She is almost fifty, he – half as many, their relationship lasts for seven years. She calls him an Angel. He is going to marry: his mother found him a bride – a young Edmey. Leonie Walson, known as Lea de Louval, completes the successful career of a secured courtesan. She hides her age – … Read more
The place and time of events the author precisely indicates at the end of the list of characters – Genoa, 1547. The play is preceded by the epigraph of the Roman historian Sallustius about Catalina: “I consider this villainy out of the ordinary by the unusualness and danger of crime.” The young wife of Count … Read more
After the death of Violet’s father, Smith and his mother were left without a livelihood. The girl earned her living by music lessons. Ralph Smith’s brother Ralph Smith has long gone to Africa. Recently two gentlemen, Mr. Woodley and Mr. Carruthers, complained to them and told them that their friend Ralph Smith, dying, asked to … Read more
There was much in the world of princes, all-powerful and cruel, but all were surpassed by the descendant of the ancient clan Prince Kimori Tayra, the ruler of the monk from Rokuhara’s estate, about his deeds, his rumor goes such that it is really impossible to describe in words. Six generations of the house of … Read more
Maxim Gorky Artamonovs’ Case Arrived in the town of Drymov Ilya Artamonov – a handsome stately man, told residents that he wanted to build a canvas factory on the riverbank. Earlier Ilya served as prikazychikom princes, got the will, for good service gave him money – that’s arrived to build. He has three sons – … Read more
The action of the comedy takes place in the London apartment of the young gentleman Algernon Moncrief, a descendant of an aristocratic family, and at the estate of his crony friend Jack Warding in Woolton, Hertfordshire. Bored Algernon, waiting for his aunt Lady Bracknell to tea with the charming daughter of Gwendolen, exchanges lazy cues … Read more
“Trachyonians” means “girls from the city of Trakhin”. Trakhin is a small town in the remote mountain outskirts of Greece, under the hill of This, not far from the glorious gorge of Thermopylae. He is famous only for the fact that the greatest of the Greek heroes Hercules, the son of Zeus, lived in his … Read more
Mikhail Sinyagin was born in 1887. For the imperialist war, he did not fall due to the infringement of the hernia. He writes poems in the spirit of the symbolists, decadents and aesthetic, walking with a flower in his buttonhole and a stack in his hand. He lives near Pskov, in the estate “Calm,” in … Read more
An interesting story about a little boy Mitya 7 years old and his mother. Father Mitya died after the war, and grandfather even earlier, Mitya did not even really remember him. His mother worked on the field, harnessed oxen and plowed the land to collect a rich harvest of bread. But the summer turned out … Read more
ANTON GRIGORIEVICH RUBINSTEIN 1829-1894 Rubinstein is a prominent figure in Russian music, a brilliant pianist, a talented and prolific composer. He wrote 15 operas, 5 oratories, 6 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, about 20 chamber-instrumental ensembles, 4 pianist sonatas, more than 160 songs and songs, and many works for pianoforte. Performing and public activities Rubinstein, especially … Read more