At the end of the warm October day, when the harvest was already grown, and nature was full of a calm autumn, a forty-year-old journalist from a regional newspaper in the Grodno region, seeing an acquaintance on the street, learned that two days ago a young teacher, Miklashevich, from the village of Seltso had died. … Read more
As soon as the misty haze of the New Year’s Eve faded, the court ladies who served in Tomikoji’s palace appeared in the reception hall, competing with each other in the glitter of dresses. That morning, I had a seven-layer undergarment – the color changed from pale pink to dark red: on top of a … Read more
In the evening there were four people in the collective farm’s administration: the bearded cattle breeder Tsipyshev, the storekeeper Shchukin, the brigade leader of the field-brigade Ivan Konoplev and the collective farm chairman Pyotr Kuzmich Kudryavtsev. They were waiting for the start of the party meeting, but the teacher Akulina Semenovna, the fifth member of … Read more
I. Bunin’s poem “The Epiphany Night” (perception, interpretation, evaluation) IA Bunin is a poet from God. His work combines tradition and innovation. Using the best achievements of poets – classicists, novelists, he at the beginning of the twentieth century creates his own, unique, poetry. Bunin’s prose is as lyrical as his poems. A great place … Read more
The young male narrator, who “cast fate for six months in the remote village of Perebrod, Volyn province, on the outskirts of Polissya,” unbearably misses, and his only entertainment was hunting with the servant Yarmola and trying to teach the latter literacy. One day, during a terrible blizzard, the hero learns from the usually inconsiderate … Read more
Daniel Defoe Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Peace is not for Robinson, he hardly hangs in England for several years: thoughts about the island are haunted him day and night. His wife’s age and sensible speeches keep him for the time being. He even buys a farm, intends to engage in rural labor, to which … Read more
A. Kuprin. “Emerald”: a summary of 1-3 chapters Emerald is a four-year-old horse of the American warehouse of gray suit, often participating in cross-country competitions. It is contained in the stables of an Englishman, keen on horseback riding. Next to the stallion, there are other horses in their stalls. This is a young filly of … Read more
VT Narezhny Two Ivan, or Passion for litigation Summer noon. Two young philosophers, Nikanor Zubar and Koronat Khmara, having studied for ten years in the Seminary of Poltava and “having exhausted all the fount of wisdom in that temple,” make their way home through the dense forest. The storm makes them seek refuge, and they … Read more
The reader meets the narrator at an Amsterdam bar called “Mexico City”. The narrator, a former lawyer who had extensive practice in Paris, after a critical period in his life moved to a place where no one knows him and where he tries to get rid of his sometimes heavy memories. He is very sociable … Read more
JULIA SERGEYEVIC MAITUS The genus. in 1903 The creative activity of Meitus, one of the prominent composers of Soviet Ukraine, began in the 1930s. Deep interest in Ukrainian folk music from the very first steps determined the direction of his activities. Numerous processing of folk songs influenced the musical language of the original works of … Read more