The action begins in July 1942 with retreat under Oskol. The Germans came to Voronezh, and from the newly defended fortifications the regiment departs without a single shot, and the first battalion led by battalion commander Shiryaev remains for cover. The main character of the narrative, Lieutenant Kerzhentsev, remains to help the battalion commander. After … Read more
Y. Ivashkevich Praise and Glory Summer of 1914. In his Ukrainian estate Molinci lives a beautiful young landowner Evelina Royskaya. She has two sons: Yuzek is seventeen, a sweet, serious boy, and unbridled Valerek fourteen years old. Her husband studied agriculture in English agronomic journals and tried to instill in the Ukrainian estate English ways … Read more
WAR AND PEACE Opera in five acts (thirteen scenes) with a choral prologue Libretto by S. S. Prokofiev and M. A. Mendelson-Prokofieva Characters: Prince Nikolai Andreevich Bolkonsky Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, his son Princess Mary, the sister of Prince Andrey Count Ilya Andreevich Rostov Natasha, his daughter Sonya, cousin Natasha Akhrosimova, a relative of the Rostovs … Read more
Evgeny Alexandrovich Arbenin, a man of not the first youth, a player by nature and by profession, getting rich on cards, decides to change his destiny: conclude an “alliance with virtue,” marry and heal with a master. It is conceived – done. Life, however, makes a significant correction to this most beautiful plan. After getting … Read more
EDUARD FRANCEEVICH DIRECTORATE 1839-1916 Napravnik went down in the history of Russian music as a wonderful conductor and talented composer. He owns 4 operas, 4 symphonies, orchestral pieces, piano concerto, chamber ensembles, choirs, romances, compositions for pianoforte, violin, cello and so on. As a composer Napravnik did not have a vivid creative individuality; his works … Read more
About the work The poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila” by AS Pushkin is a fairy tale written in 1818-1820. The creation of the author’s work inspired Russian folk folklore, Russian epic novels and popular prints. Pushkin’s poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila” is full of elements of grotesque fiction, everyday vocabulary and good-natured irony of the author. According … Read more
The hero of the novel Lucius travels through Thessaly. On the way, he hears fascinating and terrible stories about sorcerous charms, transformations and other witches’ tricks. Lucius arrives in the Thessaly city of Hypatos and stops at the house of a certain Milo who is “stuffed with money, a terrible rich man, but he is … Read more
The trench is shallow, dry and dusty – hastily dug out overnight in the thaw that has just thawed from winter frosts, but already well dried. In order not to protrude, Voloshin stood bent over, with his high growth, it was tedious. Changing the pose, he knocked a bundle of earth from the parapet, painfully … Read more
Ashvaghosha Buddha’s Life A poem in 28 songs, from the Sanskrit original of which only the first thirteen and a half have survived, and the rest have come in Tibetan and Chinese transpositions King Shuddhodana of the Shakya family who lives in the city of Kapilavastu in the foothills of the Himalayas, the son of … Read more
The man Ivan Afrikanovich Drynov is riding on the driftwood. I drank with the tractor driver Mishka Petrov and now he talks with the gelding Parmen. Lucky selpovo goods for the store, and drove drunk in the wrong village, then home only – in the morning… It’s a habit. And at night on the road, … Read more