Nicholas Erfa was born in 1927 in the family of a brigadier general; after a brief service in the army in 1948, he entered Oxford, and a year later his parents were killed in a plane crash. He was left alone, with a small but independent annual income, bought a second-hand car – among the … Read more
The main characters: Mishka Dodonov – a boy of 12 years, his family – his mother and two brothers, all other relatives of the boy died of hunger, Seryozhka Karpukhin – his friend, the man Prokhor, Trofim, the train driver. Mishka heard from the peasants in the village that in Tashkent cheap bread, but it’s … Read more
In Summer, from the invention of a pin, five hundred and forty-first, when the month is clear, and you can not follow the numbers, Ilya Petrikeevich Dzynzirela writes to the investigator for special affairs Sidor Fomich the Elder about his life. He complains about the Small-Pole jailers who stole his crutches and left without support. … Read more
The work begins with a scene in the royal palace. The terrible Tsar Ivan Vasilievich is sitting at the table, behind him are the stalwarts, on the contrary – boyars and princes, on the sides – oprichniks. The king rewards for the glory of God, for his pleasure and merriment. He ordered to pour the … Read more
IS Turgenev wrote the story “Mumu” in 1852. For the first time the work was published in 1854 in the journal Sovremennik. The story was created within the literary direction of critical realism. “Mumu” is the first work in which Turgenev shows the vices of serfdom, denounces and condemns this social order. Main characters Gerasim … Read more
Chapter I. Ostap and Andriy, the sons of Taras Bulba, returned home after the end of the Kiev bursa. Their father was “from the number of indigenous, old colonels: he was all created for an abusive alarm and differed in the grossness of his morals.” He premeditated himself with the thought of how he would … Read more
The action takes place mainly in New York in the sixties of our century. A young talented black musician Rufus acquainted with the southern Leona. The woman has a hard time: the husband left her, taking the child, and the most difficult was that the relatives did not help her at this difficult moment. Rufus … Read more
VO Bogomolov In August 1944 In the summer of 1944 our troops liberated the whole of Belarus and a significant part of Lithuania. But in these territories there were many enemy agents, scattered groups of German soldiers, gangs, underground organizations. All these illegal forces acted suddenly and brutally: they already had a lot of murders … Read more
Door Late in the evening the boy is waiting for his beloved woman – then in the arch of the yard, then in the front house, where she should come to her friend. He is afraid to miss her. Mom does not know where he went: he said that he is following the compass to … Read more
Moscow. The early spring of 1775. The house of Count Alexei Grigorievich Orlov. Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov, due to the fact that he is in the retinue of Empress Catherine, who comes to Moscow, gets an opportunity to see her brother. He finds his brother drunk and all kinds of amusements. Alex flirting with women, … Read more