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 chest, also curves, his cheerful eyes are tightly covered with black circles of copper coins, a kind face is dark and … Read more
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 old man Mikion has no native children. His brother Demei has two sons. One of them, Aeschines, adopted Mikion. He … Read more
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 been considered to be small in the family” and therefore calls her Maney and Manyusey, and when the circus she visited … Read more
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 flying saucers, he was invited to a special institute as a head of department, but he preferred the freedom of an … Read more
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 in Berlin, built and furnished to his own taste. The work attracts him a little, he appreciates his worthy, informative leisure … Read more
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 – with some affectation – a Russian soldier. After observing him, Schavinsky noticed some ambiguity in his appearance. At first glance, … Read more
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 another mistress in the house – to help her sister. Brother’s wife began to complain about her sister-in-law: she was a … Read more
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, and finds shackles on … Read more
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 his journey, where he told himself that it was time to return to the fatherland, and sat in London on a … Read more
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 of Timiryazev. His first literary work was a sketch from the folk life “At the Mill”, then there were stories and … Read more