A retired soldier was not dubbed “Cuckoo” for nothing – he has neither a home nor any relatives. After many years of endless walks with an outstretched hand, finally, he was put into this hand, not a stone, but bread: he got the place of a forest watchman. The master provided him with food and … Read more
To still unknown detective Sherlock Holmes, his colleague in college Reginald Maysgrave, a scion of one of the most ancient families of the kingdom, turns. Reginald lives in an ancient castle, which is built on an extremely stupid, and needs to be looked after. In addition, he owns a reserve for hunting and therefore holds … Read more
GEORGE BIZE 1838-1875 Bizet is a great realist artist. His cheerful, colorful and temperamental music is distinguished by melodic richness and dramatic expressiveness. The national-democratic aspirations of the French composers of the 19th century were half a mile in Bizet’s work, their most complete and vivid embodiment. Georges Bizet was born in Paris on October … Read more
B. L. Vasiliev A dawn here quiet… May 1942 Countryside in Russia. There is a war with fascist Germany. 171-m railroad departure commanded by the sergeant-major Fedot Evgrafich Vaska. He is thirty-two years old. Education he has only four classes. Vaska was married, but his wife fled with the regimental veterinarian, and his son soon … Read more
FR de Chateaubriand Rene, or Consequences of Passion René, a young man of noble family, settles in a French colony in the wilds of Louisiana, among the Indian tribe of nazes. His past is shrouded in mystery. Rene’s penchant for melancholy makes him avoid the people’s society. The only exception is his foster father, the … Read more
London, 1887. In the house of Jolyon a lot of guests gathered about the celebration of the engagement of June Forsythe with Bossini Philippe. Within the family relationship between the six brothers Jolyon, Swithin, Nicholas, Roger, Timothy, the law of competition is firmly laid. Their father was proud, of farmers, working as a mason, contractor … Read more
The narrator talks about what many people understand by the word “artists”, and then reports on the master who was in Russia. His little brother was nursed by old Lyubov Onisimovna, an actress of the former Orlovsky Theater Count Kamensky. She led them to walk in the cemetery to a simple grave with an old … Read more
J. de La Fontaine Fertilizer and Shoemaker The rich Fertilizer lives in lush mansions, eats sweetly, drinks deliciously. His treasures are incalculable, he gives banquets and feasts every day. In a word, he should live and rejoice, but the trouble is – the farmer does not manage to get enough sleep. At night he could … Read more
“Foma Pukhov is not gifted with sensitivity: he cut his boiled sausage on the coffin of his wife, starving because of the absence of the hostess.” After the burial of his wife, Pukhov goes to bed, having taken a nap. Someone is knocking at him loudly. The watchman of the office of the head of … Read more
Planet Earth, Pleistocene, savannah equatorial Africa. A small tribe of Pithecanthropus is on the verge of extinction. Nature did not endow them with powerful fangs, no sharp claws, no fast legs, but in their eyes glimpses of consciousness flicker. Probably, it is these qualities that attracted the attention of some highly developed extraterrestrial civilization, which … Read more