In ancient times, a certain Taoist monk, the elder Lui, who comprehended the mystery of immortality, met at the inn with a boy named Lou. They began to talk, and the young man began to complain about his unfortunate fate: he studied for so many years, and everything vegetates without a great career. Then he … Read more
MERMAID Lyrical fairy tale in three acts Libretto by Y. Kvapila Characters: Prince Princess Mermaid Water Baba Yaga Forester The cook The first nymph The second nymph The third nymph Hunter Tenor Soprano Soprano Bass Contralto Tenor Soprano Soprano Soprano Contralto Baritone Prince’s retinue, guests, forest nymphs, mermaids. The action takes place in a fairy-tale … Read more
ME Saltykov-Shchedrin Diary of a provincial in Petersburg Diary? Well no! Rather, notes, notes, memories – more correctly, physiology (a forgotten genre in which fiction is combined with journalism, sociology, psychology, in order to more fully, and more easily describe a social slice). And now the hero is already on the train, rushing him from … Read more
In the early winter morning from the porch of the Moscow hotel Chevalier, after spending a long time with friends after a long dinner, Dmitry Andreevich Olenin drives off on the Yamskaya troika to the Caucasian infantry regiment, where he is enlisted as a cadet. From a young age, without parents, Olenin squandered half of … Read more
George Orwell 1984 The action takes place in 1984 in London, the capital of the Runway number one, the province of Oceania. Winston Smith, a short, frail man of thirty-nine, is going to start a diary in an old thick notebook recently bought in a junk shop. If the diary is found, Winston is waiting … Read more
Emile Zola Zapadnya The novel takes place in Paris and tells about the life of several heroes for twenty years. 1 Night. A young woman, Gervaise, is waiting for her lodging partner in her wretched room. She is slim, “with delicate features, already battered by the harsh life.” Gervaise limps on one leg. Two sons … Read more
MODEST PETROVICH MOUSSORGSKY 1839-1881 Mussorgsky is a great composer-realist, the creator of a brightly original innovative art. Artistic views of Mussorgsky formed under the influence of revolutionary democratic ideas of the 1860s. The composer saw his goal in a truthful depiction of the life of the oppressed people, in exposing the social monstrosities of the … Read more
VS Rozov Nest of wood grouse Apartment Sudakov in Moscow. Its owner – Stepan Alekseevich – serves somewhere in the sphere of work with foreigners. His son Proov finishes school. Father wants him to go to MGIMO. Daughter Iskra works in the newspaper in the department of letters. She’s twenty-eight years old. She is married. … Read more
To Sherlock Holmes appeals for help Percy Phelps, a schoolmate of Dr. Watson. Phelps is ill and can not visit the apartment on Baker Street, so Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go to the manor near London. They are met by Mr. Joseph Harrison, brother of the bride of Percy, whose room he now occupies. … Read more
The story “Chameleon” by Anton Chekhov was first published in 1884 in the journal “Shards”. The work was included in the collection “Colored Stories”. In “Chameleon” Chekhov ridicules Ochumelov-like unprincipled people-“chameleons”, who, depending on the situation, change their minds on the most beneficial for them. Main characters Ochumelov is a police overseer. Yeldyrin is a … Read more