In a small town on the Black Sea coast, two friends are talking during a bath. Ivan Andreevich Laevsky, a young man of about twenty-eight, shares the secrets of his personal life with the military doctor Samoilenko. Two years ago he got along with a married woman, they fled from Petersburg to the Caucasus, telling … Read more
Swiss province of the beginning of XX century. A young man named Josef Marty is an assistant in the technical bureau of engineer Karl Tobler. Before entering the new place, Josef had to live a few months without work, so he very much appreciates his current position and tries to be worthy of the hopes … Read more
The watchdog Ruslan heard how something out of the night outside exhaled, lanterns shook with a gnash. Calmed down only by morning. The master came and took him to the service. But when the door opened, a white bright light suddenly poured into his eyes. Snow – that’s what it got out at night. And … Read more
IA Bunin Lyrnik Rodion The author travels along the lower reaches of the Dnieper on a small steamboat “Oleg”. In the first class there is a girl (the captain’s acquaintance), in the second – a few Jews and a poor actor, who, however, immediately begins to give the girl’s attention signs. The lower deck is … Read more
“Suhodol” is a family chronicle of Khrushchev’s noblemen. In the center of the work, in addition, – the fate of Natalia, a courtyard, who lived with Khrushchev as a native, being his father’s milk sister. The narrator repeatedly repeats the idea of the proximity of the Sukhodol’sk masters to his yard. He himself first enters … Read more
The novel begins with a description of a small haberdashery in the Parisian arcade, which contains Teresa Raken and her aunt of 60 years – Mrs. Raken. They live in the same building, on the upper floors. Before, Ms. Raken traded fancy goods in Vernon, but after the death of her husband, closed the case … Read more
Through the boundless snowy desert, three dog sleds are moving: Mason, his wife, an Indian Ruth, and his friend Mailman Kyd. Their products are running out. Hunger torments both people and dogs. Two hundred miles ahead on the unsettled snow road. Eating is enough for only six days, and for dogs and nothing at all. … Read more
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen – Russian writer, publicist, philosopher, revolutionary, the founder of domestic political emigration – was illegitimate child of a wealthy Moscow landowner I. Yakovlev. Born on April 6 (March 25, art.), 1812, the boy was given the name Herzen, invented by his father. He grew up in his father’s house and was educated, … Read more
The novel in verse begins with the fact that the young nobleman Eugene Onegin goes to his uncle, anticipating a premonition of boredom. But, frankly speaking, Eugene is already nothing in life is happy – he’s sick of everything, he wants new impressions, he looks for them and does not find them. As a child, … Read more
An outlandish man Ivan Semenovich Stratilatov. Young began his judicial service in a long, low, smoky office of the criminal department. And now forty years have passed, and many secretaries have since been replaced, and he is sitting at a large table by the window, wearing smoky glasses, baldness all over his head, and copying … Read more