Maksimov with Stashevsky, Alexei and Winkler was driven into this port by a cruel autumn storm. Young people lived in a crappy hotel, stuffed with sailors and prostitutes, spending time in cheap taverns. Stashevsky thundered Russian literature, argued with Alexei about the fate of Russia. We remembered the recently deceased Oscar. The old man taught … Read more
Student Dou Tianzhang, who devoted himself to the teachings since childhood, overcame many books, nevertheless did not achieve any rank or fame. Already four years, as his wife has died and at it the juvenile daughter has remained on hands. And then poverty came. I had to borrow from the widow’s widow aunt Tsai twenty … Read more
My first goose Correspondent of the newspaper “Red Cavalryman” Liutov (narrator and lyrical hero) is in the ranks of the First Cavalry Army headed by S. Budyonny. The First Horse, fighting with the Poles, makes a trek through Western Ukraine and Galicia. Among the gunmen, Liutov is a stranger. Ochkarik, an intellectual, a Jew, he … Read more
V. Alfieri Saul David comes at night to the camp of the Israelites in Gilboa. He is forced to hide from King Saul, to which the filial feelings feed. Earlier, Saul loved him, he himself chose David as his wife for his beloved daughter, Malkola. “But the ransom of the Sinister – a hundred enemy … Read more
RIGOLETTO Opera in three acts (four scenes) 1 Libretto by F. Piave Characters: Duke of Mantua Rigoletto, the court jester Gilda, his daughter Sparafucile, the bandit Maddalena, his sister Giovanna, the maid of Gilda Count Monterone Tenor Baritone Soprano Bass Mezzo soprano Mezzo soprano Bass Baritone Tenor Bass Mezzo soprano Soprano Baritone Marullo Borsa } … Read more
In the district Ural town of Uzel, the event: after a long absence, the young millionaire Sergey Aleksandrovich Privalov returns. His arrival makes a noticeable variety and in the life of the local matchmaker – Hionia Alekseevna Zaplatina, “ladies of uncertain years with a faded face.” She sees Privalov as a profitable bridegroom and at … Read more
The story “Tomorrow was a war” wrote Boris Vasilyev. At first the author recalls his class. On the classmates resembles a photograph, where the guys are photographed in the 7th grade. Photographed suggested Iskra Polyakova. She dreamed that they would assemble the whole class in many, many years and remember what they were like in … Read more
ALEKO Opera in one act Libretto by V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko Characters: Aleko Young Gypsy Zemfira The old man (Zemfira’s father) The Old Gypsy Baritone Tenor Soprano Bass Contralto Gypsies. HISTORY OF CREATION A month before the final exam on the composition class, Rachmaninov received the assignment to write a thesis work – an opera on … Read more
Siegfried Lenz German lesson Ziggy Jepsen, a prisoner of the Hamburg colony for minors, receives a free German lesson for an unspoken essay on “The Joy of Executed Debt.” Yozvig himself, the beloved guard, escorts the youth to the punishment cell, where he is to “unlock the incombustible wardrobe of memories and push through the … Read more
In the estate of Raisa Pavlovna Gurmyzhskaya, “a very wealthy landowner,” Bulanov, “a young man who did not finish school in a gymnasium”, pestered Aksyusha’s pupil. Aksyusha leaves, and lackey Karp hints to Bulanov: do not he pay attention to the lady herself. At this time, Gurmyzhskaya herself appears and, along with her, “rich neighbors-landowners”: … Read more