VN Voinovich Two comrades Sixties. A small provincial town in Russia. Nineteen-year-old Valera Vazhenin lives with her mother and grandmother. Mama Valery works as a senior standard-setting laborer at the plant. The father left the family when the son was six or seven years old, and lives with his new wife Shura. He is a … Read more
July 11, 1856 in a room of one of the large hotels in St. Petersburg find a note left by a strange guest. The memo says that its author will soon be heard on the Liteiny Bridge and that no one should have any suspicions. The circumstances are being clarified very soon: at night a … Read more
The amateur performance, set in the halls of the former medieval abbey and now the estate of Baron Sivud, changed the fate of its participants and many other people, contributed to the age-old struggle of socialist revolutionaries and conservative aristocrats, proved to be a very instructive episode in British history and, at the end he … Read more
Pushkin’s play “Mozart and Salieri” was written in 1830 and entered the famous cycle of the author “Little Tragedies.” This work is about two composers, who in different ways approached the creation of music – through hard work and inspiration. In the final of the play, Salieri kills his comrade, because he envies his genius. … Read more
Herman Bar the Apostle Time and place of action by the playwright are not defined, but by all signs events in all three acts occur in the modern author era. The house of the minister. Gol, emphasizing his rights as an old friend of the family, urgently demands from his master’s host Irene to urgently … Read more
An old garden, in a willow garden. In the back of the house, three windows of the lower floor are lit. Father is sitting by the fireplace. The mother leans her elbows on the table and looks into the void. Two young girls in white embroider. Leaning head on the mother’s left hand, the child … Read more
V. V. Bykov Go and never come back It was snowing. Putnitsa wandered around the frozen swamp, beginning to worry more and more. Those who sent her also did not expect snowfall, which unexpectedly began about two hours ago. Now Zoska had a clear trail, but soon it would be covered by snow. Worse, she … Read more
The story of Nikolai Semenovich Leskov “The Enchanted Wanderer” was written in 1872-1873. The work entered the cycle of the author’s legends, which was dedicated to the Russian righteous. “Enchanted Wanderer” is distinguished by a fantastic form of narration – Leskov imitates the oral speech of characters, saturating it with dialectisms, vernacular words, etc. The … Read more
N. G. Pomyalovsky Molotov In one of the St. Petersburg apartment houses on the Catherine’s canal lives the family of an official Ignat Vasilich Dorogov. He has six children, the oldest of them is Nadya, she is twenty years old. Mother of the family, Anna Andreevna, is an exemplary mistress. The house is full of … Read more
Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Children May 20, 1859 Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov, a forty-three-year-old landowner who was already middle-aged, anxiously awaiting his son Arkady, who had just graduated from the university, at the inn. Nikolai Petrovich was the son of a general, but his military career did not take place (he broke his leg in his … Read more