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
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
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
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
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
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…
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
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
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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