The events of the novel begin with the wires to Muscovy Anton Ehrenstein, a baron by birth, invited as a doctor to the Grand Duke John III. But how did the nobleman’s son become a doctor in the fifteenth century when the “Inquisition of these world pariahs roasted thousands?” Long before this day, in Rome, … Read more
Bourgeois English interior. English Evening. The English couple are Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The English clock beats seventeen English punches. Mrs. Smith says that it’s already nine o’clock. She lists everything they ate for dinner, and builds gastronomic plans for the future. She is going to buy Bulgarian yogurt, because it works well on the … Read more
Anna Zegers The seventh cross The German anti-fascists – dead and alive – are dedicated to this book. The action takes place in Germany in several villages around the Vestgofen Concentration Camp. Chapter One The narrative is lead by one of the prisoners, but it is not clear who, because he always says “we”. Near … Read more
AG Helenshleger Yarl Hakon Norway end of X century. Jarl Hakon, who has conquered his country, dreams of royalty: he wants to turn from a jarl-a free and eminent military leader-into a king whose power is sanctified by a dynastic tradition and a people’s habit, that is, indisputable. But on the way to the yarl … Read more
Bourgeois English interior. English Evening. The English couple are Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The English clock beats seventeen English punches. Mrs. Smith says that it’s already nine o’clock. She lists everything they ate for dinner, and builds gastronomic plans for the future. She is going to buy Bulgarian yogurt, because it works well on the … Read more
Novgorod posadnik Prenest and Vigor in anticipation of Vadim discuss the reason for his unwillingness to publicly announce his arrival in Novgorod. Appears Vadim surrounded by commanders. He addresses his companions with a speech full of bitterness. Once the free city is now under the rule of the tyrant Rurik. “O Novgorod, what have you … Read more
One day a villan went by – a peasant, speaking in Russian, – with his wife on Sunday for mass. The priest preaches reading, they say, the Lord will reward a hundredfold for every gift from a pure heart. A peasant with a woman is coming home, and he says that, say, Burenka does not … Read more
B. Constant Adolph Beginning of the last century. A certain traveler, making a trip to Italy, gets acquainted with a sad young man in one of the provincial towns. When a young man becomes ill, the traveler takes care of him, and the one who has recovered grants him his manuscript in gratitude. Confident that … Read more
A fifty-year-old professor of history and literature, Moses Herzog, wrote letters, wrote decisively to everyone in the world-people who are personally acquainted and unfamiliar, living and dead, relatives of former and existing, thinkers and presidents, publishers and fellow workers, church leaders, and so on, no one specifically, but sometimes, either to himself or to the … Read more
The action takes place at the beginning of the last century in Switzerland. One fine day in the village of Glattfelden, which is located somewhere in the north of Switzerland, there is a handsome and beautiful stranger dressed in a green frock coat. This is Master Leia. Once upon a time he left his native … Read more