Our troops liberated the whole of Byelorussia and most of Lithuania in the summer of 1944. In these territories, there are still separate groups of German soldiers, many enemy agents, underground groups and gangs. All these shadow groups acted unexpectedly and very cruelly: behind them there were many crimes and murders. In addition, underground organizations, … Read more
The middle of the last century, the town with the pretentious name of St. Petersburg… America, where no factories, no railroads, no class struggle, but instead chickens wander among the houses with kitchen gardens… A pious province where Aunt Polly, alone raising Tom Sawyer, does not take up the rod, not backing up his fragile … Read more
Hunter-lover Eckels buys a journey through time in the Mesozoic era. The most damned adventure that a real hunter can dream about. A journey of sixty million years ago and the greatest prey of all time. The head of the hunt Trevis reports severe restrictions. You can kill only an animal that already dies. You … Read more
John Milton The Lost Paradise The poet reflects on the reason for the disobedience of the first four people who violated the only ban of the Creator of all things and were expelled from Eden. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, the poet calls the cause of the fall of Adam and Eve: it is Satan … Read more
IS Turgenev Rudin In the village house of Darya Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, a former beauty and a capital lioness who, far from civilization, still organizes a salon, awaits a certain baron, scholar and connoisseur of philosophy who promised to acquaint her with her scientific research. Lasunskaya takes the conversation with the … Read more
Ostrovsky’s play “The Dowry” was written in 1874 – 1878. The premiere of the play took place in the autumn of 1878. The play is a vivid example of psychological realism in Russian literature. In “The Dowry” Ostrovsky brought to the fore the conflict between the material world, the world of money and the spiritual, … Read more
The most vivid and most painful memory of the hero of the novel is the memory of the murder committed during the Civil War. Once in the summer, in the south of Russia, after the end of the battle, the hero rides a black mare on a desert road, and most of all he wants … Read more
The anti-utopian novel “The Pit” by Andrei Platonov was written in 1930. The plot of the work is based on the idea of building a “general proletarian house”, which will be the beginning of the whole city of a “happy future.” Using the philosophical, surrealistic grotesque and rigid satire on the USSR of the times … Read more
Bylina “Sadko” is considered the most ancient example of the Russian folk epic, which has survived to the present day. The work belongs to the Novgorod cycle of epic stories that tell about the life, life and beliefs of the inhabitants of Veliky Novgorod. The central character of the epic is the guslar Sadko, who … Read more
Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis The Trojan War began. The Trojan prince Paris deceived and kidnapped Elena, the wife of the Spartan king Menelaus. The Greeks gathered on them a huge army, led by Argos king Agamemnon, Brother Menelaus and Clytemnestra’s husband – Elena’s sister. The army stood in Aulis – on the Greek shore, facing … Read more