Maxim Gorky Childhood Narration on behalf of the protagonist I Father (now dressed “in white and unusually long, fingers of his bare feet strangely stretched out, fingers of tender hands, quietly laid on his
Eternal theme: late in the evening the father in anxiety awaits the house of a detained son somewhere and mutters to himself that there is no greater unrest than the excitement of the parents…
The teacher of Russian language and literature in a small provincial town Sergey Vasilievich Nikitin is in love with the daughter of a local landowner Masha Shelestova, eighteen years old, who “has not yet
LS Petrushevskaya Your Circle A friendly company for many years gathered on Fridays at Marisha and Serge. The master of the house, Serge, talent and general pride, computed the principle of the flight of
L. Feuchtwanger Family Opperman In November 1932 Gustav Opperman turns fifty. He is the senior owner of a furniture manufacturing company, owner of a solid current account in a bank and a beautiful mansion
AI Kuprin Staff-captain Rybnikov Shchavinsky, employee of a large Petersburg newspaper, met Rybnikov in the company of well-known St. Petersburg reporters. The miserable and miserable staff captain spoke, thundering a mediocre command and extolling
Old peasants, husband and wife, died. Before his death, his mother punished his son in all things to obey his older sister. At the request of his sister, his brother married, that there was
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 England to Russia A hero, a young man, talks about his travels through foreign lands. We do not know his name or age. We only know that England was the extreme limit of
IS Shmelev – a talented Russian writer of the XX century. Hobbies Shmelev were diverse. In addition to studying at the Faculty of Law of Moscow University, he was interested in the botanical discoveries