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 and theater of the late nineteenth century, which received the name of verism. In modern subjects and everyday life of ordinary … Read more
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 Nikolka is 13 years old, Nikolka knows a lot of bad words and often tells Petka obscene stories. The windows of … Read more
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 elderly man with a huge fortune,” as mentioned in the remark) and Vozhevatov (“a very young man, one of the representatives … Read more
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 and children. Vitin dog Sharik howls, calling, according to the grandmother, trouble. And trouble comes. The hatch of Auntoni’s aunt is … Read more
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 pianist. From 1893 to 1896 Zamyatin attended the Lebedyan Gymnasium, and then studied at the Voronezh High School, which in 1902 … Read more
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… The old man Mikion has no native children. His brother Demei has two sons. One of them, Aeschines, adopted Mikion. He … Read more
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 courage, was committed. In his youth, he married the daughter of a sergeant of his regiment, Nancy. After living for thirty … Read more
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 a pain in his chest, could not fall asleep. Lyonka was a small, frail boy of about ten, in his rags, … Read more
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 bank of the Dniester. A bridgehead in the one and a half square kilometer above the river, held by the entrenched … Read more
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 marvel at how long it took Godunov to persuade him to take power, and only the threat of excommunication from his … Read more