Two in December He waited for her at the station for a long time. It was a frosty sunny day, and he liked the abundance of skiers, the creak of fresh snow and the coming two days: first – an electric train, and then – twenty kilometers through the forests and fields on skis to … Read more
“Life is a story told by a cretin, full of noise and fury, but devoid of meaning.” To retell this story differently from what it was originally told means to try to tell a very different story, except that the people in it will have the same names, they will be bound by the same … Read more
Tirso Molina The pious Marta Doña Marta and donja Lucia, the daughter of Don Gómez, mourn the brother killed by Don Felipe. But both girls are in secret from each other in love with Don Felipe and in fact are more worried about his fate than grieve about his brother. Marta guesses about Lucia’s love … Read more
H. Murakami Dance, dance, dance Several years passed. The hero works for glossy magazines. His life is empty. There are no friends, women come and go. He remembers his Friend and decides to find her. For this, the hero again goes to the hotel “Dolphin”. But everything changed there, as if by magic. In place … Read more
In his room sits composer Salieri. He complains about the injustice of fate. Remembering his childhood, he says that he was born with love for high art, that, as a child, he cried involuntarily and sweet tears at the sounds of the church organ. Early rejecting children’s games and fun, he selflessly devoted himself to … Read more
Three years have passed since the death of Sherlock Holmes. In London, under very mysterious circumstances, the young Count Ronald Adair was killed. Ronald was a fan of the card game and was in several clubs. A month and a half before his death, Ronald paired with Colonel Moran won a large sum. On that … Read more
Yu. P. Kazakov Adam and Eve Artist Ageev lived in a hotel in the northern city, came here to write fishermen. It was autumn. Above the city, over low brown clouds, drifting clouds from the west over the gray-brown storm-drenched forests, it started to drizzle ten times a day, and the lake rose above the … Read more
Five people of rich and young people arrived one night to have a good time at the St. Petersburg balik. Champagne was drunk a lot, the girls were beautiful, dancing and noise did not stop; but it was somehow boring, awkward, everyone seemed to think that it was all unnecessary. One of the five young … Read more
Over the novel “The Hero of Our Time” M. Yu. Lermontov worked in 1838-1840. His idea was born at the time of the writer’s reference to the Caucasus in 1838. The first parts of the novel were published within one year in the journal Otechestvennye zapiski. They aroused interest from the readers. Lermontov, seeing the … Read more
Owner The action takes place in London in 1886-1887. In the house of the old Jolyon family celebration, a reception in honor of the engagement of Miss June Forsythe with Mr. Philip Bosini. There are many guests, the family is very numerous. Within the Forsyte clan, as in society, the law of competition reigns, the … Read more
The action takes place in the suburban dacha village in the unusually hot, suffocating summer of 1972. Pensioner Pavel Evgrafovich Letunov, a man of advanced age, receives a letter from his old acquaintance Asi Igumnova, who was in love with the school from the school for a long time. Together they fought on the Southern … Read more
Chapter 1 At the gates of the hotel in the provincial city of NN, a carriage comes in. It sits “a gentleman, not handsome, but also not of a bad appearance, neither too fat nor too thin, you can not say that he is old, yet not so much that he is too young” – … Read more
In the foreword the author emphasizes that the reason for writing this work was not the death of MV Frunze, as many think, but simply the desire to reflect. Readers do not need to search in the stories of genuine facts and living persons. Early in the morning, in the saloon car of the emergency … Read more
A lot has been written about the Great Patriotic War. A special attention deserves the story “The Mother of Man” by V. Zakrutkin. Her heroine is a simple Russian woman who has experienced inhuman tortures. But for the sake of saving the new life that was beating inside her, she was able to stand, becoming … Read more
Hippolytus, the son of the Athenian Tsar Theseus, goes in search of his father, who has been traveling somewhere for six months. Hippolytus is the son of the Amazon. The new wife of Theseus Fedra disliked him, as everyone thinks, and he wants to leave Athens. Phaedra is also sick with an incomprehensible disease and … Read more
T. Junichiro History of Syunkin Who Moduya, known as Syunkin, was born in Osaka in the family of an apothecary in 1828. She was the most beautiful and most gifted of all the children of an apothecary, moreover, she had an even, cheerful disposition. But at eight, the girl suffered a misfortune: she was blind. … Read more
A. N. Ostrovsky The Snow Maiden The action takes place in the land of the Berendeys in mythical times. The end of winter comes – the leshy hides in a hollow. On the Red Hill near Berendeyev, the village, the capital of Tsar Berendey, spring comes, and birds return with it: cranes, swans – the … Read more
June 25, 1925 The narrator sails on an English ship to Hong Kong. On the map, this island resembles a cork that sits in the delta of the Pearl River, along which the gray patch of the Canton has spread. China is swept by the revolution: grandiose demonstrations are being prepared in Beijing and Shanghai, … Read more
I. Ivan Barefoot Ivan Petrov, nicknamed “Barefoot,” comes to the yard of the house where I live. He stands by the logs, but does not chop them for firewood. I know that he came only to ask for money to get drunk. Such as he is called “the rural proletariat.” An absurd discrepancy in peasant … Read more
Prince Vladimir the sun is feasting in the Gridnitsa with his sons and a crowd of friends, celebrating the wedding of the youngest daughter of Lyudmila with Prince Ruslan. In honor of the newlyweds singing guslyar Bayan. Only three guests are not happy with Ruslan and Lyudmila, three knights do not listen to the prophetic … Read more
On December 24, 1949, at five o’clock in the evening, state counselor of the second rank, Innokentiy Volodin, almost ran away from the stairs of the Foreign Ministry, jumped out into the street, took a taxi, raced through central Moscow streets, went out on the Arbat Street, went to the telephone booth at the Khudozhestvenny … Read more
The author visited a neighbor living fifteen versts from his estate. This is Arkady Pavlovich Penochkin, an officer in retirement, a reasonable and positive person, a master of cards, an enviable fiancé in the province. The officer, who is almost incessantly peppering the speech with French words, becomes unpleasant to the author immediately, as soon … Read more
There are many invisible characters in the play and three real ones – the Old Man, the Old Woman and the Orator. At the front of the stage there are two empty chairs, three doors and a window on the right, and three doors and a window on the left, near which there is a … Read more
In the genre-thematic plan – this lyrical and philosophical meditation, “road diary”, with a weakened plot. The characters of the poem are an immense Soviet country, its people, a swift turn of their deeds and accomplishments. The text of the poem contains a joking recognition of the author – a passenger of the train “Moscow-Vladivostok”. … Read more
May evening. Zoya Denisovna Pelts, a thirty-five-year-old widow, dressed in front of a mirror. To her on business comes the chairman of the house committee of Hallelujah. He warns Zoya that she was decided to tighten up – she has six rooms. After long conversations Zoya shows Allilue permission to open a sewing workshop and … Read more
RI Fraerman Wild Dog Dingo, or The Story of the First Love Friends from childhood and classmates Tanya Sabaneyeva and Filka relaxed at a children’s camp in Siberia and now they return home. The girl is met at home by an old dog Tiger and an old nurse (mother at work, and her father does … Read more
I A year has passed since Ilya Ilyich’s illness. A colleague of his brother Pshenitsyna went to the village, but did not do anything positively. After the illness, Ilya Ilyich was at first gloomy, then fell into indifference, but gradually “entered his normal normal life.” All care for Oblomov’s food was undertaken by Agafya Matveyevna. … Read more
About forty years ago, in St. Petersburg on Vasilevsky Island, there lived a male housekeeper. Among the thirty or forty children who studied in that boarding house, there was one boy named Alesha, who then was no more than 9 or 10 years old. His parents, who lived far from St. Petersburg, two years before, … Read more
DMITRY DMITRIEVICH SHOSTAKOVICH The genus. in 1906 Shostakovich is one of the greatest contemporary composers, an outstanding music and public figure, and a teacher. In the work of Shostakovich are represented all genres of musical art – opera and ballet, symphony and concerto, instrumental ensemble and romance, song and oratorio, operetta and music for cinema … Read more
Part one Compared to the frightened silence that prevailed in Petersburg in the winter of 1739, an unusual revival was observed in the courtyard of the chief governor of Volyn. Volynsky arranged a celebration for the Empress Anna Ioannovna, for this purpose, couples in national costumes from all parts of Russia gathered in his yard. … Read more
The story begins with a description of a terrible fight between the Orlovs in their apartment, which is located in the basement of the old and dirty house of the merchant Petunnikov. Behind the fight watches the whole yard led by Senka Chizhik – pupil of the painter – a mischievous boy of 12 years … Read more
A great misfortune came. The monstrous multi-headed Serpent began to raid Russia, stealing innocent civilians and glorious warriors who could not resist him. Dobrynya Nikitich decided to fight the Serpent. He did not listen to his mother, who warned him not to go far in a clear field, to the Sorochinsky mountain, where small snakes … Read more
There were five peas in the pod; they themselves were green, the pod too green, well, they thought that the whole world was green; it should have been so! The pod grew, peas grew; they adjusted to the room and sat in a row. The sun lit and warmed the pod, the rain watered it, … Read more
Nezhdanoff gets a home teacher from the Sipyagins at a time when he is in great need of money, even more in changing the situation. Now he can rest and gather strength, most importantly – he “fell out of the care of the Petersburg friends.” In Petersburg he lived in a dark little room with … Read more
Dostoevsky acquaints readers with the Karamazov family. Its head Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is a small landowner. The author characterizes him as a man of “stupid”, “crappy and depraved”, but cunning. Fyodor Pavlovich was twice married. The first wife belonged to the rich and influential Miusovs. Immediately after the wedding Karamazov took away her dowry and … Read more
February 20, 1598. For a month already, Boris Godunov has shut himself up with his sister in a monastery, leaving “all worldly” and refusing to accept the Moscow throne. The people explain Godunov’s refusal to marry the kingdom in the right spirit for Boris: “He is afraid of the radiance of the throne.” Godunov’s game … Read more
IVAN IVANOVICH DZERZHINSKY The genus. in 1909 The opera genre is the main sphere of Dzerzhinsky’s creative interests. The heroics of the revolutionary and people’s liberation struggle, the pathos of labor, the images of contemporaries-these are the themes of his work. The wide use of revolutionary and Soviet songs, the simplicity and accessibility of the … Read more
Alexey Arseniev was born in the 70’s. XIX century. in the middle zone of Russia, in his father’s farmstead, on Kamenka farmstead. Childhood years passed in the silence of the discreet Russian nature. Endless fields with aromas of grasses and flowers in summer, vast snowy expanses in winter gave rise to a heightened sense of … Read more
LEOSH YANACHEK 1854-1928 Janacek is an outstanding Czech composer, conductor, teacher, music critic and music and public figure. His art is marked by progressive aspiration, loyalty to humanistic ideals, folk traditions. In his works, closely related to the advanced Czech literature, he glorifies the common man, his spiritual strength, honesty and diligence, he flouts social … Read more
Vseslavich was marked by significant phenomena in nature: “the moon shone brightly in the sky a month the cheese of the blue earth shook.” But this is not all – at the time of the appearance of the baby the fish went to the depths of the sea, the birds took off for the clouds, … Read more
The appearance of Julio Jurenito to the peoples of Europe and to his first and most devoted disciple Ehrenburg takes place on March 26, 1913 in the cafe Rotunda on the Paris Boulevard Montparnasse, at the very hour when the author is dejected over a cup of long-drunk coffee, vainly waiting for someone who free … Read more
All mysterious stories begin with occasional conversation, accidentally abandoned words, fleeting encounters. Where is to be such a meeting, if not at the ball? Princess Mimi had long disliked Baroness Dauertal. The princess was already thirty. She still could not get married, but continued to attend balls. She perfectly learned to cursive, suspicion, intrigue and, … Read more
“Almost all this happened in fact.” This phrase begins a novel, which, as it appears from the author’s warning, “is partly written in a slightly telegraph-schizophrenic style, as they write on the planet Tralfamador, from where the flying saucers appear.” The protagonist of the book, Billy Pilgrim, according to the narrator’s expression, “disconnected from time”, … Read more
I Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a man of about thirty-two or three, of medium height, of pleasant appearance, with dark gray eyes, lay in bed in the morning on the Gorokhovaya Street. His mind was walking through thought, but at the same time there was no concentration, a certain idea on his face. His movements are … Read more
“Platero and I” – a cycle of lyrical sketches of the poet Juan Ramon Jimenez. The hero of the cycle is the gray donkey Platero, who throughout the year is almost the only friend, companion and companion of the author. In the first lines a portrait of this charming animal is given: “The plater is … Read more
Part 1 Scary 1918 Died mother Alexei, Elena and Nikolka. Alexey Vasilievich Turbin is a young doctor, 28 years old. His sister Elena is married to Captain Thalberg, and Nikolka is seventeen and a half years old. The elder Turbin talks about life with the priest Alexander, who reads to him the book of Revelations, … Read more
Events of the “Sign of Four” are unfolding in London in 1888. During the forced idleness associated with the lack of orders, the famous detective-consultant Sherlock Holmes, living on Baker Street in house 221-6, together with his friend Dr. Watson, his deductive method, which he uses to solve crimes. Sherlock Holmes is convinced that by … Read more
In New Orleans arrives Irish nobleman Florence Kernei. The young man intends to go further to Mexico to study this country, but his ignorance of the Spanish language stops him. Florence acquainted with the Mexican: he was expelled from the country by the tyrant who seized power and lost all his fortune. Working with him … Read more
A. N. Ostrovsky Guilty without guilt The action takes place in the second half of the XIX century, in the provincial city, in a poor apartment on the outskirts. Lyubov Ivanovna Otradina, “a girl of noble birth,” who lives by her own labor, sews and talks with the maid. From the conversation it turns out … Read more
Russia. Late XIX – early XX century. The Brothers of Color, Tikhon and Kuzma, were born in a small village of Durnovka. In their youth they were engaged in small trade, then they quarreled, and their ways parted. Kuzma went to work for hire. Tikhon took off his inn, opened a tavern and shop, began … Read more