Summary Richard Wagner. Valkyrie

VALKYRIE The first day of the tetralogy “Ring of the Nibelung” in three acts R. Wagner’s libretto Characters: Sigmund Hunding Sieglinde, his wife Wotan, the supreme god Frika, his wife Brünnhilde, Valkyrie, his daughter

“Wonderful” Korolenko in brief summary

Morozova is the main character, a political prisoner. In the center of the narrative of this early work of the writer is the story of the escort gendarme Gavrilov about the girl-politician Morozova, whom

Sad detective Astafyev

VP Astafyev Sad detective Forty-two-year-old Leonid Soshnin, a former operative of criminal investigation, returns home from an local publishing house, to an empty apartment, in the worst of spirits. The manuscript of his first

“Before the third cocks” Shukshin in brief summary

Once in a library in the evening they began to talk, the characters of Russian literature about Ivan the Fool argued. “I’m ashamed,” said Poor Liza, “that he is with us.” “I’m also embarrassed

“Mrs. Dalloway” W. Wolfe in summary

The novel takes place in London, in the midst of the English aristocracy, in 1923, and takes only one day. Along with real events, the reader also gets to know the past of the

“Goetz von Berlichingen” Goethe in brief summary

The drama takes place in Germany in the twenties of the 16th century, when the country was fragmented into many independent feudal principalities that were in constant hostility with each other, nominally all of

Summary Nos Nikolay Gogol

NV Gogol the Nose The incident described, according to the narrator, happened in St. Petersburg, on March 25. Barber Ivan Yakovlevich, having eaten in the morning of fresh bread baked by his wife Praskovia

Summary of “Petka at the cottage” Andreeva

In the barber’s shop a cry is heard: “Boy, water!” And then a venomous whisper: “Here, wait!” – for the fact that the boy is not quick enough or even somehow blundered. “In this

“Birth of Kumara” Kalidasy in brief summary

The poem, left, as it is believed, was unfinished and enlarged later The powerful demon of Tarak, who for his ascetic deeds of Brahma at one time bestowed unquenchable power, frightens and humiliates the

Summary of “Notes of a Hunter: Forest and Steppe” by Turgenev

“Hunting with a gun and a dog is beautiful in itself,” says the author of Zapiski, whose love of nature and freedom is fully transmitted to the reader, and talented, authentic pictures purify and
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