March 1865 In the United States during the Civil War, five brave Northmen flee from the southerly Richmond in a balloon. A terrible storm throws out four of them to the shore of an uninhabited island in the Southern Hemisphere. The fifth man and his dog break into the sea near the shore. This fifth … Read more
L. N. Tolstoy’s adolescence Immediately after arriving in Moscow, Nicholas feels the changes that have taken place with him. In his soul there is a place not only for his own feelings and experiences, but also compassion for someone else’s grief, the ability to understand the actions of others. He realizes all the unhappiness of … Read more
Yu. N. Tynyanov Pushkin Sergey Lyubovitch Pushkin was born a son, whom he named in memory of his grandfather Alexander. After the christening in Pushkin’s house on German street in Moscow a modest “kurtag” is arranged: in addition to relatives, the Frenchman Montfort and Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin are invited. A pleasant conversation with refined poetic … Read more
Jean Cocteau Hell Machine The play, based on the motifs of the myth about Edil, unfolds in ancient Greece. The Queen of Thebes of Jocasta, in order to prevent the oracle’s prediction that her son, when he grows up, will kill his father, King of Leah, the king of Thebes, seventeen years ago ordered the … Read more
Alexander Dumas Graf Monte Cristo February 27, 1815 in Marseille from the next voyage returns three-masted ship “Pharaoh”. Captain LeClair was not destined to set foot on his native land: he died of fever in the open sea. The young seaman Edmond Dantes took over the command and executed another last will of the captain: … Read more
Dona Juana in a men’s suit – green pants and a camisole – comes from his native Valladolid to Madrid. Quintana, her old faithful servant, accompanies her. He asks the lady why she left her father’s house and travels in a man’s guise. Juan tells that on Easter, in April, she went out for a … Read more
COVER-ANGLE Opera in five acts Libretto by M. S. Ordubadi and G. Ismailov Characters: Alah, the old man, the horse-driver at Gasan Khan Rovshen (later Ker-ogly), his son Nigar, beloved Rovshan Eyvaz, her brother Hasan Khan Bass Tenor Soprano Tenor Baritone Ibrahim Khan Gamza-bey } Approximate Gasan Khan Bass Tenor Ehsan-pasha Polad, servant of Hasan … Read more
Returning from the parade ground, Second Lieutenant Romashov thought: “Today I will not go: you can not bother people every day.” Every day he sat at the Nikolaevs until midnight, but on the evening of the next day he again went to this cozy house. “You came from the mistress of the letter,” Gainan, the … Read more
Towards Svanu Time eludes a brief moment between sleep and awakening. Within a few seconds, the narrator Marcel seems to have turned into what he read the day before. The mind is determined to locate the sleeping room. Is this the grandfather’s house in Combra, and Marcel fell asleep without waiting for Mom to come … Read more
On June 26, 1864, the crew of the Duncan yacht, owned by Lord Edward Glenarvan, the most prominent member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club and the wealthy Scottish landowner, catches the shark in the Irish Sea, in the belly of which finds a bottle with a note in three languages: English, German and French. … Read more