IS Turgenev On the eve On one of the hottest days of 1853, two young people were lying on the shores of the Moscow River in the shade of a blooming linden tree. The twenty-three-year-old Andrei Petrovich Bersenev has just graduated as the third candidate of the Moscow University, and an academic career awaited him. … Read more
It all started with Saratov, where the troupe came on tour and where the actors were accommodated in a bad hotel. It’s hot, director Sergei Leonidovich flew to Moscow, leaving instead of assistant Smurny. This Smurny long ago laid eyes on Lyalya, one of the actresses of the theater, but when she avenged her for … Read more
Torquato Tasso Liberated Jerusalem Lord Almighty from his heavenly throne drew an all-seeing gaze upon Syria, where the camp was a crusading host. For the sixth year, the warriors of Christ have fought in the East, many cities and kingdoms submitted to it, but the Holy City of Jerusalem was still a stronghold of the … Read more
It is always difficult to talk about any one poem in the work of any poet: he expressed himself in everything he wrote. But even more difficult to talk about a poet who was going to become a musician. Being influenced by the music of A. N. Scriabin, Boris Pasternak spent six years seriously engaged … Read more
Lope de Vega Dance teacher Aldemaro, a young nobleman from a noble but impoverished family, comes to the city of Tudela with his cousin Ricaredo for the wedding of Feliciana, the daughter of one of the most famous and wealthy townspeople, and immediately falls in love with the bride’s sister, Florela. The surprise that struck … Read more
The great Alexander Bussar d’Esparvieu, vice-president of the state council under the July government, left his heirs a three-story mansion and a rich library. René d’Esparvieux, a worthy grandson of the famous grandfather, added the precious collection to the extent of his strength. In 1895, he appointed Julien Sariette as the curator of the library, … Read more
Chapters I-LIX Frank Algernon Cowperwood has been attracted to the world of finance since childhood. At the age of 14 he turns the first commercial adventure – he buys and resells the soap. Already in adolescence, he is interested in exceptionally beautiful girls. At the age of seventeen, Cowperwood leaves school and begins to work. … Read more
In Rome, in the temple of Accord, Caesar delivers a speech. He fought a lot and finally returned to Rome. Rome is mighty, it inspires fear of all nations. For the greater glory of Rome, it remains only to subdue the Parthians and take revenge on them for the victory over Crassus. Defeat in the … Read more
About forty years ago, in St. Petersburg on Vasilevsky Island, there lived a male housekeeper. Among the thirty or forty children who studied in that boarding house, there was one boy named Alesha, who then was no more than 9 or 10 years old. His parents, who lived far from St. Petersburg, two years before, … Read more
V. Mayakovsky Klop The play takes place in Tambov: the first three paintings – in 1929, the remaining six paintings – in 1979. Former worker, former party member Ivan Prisypkin, who renamed himself for euphony in Pierre Skripkin, is going to marry Elzevir Davidovna Renaissance – a hairdresser’s daughter, a cashier of a hairdresser and … Read more