Star A platoon of Soviet intelligence officers entered the village. It was an ordinary western Ukrainian village. The commander of scouts Lieutenant Travkin thought about his people. Of the eighteen former, proven fighters, he has only twelve left. The rest have just been recruited, and what they will be in the case is unknown. And … Read more
Disclosing the secret of the tragic death of Madame D’Espana and her daughter, Auguste Dupin again plunges into her melancholy meditations. However, Dupin’s role in the drama on Morgue Street earned him the glory of the seer from the Parisian police, and the prefecture repeatedly tried to resort to his services again. Another attempt is … Read more
The out-of-court adviser Podkolesin, lying on the couch with a pipe and thinking that it would not hurt to still marry, calls on Stepan’s servant, who asks about whether the matchmaker did not go in, and about visiting a tailor, about the quality of the cloth worn and not asked the tailor why the gentleman … Read more
Chapter 1 The nobleman Vasily Volkov reflects on how the state treasury, emptied of wars and riots, robbed the landlords. Peasant Volkov, Ivashka Brovkin, at the same time thinking about the heavy share of the peasant. Both the nobles and peasants harbored anger at the wealthy boyars. Volkov is going to Moscow for an annual … Read more
Ivan Ivanych and Burkin go around the field. In the distance one can see the village of Mironositskoe. It starts to rain, and they decide to go to the landowner Pavel Konstantinych Alekhin, whose estate is located nearby in the village of Sofiyino. Alyokhin, “a man of about forty, tall, full with long hair, looking … Read more
LI Tik The wanderings of Franz Sternbald The novel is stylized as an Old Germanic story. The beginning of the narrative is about 1521. Franz Sternbald, an artist, a young disciple of Albrecht Dürer, a renowned German painter, leaves Nuremberg and travels on a long journey to reach Italy and learn from Italian artists. Franz … Read more
Russia. Late XIX – early XX century. The Brothers of Color, Tikhon and Kuzma, were born in a small village of Durnovka. In their youth they were engaged in small trade, then they quarreled, and their ways parted. Kuzma went to work for hire. Tikhon took off his inn, opened a tavern and shop, began … Read more
Arthur Miller The death of a traveling salesman A simple melody is heard – about the grass, the sky, the foliage… Sixty-year-old traveling salesman Willie Loman with two large suitcases goes to his New York house, sandwiched between skyscrapers. He is very exhausted and a little scared: after leaving the morning with samples of goods, … Read more
JA Baldwin Another country The action takes place mainly in New York in the sixties of our century. A young talented black musician Rufus acquainted with the southern Leona. The woman has a hard time: the husband left her, taking the child, and the most difficult was that the relatives did not help her at … Read more
LOENINGRIN Romantic opera in three acts (four scenes) R. Wagner’s libretto Characters: Lohengrin Elsa, Princess of Brabant Duke Gottfried, her brother Heinrich Ptitselov, Germanic king Friedrich Telramund, Brabant Count Ortruda, his wife The Royal Herald 4 Brabant Knights 4 pages Tenor Soprano Without speeches Bass Baritone Soprano Bass Tenors and basses Alti Counts, knights, ladies, … Read more