Evgenia Grande was considered the most enviable bride in Saumur. Her father, a simple bocar, grew rich in the days of the Revolution, buying up the confiscated church possessions for a pittance-the best vineyards in the Saumur okrug and several farms. At the Consulate, he was elected mayor, and during the time of the Empire … Read more
Avvakum The life of Archpriest Habakkuk himself written by Protopop Habakkuk wrote the life with the blessing of the monk Epiphanius, his spiritual father. A solar eclipse is a sign of God’s wrath. In Russia, the solar eclipse was in 1654, because then the Patriarch Nikon distorted the faith. Fourteen years later, a new eclipse … Read more
The action takes place in 40-50 years. XVIII century. Together with his heroine, the outstanding singer Consuelo, the reader from sunny Venice gets into the gloomy Bohemian forest, goes along the roads of the Czech Republic, Austria and Prussia. Consuelo, the daughter of a gypsy who did not know her father, is naturally endowed with … Read more
One morning, Buddha wandered alone along the shore of a paradise pond. He stopped in thought and suddenly saw everything that was happening on the bottom of the Lotus Pond, reaching to the very depths of the underworld. A lot of sinners were crowding down there. The Buddha’s eyes fell on one of them. His … Read more
August 12, 18 ** ten years old Nikolenka Irtenev wakes up on the third day after her birthday at seven o’clock in the morning. After the morning toilet, the teacher Karl Ivanych leads Nicholas and his brother Volodya to greet the mother who pours tea in the living room, and with her father giving economic … Read more
Agrippina is the widow of Domitius Enobarb of Nero’s father and the second widow of Emperor Claudius. With the help of intrigues and crimes, Nero was elevated to the throne afterwards was killed by his order. A. – one of the most important characters in the tragedy. Moving away from the image of heroes possessing … Read more
Banabhatta (Hindi Ba? Abha?? a or Bana, Hindi Bana; 7th century) is an ancient Indian Sanskrit poet. He was “Asthana Kavi” (court poet) in the court of King Harsavadhana, who reigned from approx. 606 to 647 years in Northern India. The main work of Bana includes the biography of Harshi – Harscharita, one of the … Read more
The soldiers have supper nine kilometers from the front line. They are given double portions of food and tobacco, since after the last attack, eighty people returned from the battlefield instead of one hundred and fifty. For the first time the queue before “pishcheetom” lined up at lunch, after a night rest. It was the … Read more
A. Shtifter Notes of my great-grandfather The hero, describing the old house that belonged to his great-grandfather, the village doctor, recalls: “The old utensils surrounded us with an indelible chronicle, and we children got used to it, like an old book with pictures, the key to which was possessed only grandfather, he, the only living … Read more
“On the day of the thirtieth anniversary of his personal life, Voshchev was given a calculation from a small mechanical factory where he was earning funds for his existence.” He wrote in a dismissal document that he was being eliminated from production due to the growth of weakness in him and thoughtfulness among the general … Read more