VS Makanin Where the sky meets the hills Composer Georgy Bashilov, listening to a guest at the usual, primitive-rough drinking song, frowns. The composer’s wife explains to others that he is not insulted by singing, but, on the contrary, feels guilty that his countrymen do not sing at all in the village where he comes … Read more
The action takes place in Germany, during the Second World War. The protagonist is a teenager Sergei, who was hijacked to Germany, to Arbaytla-ger. The narration covers about three years of the hero’s life. Non-human conditions of existence are described. Arbeit camp is better than concentration camp – the extermination camp, but only because people … Read more
The myths of ancient Greece describe events that occur according to the will of the gods. Heroes of myths are a product of gods and mortal women. They manifested themselves in exploits, destroyed mythical monsters, waged internecine wars. At the walls of the city of Ilium began the great Trojan War, and all the heroes … Read more
Last summer of the second world. Its outcome is already predetermined. Desperate resistance is exerted by fascists to Soviet troops on a strategically important direction – the right bank of the Dniester. A bridgehead in the one and a half square kilometer above the river, held by the entrenched infantry, is fired at night and … Read more
Our man in Havana Roman James Wormold is the main character of the novel, whose action takes place in Cuba and London. D. U. – Havana representative of the English firm “Fastklinks”, does not very successfully sell vacuum cleaners. He has a daughter, Millie (full name – Serafina). His wife escaped from DW with an … Read more
Two adventurers – the narrator Sam and Bill Driscoll – have already earned something, and now they need a little more to go into speculation in land. They decide to kidnap the son of one of the wealthiest inhabitants of a small town in the state of Alabama, Colonel Ebenezer Dorsett. The heroes do not … Read more
The action takes place in the modern author of France, mainly in Mansa, a city that is located two hundred kilometers from Paris. “Comic novel” is conceived as a parody of fashionable novels of “high style” – instead of wandering knights, its heroes are wandering comedians, countless fights replace fights, and the scenes of kidnapping … Read more
Story Turgenev’s “Singers” begins with a description of the village Kolotovka Orel province, nicknamed in the people Stryganikha in memory of the former landowner, who was famous for its “dashing temper.” The author compares the difficult terrain with a gaping abyss. At the very edge of the ravine is the “Sly” house, in which the … Read more
YEARNING A musical drama in three acts Libretto by L. Illik and D. Giacosa Characters: Floria Tosca, the famous singer Mario Cavaradossi, artist Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police Cesare Angelotti Sacristan Spoletta, a police agent Scaryone, gendarme Jailer Shepherd Soprano Tenor Baritone Bass Baritone Tenor Bass Bass Alto Cardinal, city prosecutor, hangman, scribe, officer, sergeant, … Read more
IS Turgenev Notes of a hunter: Two landlords Two landlords, honorable people, well-intentioned, respected. One of them was retired Major-General Vyacheslav Illarionovich Khvalynsky. A tall, once slender, he is a little aged and flabby, but still “stands briskly, laughs sonorous, jingles his spurs, twists his mustache.” He has some oddities. Talking “with the nobles not … Read more