular authors of the turn of the XIX and XX centuries, famous for depicting a romanticized declassed character (“tramp”), author … Read more