Summary of Giacomo Puccini

JACOMO PUCCIÑI 1858-1924 Puccini is the largest, after Verdi, Italian composer, who developed realistic principles of national opera art. In terms of its ideological and artistic attitudes, Puccini adjoined the movement in Italian literature

“Petya at the cottage” Andreev in brief summary

A ten-year-old boy Petka was sent to teach to the barber Osip Abramovich. In a cheap hairdresser he brings water, the master and apprentices constantly shout at him and swear at him. His friend

Summary “The Dowry” Ostrovsky

The action takes place in a large fictional city on the Volga – Bryakhimov. An open area near the coffee shop on the Volga boulevard. Knurov (“of the big dealers of recent times, an

Summary “A Boy in a White Shirt” Astafyev

1933 year. It’s a dry summer. All the population of the Far Eastern village moves to the zaimki to clean the rye and wheat that has survived. In the village there are old people

Summary Zamyatin E. And

Evgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884-1937) is a Russian writer. Yevgeny Zamyatin was born on January 20 (February 1) in 1884 in the city of Lebedyan, Tambov province. Father – an Orthodox priest, mother – a

Summary “The Brothers of Terence”

Eternal theme: late in the evening the father in anxiety awaits the house of a detained son somewhere and mutters to himself that there is no greater unrest than the excitement of the parents…

Summary of “Hunchback” Doyle

In the small town of Oldershot, where the military unit is quartered, the murder of Colonel James Barclay, a valiant veteran, who began serving as an ordinary soldier and was promoted to officers for

Summary “Grandfather Arkhip and Lyonka” Gorky

While waiting for the ferry, the grandfather Arkhip and Lyonka lay in the shade from the shore cliff and looked at the waves of the Kuban River. Lyonka dozed off, and his grandfather, feeling

Summary The earth’s span

G. Ya. Baklanov The Land of the Last Last Second World War. Its outcome is already predetermined. Desperate resistance is exerted by fascists to Soviet troops on a strategically important direction – the right

Summary Tsar Boris AK Tolstoy

AK Tolstoy Tsar Boris On the day of Borisov, the weddings of the boyar throne are calculated by the fruits of his rule: both the suppressed morrow, the completed wars, and the harvests. They
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