F. M. Dostoevsky Player Alexey Ivanovich, a 25-year-old home teacher, along with the family of the elderly general Zagoryansky – stepdaughter Polina and two young children – lives in a luxury hotel in the German resort of Roulettenburg. Even in Russia, the general laid his estate to a certain Marquise De Grieux and for six … Read more
The story is written in the form of notes of the heroine addressed to the Marquise de Croamar, whom she asks for help and for this purpose tells him the story of her misfortunes. The heroine’s name is Maria-Suzanne Simonen. Her father is a lawyer, he has a great fortune. She is not liked in … Read more
VV Erofeev Moscow-Petushki Venichka Erofeev travels from Moscow to the regional center near Moscow called Petushki. There lives a sweetheart hero, delightful and unique, to which he travels on Fridays, buying a bag of sweets “Cornflower” as a gift. Venichka Erofeev has already begun his wanderings. The day before, he had taken a glass of … Read more
JR R. Fowles A French lieutenant On a windy March day in 1867 along the mole of the ancient town of Lyme Regis in the southeast of England a young couple is walking. The lady is dressed in the latest London fashion in a narrow red dress without crinoline, which in this provincial backwater will … Read more
W. Langland Vision of Peter Pahar The prologue tells how the author “put on rough clothes, as if he were a shepherd”, and went roaming the “wide world to listen to his miracles.” Tired, he lay down on the Malvern hills, by the stream, and soon fell asleep. And he had a wonderful dream. He … Read more
In the battle for the Old Ilmen farm, only 117 men and commanders survived from the whole regiment. Now these people, exhausted by three tank attacks and an endless retreat, wandered around the hot, waterless steppe. The regiment was lucky in only one thing: the regimental banner survived. Finally, they reached the hamlet, “lost in … Read more
The action takes place in the Urals in 1919. The protagonist of the poem is the bandit Nomah, a romantic character, an anarchist rebel who hates “all those who grow fat on Marx.” He went once behind the revolution, hoping that it would bring liberation to the whole human race, and this anarchistic, peasant dream … Read more
The play takes place on a secluded island, where all the fictional characters are transferred from different countries. A ship in the sea. Storm. Thunder and lightning. The crew of the ship is trying to save him, but the notable passengers – Neapolitan King Alonzo, his brother Sebastian and son Ferdinand, Duke of Milan Antonio … Read more
The Greek Minotta sails by boat to the native island of Ipsar. He can see blossoming orange trees, overshadowing the ruins of the colonnades, the peaks of the mountains, drowning in the azure sky. Houses on the island are, as it were, embedded in coastal rocks, and light contours of minarets are visible. In the … Read more
L. G. Zorin The Tsar’s Hunt 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 … Read more