It was the third year of the war. There were no adult healthy men in the village, and therefore the brigadier sent my older brother Sadyk’s wife, Jamila, to a purely masculine job – to transport grain to the station. And so that the elders did not worry about the bride, he sent me, a … Read more
The novel is stylized as an old Germanic story. The beginning of the narrative is about 1521. Franz Sternbald, an artist, a young student of Albrecht Dürer, a renowned German painter, leaves Nuremberg and travels on a long journey to reach Italy and learn from Italian artists. Franz accompanies his friend Sebastian, like himself, a … Read more
One of the visiting princes fell in love with the daughter of the king – Isolde. The father willingly gave his consent to the marriage of his daughter. The kingdom began to prepare for the wedding of the princess. Isolde sincerely loved her native land, and wanted her wedding attire to be as white as … Read more
JR Kipling Lispeth This spoiled name Elizabeth (in the dialect of the Himalayan mountain people it sounded like Lispet). She is the daughter of Himalayan mountaineer Sonah and his wife Jade, her parents have died. The English educate her as an Englishwoman. Becoming an adult, she became charming: the Greek face, the skin light, reminded … Read more
About the work The story of “Lefty” Leskov was released in 1881. The work is dedicated to the genius Tula gunsmith, who was able to surpass the skill of English masters. But his talent was not appreciated at home, in the end, all forgotten, he died in the hospital. The title of the story “Lefty” … Read more
The heroes of this tragedy are two evil czars from the city of Argos, Atreus and Fiest. The son of this Atreus was the famous leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War Agamemnon – the one killed by his wife Clytemnestra, and her son, Orestes, killed her for this (and Aeschylus wrote about this … Read more
A. Strindberg Eric XIV King Eric is a strange and eccentric figure, he is extremely suspicious and inclined to unexpected decisions. Outraged by the courtyard, he settled in his Stockholm palace a mistress – a soldier’s daughter Karin, who sincerely loves and who already has two children. But at the same time, as befits a … Read more
Poem Nekrasov “To Whom in Russia to Live Well” tells about the journey of seven peasants in Russia in search of a happy man. The work was written in the late 60’s and mid-70’s. XIX century, after the reforms of Alexander II and the abolition of serfdom. It describes the post-reform society, in which not … Read more
Adam Mickiewicz Conrad Wallenrod In the prosaic preface to the poem, the author notes that he describes those ancient times when the pagan Lithuanians fought with their main enemy, the Teutonic Order, which subdued Prussia. 1391 Knights come to Marienburg to elect the head of the order. More often than not, the name of Wallenrode, … Read more
A childless woman, on the advice of a sorceress, raised a girl out of a grain of a tulip an inch tall – Thumbelina. Cradle for her was a nut shell, a boat – a petal of a tulip in a dish with water and flowers, where the girl sailed and sang. One night she … Read more