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 Tenor Bass Soprano Bass Mezzo soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Mezzo soprano Mezzo soprano Soprano Mezzo soprano Mezzo soprano Mezzo soprano Valkyrie: … Read more
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 he accompanied to exile. She seemed to the narrator a child: “hair is fair-haired, in one braid collected, on the cheeks … Read more
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 book, “The Life of the Most Expensive,” after five years of waiting has finally been accepted for production, but this news … Read more
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 to stand next to him,” Oblomov said, “he stinks of his clothes.” “Let him get the information that he’s clever,” suggested … Read more
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 heroes, thanks to the “stream of consciousness”. Clarissa Dalloway, a fifty-year-old socialite, the wife of Richard Dalloway, a member of parliament, … Read more
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 them were part of the so-called Holy Roman Empire. It was a time of stormy peasant unrest marking the beginning of … Read more
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 Osipovna, finds in it a nose. Puzzled by this unattainable incident, having recognized the nose of the collegiate assessor Kovalev, he … Read more
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 barber shop, saturated with the boring smell of cheap perfume, full of annoying flies and dirt, the visitor was undemanding: porters, … Read more
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 heavenly gods, so that even their king Indra is forced to pay tribute to him. The gods pray to Brahma for … Read more
“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 inspire the soul. Here the reader, along with the hunter, leaves in the spring until dawn. “You go out on the … Read more