The life of the torero Juan Gallardo begins at the moment when the hero is at the zenith of fame. Not knowing defeats, the favorite of the public comes from his native Seville to Madrid for the opening of the spring season. This is not the first performance of Gallardo in the capital, and luck … Read more
There was a legend about a mysterious mountain valley in the middle of the Ecuadorian Andes, separated from the outside world after the eruption of the volcano. It was called the country of the blind. In the valley, that was all that a man could wish, and the settlers who had gone there lived freely. … Read more
Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich had twelve sons from different wives. The third in seniority was Svyatopolk. Svyatopolk’s mother, a nun, was cut off and taken to wife Yaropolk, Vladimir’s brother. Vladimir killed Yaropolk and captured his wife when she was pregnant. He adopted Svyatopolk, but did not like him. And Boris and Gleb were the sons … Read more
SA Klychkov Chertukhin balakir This was in Chertukhin for a long time, “when the coachman Peter Eremeyich was young.” There lived two brothers, Akim and Pyotr Kirilych Penkina. Akim married early, he had a lot of children, and he worked day and night. And Peter was lazy, he lived with his brother, did nothing, but … Read more
On the street there is a covered table, behind which feast several young men and women. One of the feasting, the young man, addressing the chairman of the feast, recalls their mutual friend, the merry Jackson, whose jokes and witticisms amused everyone, revitalized the feast and dispelled the darkness that now sends the ferocious plague … Read more
AI Kuprin Moloch The story takes place at a steel plant in the late XIX – early XX centuries. The factory whistle was roaring, announcing the beginning of the working day. The dull dawn of the rainy August day gave him a touch of sadness and threat. The buzzer caught the engineer Andrei Ilyich Bobrov … Read more
The plot of this tragedy of Voltaire was the events of the life of the Arab tribes of Arabia, connected with the spread of Islam and the activities of the religious reformer Mohammed. The author wrote: “I know that Mohammed did not commit the kind of treachery that the plot of my tragedy amounts to, … Read more
Moscow was quiet here, in a place called Blagusha. Firsov surveyed the surroundings and experienced a fine and desponding emptiness, familiar from experience, when here, just as before, for other books, a handful of human destinies ripened in him. And then Firsov saw how waking up that Nikolka Zavarikhin had come to Moscow from the … Read more
Alexander Dumas Twenty years later The middle of the XVII century. Spurred on by the Fronde, the people of Paris murmurs: deputies, merchants, legal department outraged policy of Cardinal Mazarin, sucking all the juice out of the taxpayers. The Queen, who was going to Mass in the Cathedral of the Notre Dame, was haunted by … Read more
I. G. Ehrenburg Thaw In the club of a large industrial city – sold-out. The hall is packed full, people are standing in the aisles. The event is uncommon: a novel by a young local writer has been published. Participants in the readership conference praise the debutant: workdays are reflected accurately and brightly. The heroes … Read more