In December 1886 Count Andrea Sperelli waits in her chambers for the beloved. The refined atmosphere evokes memories – these things touched Elena’s hands, Elena’s eyes fell on these pictures and curtains, the smell of these flowers intoxicated Elena. When she bent down to the fireplace, her figure looked like Dana Correggio. Two years passed, … Read more
Lucian Conversations in the realm of the dead I. Diogenes and Polydeuces Once again Diogenes returns to the land Polidevka Diogenes gives instructions. He must pass on the cunea of Menippus (ridiculing all idle philosophers-debaters) that in the realm of the dead he will have even more occasions for mirth and ridicule, for here tyrants, … Read more
Elisaveta Andreevna Protasova decides to part with her husband, Fedor Vasilyevich, whose way of life becomes intolerable for her: Fedya Protasov drinks, squanders his and his wife’s fortune. Lisa’s mother approves of her decision, Sasha’s sister – categorically against parting with such an amazing, though with weakness, person, like Fedya. Mother believes that, having received … Read more
V. Astafiev – the story “Lyudochka.” In this story, the author presents us with the tragic story of a village girl. The story is preceded by an epigraph and an introduction. The epigraph is verse, in the introduction we read Pushkin’s lines: “What’s in a name you mine?”. The introduction is filled with author’s questions: … Read more
VG Korolenko the Wonderful Morozova is the main character, a political prisoner. In the center of the narrative of this early work of the writer is the story of the escort gendarme Gavrilov about the girl-politician (political prisoner) Morozova, whom he accompanied to exile. She seemed to the narrator a child: “hair is fair-haired, in … Read more
“Suhodol” is a family chronicle of Khrushchev’s noblemen. In the center of the work, in addition, – the fate of Natalia, a courtyard, who lived with Khrushchev as a native, being his father’s milk sister. The narrator repeatedly repeats the idea of the proximity of the Sukhodol’sk masters to his yard. He himself first enters … Read more
The action takes place “on the one hundred and eighty-fourth kilometer from Moscow along the branch that goes to Murom and Kazan.” The narrative is conducted from the first person, and the narrator himself, his destiny very much resemble the very A. Solzhenitsyn, his fate. The narrator came “just to Russia,” no one was waiting … Read more
In Alexandria party Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra indulge in love. Antonia’s supporters say that she is in the position of a female clown. Antony leaves Egypt after learning that his wife Fulvia died, namely, she raised an uprising against the second party, Octavius Caesar; and that Sextus Pompey, who is the son … Read more
From England to the Greek island of Corfu moved the family of Darrell, the widow of Mrs. Darrell and her four children: writer Larry twenty-three years old, nineteen-year-old amateur hunting Leslie, eighteen-year-old Margot and ten-year-old Jerry, who has been addicted to animals since birth. Suffering from the climate of foggy Albion, Darrell at the initiative … Read more
Step 1 On the street, at the bus stop, waiting for transportation is Tanya, a girl of 19 years, reading posters. Student of the last course Nikolai Kolesov, a young man of 24 years old, is persistently trying to meet her. Soon he explains that he promised to come to the wedding to a friend … Read more