The aging Lionel Colston recalls the days he spent as a boy from his school friend Markus Models at the Brande Hall estate in the summer of 1900. The belief in the inviolability of the centuries-old order, when everyone should occupy a strictly defined position in the society that corresponds to his origin, This is … Read more
The educator of the heir to the throne of the Duke of Burgundy, the grandson of King Louis XIV, Fenelon wrote for his young pupil the philosophical utopian novel “The Adventures of Telemachus” about how a real sovereign should be and how to govern the people and the state. The novel takes place in ancient … Read more
N. V. Gogol The Marriage 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 … Read more
In the capital city of Kiev, Grand Duke Vladimir has a feast. At the feast princes, boyars and mighty warriors. Suddenly there are a hundred fellows, followed by a hundred more, and for those and a hundred more. All of them are beaten-wounded, the violent heads are tied with sashes. The beaten fellows beat the … Read more
In the wars between the British and the French for the possession of American lands, the opponents more than once used civil strife of Indian tribes. The time was difficult, cruel. Dangers lay in wait at every step. And it is not surprising that those traveling with Major Duncan Hayward to the commander of the … Read more
V. V. Nabokov Bend Sinister Bend Sinister is a term from heraldry (the art of composing and interpreting the arms), denoting the strip to the left of the coat of arms. The title of the novel is connected with the attitude of V. Nabokov to the “ominously leftward world,” that is, the spread of communist … Read more
To Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Hilton Cubit, a representative of the most ancient family in the English county of Norfolk, is asking for help. A year ago, Mr. Kyubitt married a young American named Ilsi. Before the wedding, the girl took the word from him that he would never ask her about his past life. All … Read more
Bishop of the small town of Aodi after the death of a relative, the Milanese Duke Francesco Sforza, becomes one of the contenders for the ducal throne. However, the turbulence of the turbulent time and the hatred of the enemies compel him to leave Milan and settle in his episcopal residence in Lodi; but also … Read more
The narrative is conducted on behalf of a young Spanish nobleman, who almost fell prey to diabolical intrigues. When Don Alvar Maravillas was twenty-five years old, he served as captain of the Guard of the King of Naples. Officers often indulged in philosophical conversations, and one day the conversation turned to kabbalistic: some considered it … Read more
It was under Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich that vagabonds and counterfeiters were exiled to the steppes of this region, but Gavrila Derzhavin, who was half-feinted, at that time half-feared, at Tambov, on the many cards of the imperial circles, got his name and got the pavements. Half a century passed, but not three of the main … Read more