It so happened that in the last war year a local resident Andrei Guskov returned to a distant village on the Angara in secret from the war. The deserter does not think that in his father’s house he will be greeted with open arms, but he believes and does not deceive his wife’s understanding. His … Read more
Director of the Institute of Information Machines Professor Marya Kovaleva, who lives with two adult sons-obwitus, feels that she is tired of everyday life, and decides to somehow diversify her existence, for example, to cut her hair. Waiting for the queue in the barbershop, Marya Vladimirovna reflects on how she will start a new life … Read more
Yu. V. Bondarev Silence The euphoria of the Moscow pre-New Year’s Eve in December 45 coincided with the mood of the recently demobilized from Germany captain Sergei Vohmintsev, “when it seemed that everything beautiful in himself and in life he had just realized and it should not disappear. ” Four years of war, the command … Read more
AT Tvardovsky I’m killed near Rzhev I’m killed under Rzhev, In an unnamed swamp, In the fifth company, On the left, In a cruel raid. I did not hear the rupture And I did not see that flash. – Exactly into the abyss from the cliff – And neither the bottom, nor the tires. And … Read more
The estate of the landlord Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya. Spring, cherry trees bloom. But a beautiful garden should soon be sold for debts. For the past five years, Ranevskaya and her seventeen-year-old daughter Ana have lived abroad. On the estate remained brother Ranevskaya Leonid Andreevich Gayev and her adopted daughter, twenty-four-year-old Varya. Ranevskaya’s affairs are bad, … Read more
In the cheapest room of the furnished rooms “Lisbon” from the corner into the corner went the third-year medical student, Stepan Klochkov, and zealously assassinated his medicine. From the relentless, tense zubryachki his mouth was dry and his sweat appeared on his forehead. At the window, glazed at the edges with icy patterns, sat on … Read more
The action of the product unfolds in 1918-1919 in the unknown City of N, which resembles Kiev. He is occupied by the German invaders, the power is concentrated in the hands of the hetman. Everybody is waiting for Petlyura fighters to enter the city. Life in the village is strange and unnatural. In the house … Read more
Another heroic story, written by Vasily Bykov – “Obelisk.” The summary will introduce the reader to this work, written in 1971, and in 1974 for this novel the author received the State Prize. Moreover, a few years later, the Obelisk was filmed. Than caused even greater popularity. The first pages of the story The work … Read more
Italo Calvino Baron on the tree The incredible events of this novel, combining features and essays, and utopia, and philosophical satirical stories, occur at the turn of the XVIII and XIX centuries. His hero, Baron Cosimo di Rondo, at the age of twelve, protesting against the boiled snails served every day for dinner, climbs onto … Read more
Part one The source of the plot were several anonymous plays and the chronicles of Hollshed, with whom, however, Shakespeare treated quite freely. The plays about the reign of Henry IV form, as it were, the middle part of the tetralogy, the beginning of which is “Richard II”, and the end is “Henry V”. All … Read more