In the preface to his book, the author confesses that he wrote it, following “the example of the excellent Florentine poet, Messer Giovanni Boccaccio.” “I, the Florentine Franco Sacchetti, an ignorant and rude man, asked himself to write a book for you, collecting in it stories about all those unusual cases that, in the old … Read more
“The times of Miloradovichs, Davydovs, Pushkins” … In the provincial city of K. there are congresses of landowners and gentry elections. In the best hotel of the city comes a young hussar officer, Count Turbin. There are no free rooms; “retired cavalryman” Zavalshevsky proposes the graph to stay in his room, lends Turbine money. Actually, … Read more
“In accordance with the law, Cincinnatus C. declared a death sentence in a whisper.” Unforgivable Cincinnatus wine – in its “impenetrability”, “opacity” for the rest, to the horror of similar, “transparent friend for friend of souls.” This feature is inherent in Cincinnatus since childhood, but for some time he manages to hide his difference from … Read more
Of course, even the most “richest” collection of books that only exists in the world, the most valuable for most children born in the Soviet and Russian epochs, is the “immortal” work about Baby and Carlson, once created by a truly talented writer from Sweden Astrid Lindgren. In this case, all agree that the question: … Read more
ME Saltykov-Shchedrin Wild landowner In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a landowner, “and everything he had was enough: peasants, and bread, and livestock, and lands, and gardens.” He was stupid, read the newspaper “News” and the body was soft, white and friable. “ He does not like one thing, and, behold, … Read more
In the Moscow house of Oblonsky, where “everything was mixed up” at the end of the winter of 1873, the host’s sister, Anna Arkadyevna Karenina, was waiting. The reason for the family frustration was that Prince Stepan Arkadievich Oblonsky convicted his wife of treason with a governess. Thirty-four-year-old Steve Oblonsky sincerely feels sorry for Dolly’s … Read more
ABRAMOV, FEDOR ALEXANDROVICH (1920-1983), Russian writer. He was born on February 29, 1920 in with. Verkola Arkhangelsk region in the peasant family. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, a student at the Philological Faculty of Leningrad University went to the front. After the war he completed higher education, became a candidate of science, head … Read more
On a sunny summer day, the talented painter Basil Hallward takes in his workshop an old friend of Lord Henry Wotton – the epicurean esthete, the “Prince of Paradox”, by definition of one of the characters. In the latter one easily recognizes the features of Oscar Wilde, familiar to contemporaries, to whom the author of … Read more
Salbiarg, daughter of Kari, becomes the wife of Ulva, nicknamed Kveldulv. They have two sons – Thorolf and Grim. Harald, nicknamed Shaggy defeated the neighboring konungs and became the sole king of Norway. At his insistence, Kveldulv sends his son Thorolf to him; Kveldulv himself believes that Harald will do a lot of evil to … Read more
JOAKKINO ROSSINI 1792-1868 Rossini – an outstanding Italian composer of the last century, whose work was marked by the flowering of national opera. He was able to breathe new life into the traditional for Italy kinds of opera – comic (buffa) and “serious” (seria). Especially brightly Rossini’s talent unfolded in the field of opera buffa. … Read more