On a hot summer day, Yermolay and I returned from the hunt for a cart. Having stopped in the thick undergrowth of bushes, we decided to hunt for grouse. After the first shot, the
On the day of Borisov, the weddings of the boyar throne are calculated by the fruits of his rule: both the suppressed morrow, the completed wars, and the harvests. They marvel at how long
A happy courtesan, or a story of life and all the vicissitudes of Mademoiselle de Belo’s fate, later called the Countess de Vintelselsheim of Germany, she is a person known in the time of
On a cold November evening in 1851, Khadzhi-Murat, the famous naib of Imam Shamil, drives into the uninhabited Chechen aul Mahket. A Chechen Sado receives a guest in his sakle, despite Shamil’s recent order
In the winter forest the wolf talks with a crow, the squirrels play with a hare in the burners. They are seen by the stepdaughter, who came to the forest for brushwood and firewood.
One day, King Charlemagne feasted with his valiant knights. The table was full of food, the guests were cheerful, but suddenly the owner of the feast said that the fun should be postponed: We
DUENJA (ORDER IN THE MONASTERY) Lyrical comic opera in four acts (nine scenes) Libretto by S. Prokofiev Characters: Don Jerome, a nobleman of Seville Tenor Ferdinand Louise } His children Baritone Soprano Duenna at
The childhood of Esther Summerston takes place in Windsor, in the house of her godmother, Miss Barberi. The girl feels lonely and often sentences, addressing her best friend, a ruddy doll: “You know perfectly
Sashka Yermolayev was offended. On Saturday morning, he gathered empty bottles of milk and said to his little daughter: “Masha, will you come with me?” – “Where? The gas shop?” – the girl was
A. A. Block Stranger Street zucchini, vulgar and cheap, but with a claim to romance: huge identical ships are floating on the wallpaper… A light raid of unreality: the master and the sexual are