Jean Racine Berenice The source of the tragedy was the biography of Emperor Titus in the book of the Roman historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquill’s The Life of the Twelve Caesars. The emperor Titus wants to marry the Palestinian queen Berenice, but Roman laws forbid marriage with an unmarried woman, and the people may not approve … Read more
Parents of the ten-year-old Luzhin by the end of the summer finally decide to tell their son that after returning from the village to Petersburg he will go to school. Afraid of the impending change in his life, little Luzhin runs off the station back to the estate before the arrival of the train and … Read more
On the Trinity, in the chambers of the noble and kind King Arthur, a brilliant nobleman is feasting. Knights lead a pleasant conversation with the ladies. As everyone knows, in those blessed times, ardent tenderness and courtesy were valued above all – today morals have become much rougher, no one thinks about purity, genuine feeling … Read more
The main heroine of the novel, Hazel – a 17-year-old young girl – has suffered for several years one of the most severe forms of cancer. By a miracle she manages to survive, but she is forever deprived of the ability to breathe on her own. She does not attend school, lives in a world … Read more
A. Serafimovich Sparrow’s night On the beach, near the ferry, stood a small wooden board house. In the room ferryman Cyril slept and a boy of 10 Vasya (Kirill’s assistant). Early in the spring, Vasya’s mother brought Kirill to her house. Vasya worked only for bread. Early in the morning they knocked on the house … Read more
DON JUAN Opera in two acts1 Libretto by L. da Ponte Characters: Don Juan Commander Donna Anna, his daughter Don Ottavio, the groom of Donna Anna Donna Elvira Leporello, the servant of Don Juan Zerlina Mazetto Baritone Bass Soprano Tenor Soprano Bass Soprano Bass Peasants, peasants, musicians and servants. HISTORY OF CREATION The plot is … Read more
Once the economy of one famous church, called Theophilus, was famous in the region for its prosperity, high position and kindness. But life treated him cruelly, he lost everything and fell into disgrace with the cardinal. And then one day Teofil, sitting at home, bitterly recalled with what jealousy he had prayed for his patron … Read more
Venichka Erofeev travels from Moscow to the regional center near Moscow called Petushki. There lives a sweetheart hero, delightful and unique, to which he travels on Fridays, buying a bag of sweets “Cornflower” as a gift. Venichka Erofeev has already begun his wanderings. The day before, he had taken a glass of teeth, and then … Read more
“Vanka Zhukov, a nine-year-old boy, given three months ago to study with the shoemaker Alyakhin, did not go to bed on Christmas Eve.” He wrote a letter to his grandfather Konstantin Makarych. Vanya is an orphan. He thinks about his grandfather, a 65-year-old “skinny and brisk old man with a cheerful face and always drunk … Read more
Wan was a tea-seller, and Tao, nicknamed Iron Monk, helped him. He was stealing from the owner famously. Once he caught Vanya at the count of the stolen money and drove it out. Throughout the city, a former servant was abused by a thief, so no one took the Iron Monk. He was already starving … Read more