MP Artsybashev Sanin The hero of the novel Vladimir Sanin lived for a long time outside the family, which is probably why he easily mastered the threads of all collisions that he noticed in his home and in a familiar city. Sister Sanina, the beautiful Lida, “a delicate and charming tangle of elegant tenderness and … Read more
The author, in strict sequence, titled each of his aphorisms, writes the following: At this time, the personality has reached maturity. All the advantages are strung on two bars – nature and culture. To achieve success, you need to “act discreetly” and unexpectedly. In the basis of greatness lie “wisdom and valor”. Reason and strength … Read more
Someone Ivlev rode once in early June to the far side of his district. At first it was pleasant to go: it was a warm, dull day, well laid down road. Then the weather grew dull, the clouds stretched, and when the village appeared ahead of me, Ivlev decided to call on the count. The … Read more
The action takes place in a small Argentine town on the border with Paraguay in the late 1960s – early 1970s. The protagonist is a doctor Eduards Plarr, a political emigrant from Paraguay, from where he left with his mother a fourteen-year-old teenager. His father, by birth an Englishman, fighter against the General’s regime, remained … Read more
This story was once told by the deacon Foma Grigorevich, and one pan managed to print it with a book, but his retelling was so bad that the author undertook to tell this story again. The deacon heard this story from his grandfather, who was famous for his truthfulness, and many details of history belong … Read more
“Journey of Humphrey Clinker” – the last work of an English writer: the novel was published a few months before his death in Livorno, where Smollet voluntarily went to a kind of “exile.” The novel is written in an epistolary style, which was not an innovation for English literature; In this style, many novels by … Read more
The middle of the XIX century. Privolny, rich in forests and crafts people – the upper Zavolzhie. They live here in labor and prosperity, confessing the old faith. There are quite a few peasants who have escaped to the merchants, that they are called thousandths. One of such rich-thousand-captains Patap Maksimych Chapurin dwells behind the … Read more
E. L. Schwartz The Naked King Having fallen in love with the royal daughter, the swineherd Henry has been persuading her to come to the lawn for a whole month, to see how the pigs graze. Princess Henrietta agrees to come only when she finds out that Heinrich has a magical bowler that can sing, … Read more
Mtskheta is the ancient capital of Georgia, founded there, “where, merging, rustling, / Embracing like two sisters, / Arahwa and Kury Strui.” Immediately, in Mtskheta, and Svetitskhoveli Cathedral with the tombs of the last kings of independent Georgia, “handed over” their own people “to the one-faith Russia. Since then, and blessed by the grace of … Read more
Yu. V. Mamleev Cranks Sixties. One of the main characters – Fyodor Sonnov, on the train to some near Moscow station, staggers through the streets of the town. Having met an unfamiliar young man, Fyodor kills him with a knife. After the crime – absolutely meaningless – the killer “talks” with his victim, talks about … Read more