Ms Sarti, Galileo’s housekeeper, Andrea’s mother. Ludovico Marsili, a rich young man. Priuli, curator of the university. Sagredo, friend of Galileo. Virginia, the daughter of Galileo. Cosimo de ‘Medici, the Grand Duke of Florence. Cardinals, inquisitors, scientists, soldiers, monks and others. Galileo Galilei, a mathematics teacher in the city of Padua, wants to prove that … Read more
The action takes place from 19 to 26 March 1815 in France, during the last before Easter of the week, in the Catholic calendar called passionate. The novel is based on historical events connected with the return of Napoleon Bonaparte to Paris, who fled from the island of Elba, where he was in exile. The … Read more
Katya is Mitya’s beloved. She studies at a private theater school, goes to the studio of the Art Theater, lives with her mother, “always smoking, always a bruised lady with crimson hair,” who has long since left her husband. Unlike Mitya, Katya is not completely engrossed in love, it’s no accident that Rilke noticed that … Read more
The story begins with a description of the boundless steppe and endless sea. The narrator converses at night with the old gypsy Makar Chudra, who guards the horses not far from his camp. Makar tells one story so that his interlocutor remained his whole life “free bird.” The young gypsy Loiko Zobar knew Hungary, the … Read more
The narrative is conducted on behalf of the policeman Mike Hooligan. The book is divided into three parts. Suicide; Picture. In each part there are separate chapters. The whole book is Mike’s story about a case that turned out to be “worse for now”. The book begins with how Mike describes himself and work. M. … Read more
In the first volume of the novel the author acquaints the reader with the actors and gives them characteristics that are then supplemented, but the first impression of each character is formed at the very beginning of the narrative. July of 1805. In the St. Petersburg salon, the maid of honor Anna Pavlovna Scherer gathers … Read more
Autobiographical and scientific story “Before sunrise” – a confessional story about how the author tried to defeat his melancholy and the fear of life. He considered this fear to be his mental illness, and not at all a feature of talent, and tried to overcome himself, to inspire himself with a childlike, cheerful world view. … Read more
Yu. V. Trifonov Another Life The action takes place in Moscow. Several months have passed since Sergei Afanasievich Troitsky died. His wife, Olga, a biologist, still can not recover from the loss of her husband, who died at the age of forty-two from a heart attack. She still lives in the same apartment with his … Read more
Early in the morning, Maid Lisa knocks in the bedroom to the young lady. Sophia does not immediately respond: she talked with her lover, the secretary of Father Molchalin, who lived in the same house all night. Silently appeared father Sophia, Pavel Afanasevich Famusov, flirts with Lisa, who barely manages to fight back from the … Read more
Deciding to make a trip to France and Italy, an Englishman with Shakespeare’s name Yorick landed in Calais. He reflects on travel and travelers, dividing them into different categories. He attributes himself to the category of “sensitive travelers”. A monk comes to Yorik with a request to donate to a poor monastery, which pushes the … Read more