AN Rybakov Children of Arbat The largest house on the Arbat – between Nikolsky and the Money Lanes. In it there live four former classmates. Three of them: Sasha Pankratov, the secretary of the Komsomol cell of the school, the son of the lifter Maxim Kostin and Nina Ivanova – were a cohesive group of … Read more
Moliere School of Husbands The text of the play is preceded by the author’s dedication to the Duke of Orleans, the King’s only brother. The brothers Sganarelle and Arist are unsuccessfully trying to convince each other of the need to change. Sganarelle, always morose and unsociable, condemning the fads of fashion, reproaches his elder brother … Read more
The girl Dorothy lived with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in the Kansas steppe. Uncle Henry was a farmer, and Aunt Em was farming. In these places, hurricanes often raged, and the family escaped from them in the cellar. One day Dorothy hesitated, did not have time to go down to the cellar, and the … Read more
On Mayakovsky’s head is the palm of the sun, the priest of the world, the surrenderer of all sins. The earth says to him: “Now let go of you!” Let the stupid historians, who were taught by contemporaries, write that the poet lived a boring and uninteresting life. Let him know that he will drink … Read more
Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov (12 (24) February 1895, Lebyazhye settlement of Semipalatinsk province, now Kazakhstan – August 15, 1963, Moscow) is a Soviet writer. Born in the family of a teacher. Ivanov’s youth was held in Western Siberia; he did not finish school, he was forced to make a living early, mastered various professions (a typewriter, … Read more
The narrator-woman talks about her youth, held in Saigon. The main events date from 1932 to 1934. A French girl of fifteen and a half years lives in the state boarding house in Saigon, and studies in the French lycée. Her mother wants her daughter to get secondary education and herds as a mathematics teacher … Read more
The titular adviser Aksenti Ivanovich Poprishchin, forty two years old, keeps his diary entries for over four months. On a rainy day on Tuesday, October 3, 1933, Poprishchin, in his old-fashioned greatcoat, leaves, after a while, for an unloved service in one of the departments of the St. Petersburg department, hoping to get a little … Read more
A young Frenchman, medical student Ferdinand Bardamu, is enlisted under the influence of propaganda as a volunteer in the army. For him, life begins, full of hardship, horror and exhausting transitions in Flanders, on the territory of which the French troops take part in the First World War. Once Bardam sent to the intelligence service. … Read more
Pushkin’s story “Stationmaster” was written in 1830 and entered the cycle “The Stories of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin.” The leading theme of the work is the theme of the “little man”, represented by the image of station supervisor Samson Vyrin. The story refers to the literary trend of sentimentalism. Main characters The narrator is … Read more
Scrooge was a good miser. He was the owner of the famous office “Scrooge and Marley,” and although the companion had long since died, he still did not change the sign. It was Christmas Eve. Scrooge was unhappy. He did not like holidays, because these days the money was wasted. And he did not spend … Read more