Edmond Rostan Cyrano de Bergerac In the theater – the premiere, in the main role – a mediocre actor Monfleri. But the poet and the Brater, the Gascon of Cyrano de Bergerac, forbade this
In anticipation of the return of an obese peasant Ananiya Yakovleva, a man from the soul of a proud, peculiar, hardworking and economic man, in the festively cleaned hut, with an earnest look from
JR Kipling And dug a hole Mr. Hawkins Mumrath, an official of Her Majesty’s Bengali civil service, went to bed to die of typhoid fever. The newspapers have already published obituaries concerning his forthcoming
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The estate of the landlord Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya. Spring, cherry trees bloom. But a beautiful garden should soon be sold for debts. For the past five years, Ranevskaya and her seventeen-year-old daughter Ana have
FK Sologub. The Legend. Part One. Drops of blood The eyes of the fiery serpent are falling on the river Skoroden and the naked virgins bathing there. They are the sisters Elisaveta and Elena,
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Here are the evidences of the past years about when the first mention is made of what the name “Russian land” comes from and who starts to reign in Kiev before – we will
The Tsar’s Bride Opera in four acts Libretto by I. Tyumenev Characters: Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin, Novgorod merchant Martha, his daughter Bass Soprano Grigory Gryaznoi Malyuta Skuratov } Oprichniks Baritone Bass Boyarin Ivan Sergeevich Lykov