Tiltil and Mitil peacefully sleep on the eve of Christmas. Music is heard outside the windows and wakes the children. They look out into the street and see the noisy celebration of Christmas from rich neighbors. Then someone knocked at the door. On the threshold stood an old woman in green robes with a coquettish … Read more
IS Turgenev Notes of the hunter: Chor and Kalinich The story begins with the author’s reasoning about how and how people who live in Orel province and Kaluga differ. “The Orel man is small in height, stooped, sullen, looks slyly, lives in crooked aspen groves, goes to the corvee, does not trade in trade, eats … Read more
The protagonist, a journalist, left without work, leafing through his newspaper clippings collected for “ten years of lies and pretense.” It’s the 70’s when he lived in Tallinn. Each newspaper text-compromise is followed by the author’s memories – real conversations, feelings, events. Having listed in the note those countries from which specialists came to the … Read more
R. B. Sheridan Duenya The action takes place in Spain, where rich fathers specifically hire evil duennies to look after their young daughters and strictly abridge their morality. This is exactly how Don Geronimo, the father of the beautiful Luisa, acted. However, he grossly made a mistake in his calculations… Night. Don Don Antonio, a … Read more
In this tale, V. V. Bianchi talks about the protective devices of animals. At the heart of the plot is the first hunt of an inexperienced presumptuous puppy. Puppy one goes to the forest. There he sees quite real beetles, caterpillars, butterflies, lizards, birds. As well as it is necessary in a fairy tale, all … Read more
In the village of Salameya enters the regiment of soldiers under the leadership of the captain. They are very exhausted by a long, exhausting transition and dream of rest. This time their happiness is smiling: instead of a short halt, they are expected for several days of quiet life – the regiment remains in Salameja … Read more
Zeus favored the Trojan War, so that the century of people began. Those who survived the war will fall on the way back. The surviving Greeks went home through the Aegean Sea. Half-way Poseidon threw down on them a storm, almost all died, the fleet is defeated. Not all those who survived the storm returned … Read more
In 1918 Vladimir brought his beloved Olga a bouquet of asters. At this time, they give their loved ones mainly flour and millet, and bags, like corpses, lie under beds of Karelian birch. Tinting her lips with a gold gerlenov pencil, Olga is interested in her boyfriend, can it happen that Moscow can not get … Read more
SERGEI VASILYEVICH RAHMANINOV 1873-1943 Rachmaninov – a remarkable composer, pianist and conductor – wrote a bright page in the history of the world musical culture. In five piano concertos, three symphonies, operas and cantatas, compositions for pianoforte and romances, unique features of his work are depicted: the severity of life conflicts, pathetics, soulful lyricism. Sergei … Read more
A. N. Ostrovsky Storm Events take place in the first half of the 19th century, in the fictional Kalinove town of Privolzhsky. The first action is in a public garden on the high bank of the Volga. A local self-taught mechanic, Kuligin, talks with young people – Kudryash, the clerk of the rich merchant Dikoy, … Read more