Once upon a time there was a merchant, he had three daughters. One day my father gathered in the city, asked what gifts to bring to the daughters. The eldest asked to buy a cloth on the dress. And the middle asked for a cloth on her dress. The younger asked to bring the feather … Read more
“Song of the Stormy Petrel” was written in Nizhny Novgorod after the return of M. Gorky on March 12, 1901 from a trip to St. Petersburg and Moscow. It was published in 1901 in the journal “Life” as an independent work after being banned by the censorship of the whole story. At that time, the … Read more
About the work The story “Scarlet Sails” was first published in 1923. The author sought to show in his work the possibility of winning a dream over everyday life. The story of Alexander Green “Scarlet Sails” tells about the girl Assol, about her fidelity to the dream and desire for it. The main conflict of … Read more
The story of Byron’s poem was based on the story of the Swiss republican, writer and philosopher François Bonnivar. For his statements against the regime of the Duke Charles III of Savoy, he was imprisoned in the Chillon Castle and stayed there for six years, from 1530 to 1536. Four years he spent in a … Read more
STONE GUEST Opera in three acts The text of Alexander Pushkin Characters: Don Juan Leporello Donna Anna Don Carlos Laura Monk 1st guest 2nd guest Statue of the Commander Tenor Bass Soprano Baritone Mezzo soprano Bass Tenor Bass Bass The action takes place in Spain. HISTORY OF CREATION The idea to write an opera for … Read more
A wonderful fairy story was written by Lazar Lagin. “Old Man Khottabych” tells how a powerful sorcerer from Arab mythology enters the Soviet state and gets acquainted with the realities of the 1930s. About what came of it, you can learn from this article. Acquaintance with genie The book begins with the fact that a … Read more
At the beginning of the work the narrator talks about the attitude of people towards the station wardens. He told me that someone constantly swears with them, sometimes they can hit them. Generally, station supervisors are officials of the fourteenth grade. And they lead with them, mostly class officials are higher than the fourteenth. However, … Read more
JB Shaw Pygmalion The play takes place in London. In the summer evening, the rain pours like a bucket. Passersby run to the Covent Garden Market and to the portico of the cathedral of St. Pavel, where several people have already taken refuge, including an elderly lady with a daughter, they are in the evening … Read more
L. Panteleev Republic of Shkid Shkid or Shkid – so “detective” pupils have reduced the name of their educational institution – School of Social and Labor Education named after Dostoevsky. Shkida originated in 1920 in Petrograd. Its founders were Viktor Nikolayevich Sorokin-Viknikorsor and his wife Ella Andreevna Lumberg, a teacher of the German language, later … Read more
Even less than a month, it took Lina Grove to get on foot and when, but rarely, on a passing wagon ride from a provincial village at a sawmill in Alabama to the city of Jefferson, Mississippi, where, as she somehow thought, Lucas Birch, from which she suffered and whom, as the time began to … Read more