Yu. V. Trifonov Exchange The action takes place in Moscow. The mother of the protagonist, thirty-seven-year-old engineer Viktor Dmitriev, Ksenia Feodorovna is seriously ill, she has cancer, but she herself believes that she has a peptic ulcer. After the operation, she is sent home. The outcome is clear, but she alone believes that the matter … Read more
The gypsy camp roams the steppes of Bessarabia. At the campfire, a gypsy family prepares dinner, horses are grazing in the distance, and behind the tent is a tame bear. Gradually, everything stops and falls into a dream. Only in one tent does not sleep an old man, waiting for his daughter Zemfira, left to … Read more
Alice taught the Martian language. The weather was beautiful outside. I did not want to do Alice very much. Her father was very busy at that moment, writing a scientific article. Alice’s father was a very serious man, a cosmetic veterinarian, he treated strange animals. Suddenly the videophone rang. A normal goat appeared on the … Read more
RM Vallé-Inklan Sonata. Notes of the Marquis de Bradomin The cycle consists of four novellas: “Spring Sonata”, “Summer Sonata”, “Autumn Sonata” and “Winter Sonata”. They are presupposed by the “Warning” of the author: “This book is part of the” Pleasant notes “, which the Marquis de Bradomin was already quite gray-haired, was an amazing don … Read more
The action takes place in England in the second half of the fifteenth century, during the Wars of the Roses and the Roses. In the village of Tenstall, owned by Sir Daniel Brackley, a messenger appears who brings Sir Daniel’s order to the entire male population of the village to immediately march. The detachment should … Read more
Julius tries to find Lucinda where he used to see her-in her room, on their couch-and, without finding her, begins to conduct with her a strange, meaningless conversation, then yielding to the will of his fantasies, then resorting to help written down by him once leaflets, preserved by her caring hands. In this influx of … Read more
Anjou King dies on the battlefield. According to ancient custom, the throne passes to the eldest son. But that graciously offers younger brother Gamuret to divide the inheritance equally. Gamouret refuses wealth and goes to foreign lands, to knightly deeds glorify the name of the king. Gamurret offers his help to the ruler of Baghdad … Read more
In the romanized biography of his relative, Chevalier de Gramont, the author draws contemporary manners of the French nobility and the English court of the Restoration period. The reader gets acquainted with the hero during the military operations in Piedmont, where he thanks to a lively mind, sense of humor and hardness of the spirit … Read more
“Slav,” with a haircut in a circle, a “European”, not at all cropped and standing outside the parties of a young man with a haircut, like the author, discuss why there are no good actresses in Russia. The action takes place in the theater. Everyone agrees with the statement that there are no good actresses, … Read more
IS Turgenev Noble Nest The first, as usual, the news of the return Lavretzky brought in the house of the Kalitins Gedeonovsky. Maria Dmitrievna, the widow of the former provincial prosecutor, who, in her fifty years, preserved a certain pleasantness in her features, favors him, and her house is from the most pleasant in the … Read more