VV Ivanov Kremlin In the year when Grand Prince Ivan III ordered the erection of the Moscow Kremlin, the prince Nikita, who owned the city Podzol in the upper Volga, planned to build his Kremlin better than the tsarist. And in the last century opposite the Kremlin, on the other side of the hill, there … Read more
Not far from my estate there is a young landowner, an officer in retirement, Arkady Pavlovich Penochkin. He is a sensible and educated man, he cares for his subjects and punishes them for their own good. Growth is small and not bad. From his light brown eyes and ruddy cheeks, he is bursting with health … Read more
On stage is an ordinary theater room with three walls, a window and a door. The Mystics of both sexes are sitting at the table with a concentrated look in their coats and fashionable dresses. Pierrot is sitting at the window in a white robe. Mystics are waiting for the arrival of Death, Pierrot awaits … Read more
William Faulkner Light in August Even less than a month, it took Lina Grove to get on foot and when, but rarely, on a passing wagon ride from a provincial village at a sawmill in Alabama to the city of Jefferson, Mississippi, where, as she somehow thought, Lucas Birch, from which she suffered and whom, … Read more
Agatha Christie Villa The White Horse Mark Easterbrook, a man of scientific stature and rather conservative views, once watches in one of the Chelsea bars the scene that struck him: two girls dressed sloppy and too warm (thick sweaters, thick woolen stockings), quarreling over cavalier, clung to each other’s hair, so much so that one … Read more
Alden Pyle is a representative of the economic department of the American Embassy in Saigon, an antagonist of Fowler, another hero of the novel. Being a generalized depiction of quite concrete political forces and methods of struggle in the world arena, the figure of O. P. carries a deeper and broader meaning. Before us is … Read more
Knut Hamsun Pan The author uses the form of the first person narrative. His hero – a thirty-year-old Lieutenant Thomas Glan recalls the events that occurred two years ago, in 1855. The impetus was the letter that came by mail – in an empty envelope lay two green bird feathers. Glan decides for his own … Read more
Joe came to New York to study painting. There he met Dilius, a girl who came to complete a musical education. Young people fell in love and got married. They rented a small apartment, where they were happy. Joe studied painting, and she took music lessons. Until they ran out of money. Дилия has decided … Read more
M. Yu. Lermontov Mtsyri Mtskheta – the ancient capital of Georgia, founded there, “where, merging, rustling, / Embracing as if two sisters, / Strui Aragva and the Kura.” Immediately, in Mtskheta, and Svetitskhoveli Cathedral with the tombs of the last kings of independent Georgia, “handed over” their people “to the one-faith Russia. Since then (the … Read more
AG Elenschleger Axel and Valborg The play takes place from the beginning to the end in the solemn atmosphere of the Trondheim cathedral in Nidaros, the medieval capital of Norway. On the sides of the scene – funerary niches, in the center – the tomb of Harald, the grandfather of the ruling king Hakon Shirokoplechego. … Read more