The story “Ryzhik” belongs to the pen of the writer Alexei Svirsky. The volume of the product is large, so it will take a long time to read it. To save precious minutes and hours, you can see the product in less than 10 minutes. To do this, just read the summary. Svirsky “Ryzhik” will … Read more
Stendal Vanina Vanini Vanina Vanini is a Roman aristocrat, a “black-haired girl with a fiery gaze,” feeding contempt for the timid and insignificant soul of the young people of her circle, but selflessly falling in love with the young Carbonari, whose courage and willingness to perish for liberating Italy from the Austrians meet the passion … Read more
L. N. Tolstoy The Living Corpse Elisaveta Andreevna Protasova decides to part with her husband, Fedor Vasilyevich, whose way of life becomes intolerable for her: Fedya Protasov drinks, squanders his and his wife’s fortune. Lisa’s mother approves of her decision, Sasha’s sister – categorically against parting with such an amazing, though with weakness, person, like … Read more
In one of the cold winters the poor peasant went to the woods for firewood. Having typed a huge bundle, on the way to his hut, all saturated with smoke, the man was tired, so he decided to rest. Seated on the harvested wood, the peasant began to complain aloud about his unlucky life. In … Read more
K. Marlo Maltese Jew In the prologue, Machiavelli says that everyone considers him dead, but his soul flew across the Alps and he arrived in Britain to his friends. He considers religion a toy and asserts that there is no sin, but there is only stupidity, that power is affirmed only by force, and the … Read more
A. Pushkin Caucasian captive In the village, where in the evening on the thresholds sit Circassians and talk about their battles, there is a rider dragging on the lasso of the Russian prisoner, who seems to have died from wounds. But at noon the prisoner comes to himself, remembers that with him, where he is, … Read more
Carlo Gozzi The Green Bird Since the well-known events that accompanied the marriage of Tartaglia to the daughter of the King of the Antipodes, Ninetta, who appeared from the oranges, many years have passed. A lot of things happened in Monterotondo over the years. Smuraldine and Brighella, once burned, resurrected from the ashes: he is … Read more
Apartment Sudakov in Moscow. Its owner – Stepan Alekseevich – serves somewhere in the sphere of work with foreigners. His son Proov finishes school. Father wants him to go to MGIMO. Daughter Iskra works in the newspaper in the department of letters. She’s twenty-eight years old. She is married. Iskra’s husband Georgiy Samsonovich Yesyunin works … Read more
March was the month of nine hundred and thirty-one. In the village of Steep Luki, the windows of the collective farm office were burning late, the board was sitting, then the peasants simply converged and judged without end, they talked about their affairs. Spring was approaching. Sowing. Just now the collective-farm barn was filled in … Read more
VI Belov Carpentry stories March 1966; Thirty-four-year-old engineer Konstantin Platonovich Zorin remembers how he, a native of the village, was humiliated by city bureaucrats and how he once hated everything rural. And now he is pulling back into his native village, so he came here on leave for twenty-four days, and he wants to heat … Read more