AS Pushkin Eugene Onegin A young nobleman Eugene Onegin travels from St. Petersburg to the village to his dying rich uncle, annoyed at the impending boredom. Twenty-four-year-old Eugene received as a child a home education, he was brought up by French tutors. He spoke French fluently, easily danced, knew Latin a little, he knew how … Read more
1942 Wesley Jackson, eighteen-year-old resident of San Francisco, drafted into the army. He loves the song “Valencia”, reads a lot and reflects. His parents had long since separated. Mom and his younger brother Virgil went to their relatives, and where now the father, Wesley does not know. Wesley writes a letter to Mrs Fawkes, a … Read more
VE Maksimov Seven Days of Creation A novel dedicated to the history of the Lashkovs’ working class. The book consists of seven parts, each of which is called by the days of the week and tells about one of the Lashkovs. The action is, apparently, in the 60’s, but the memories cover episodes from previous … Read more
This happened in those early times when steppe peoples often attacked Kievan Rus. Some of them, Pechenegs, once came to Belgorod, but they could not seize the attack. They then surrounded the city and took a siege. The state of siege continued for a long time. There was a famine. Weakened people came to such … Read more
Albert Camus Foreign Maersot, a small French official, resident of the Algerian suburb, receives news of the death of his mother. Three years ago, being unable to support her on his modest salary, he placed her in an almshouse. After receiving a two-week vacation, Merso on the same day goes to the funeral. After a … Read more
VV Nabokov Camera Obscura 1928 Berlin. Bruno Krechmar, a successful connoisseur of painting, who has his wife Annelise and daughter Irma, and who has never betrayed his wife for nine years of marriage, is suddenly carried away by a stranger who meets in the cinema. She works there as a chaplain. Her name is Magda … Read more
Ales Adamovich Punishers The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War, in 1942, in the territory of occupied Belarus. “Punishers” is a bloody chronicle of the destruction by the battalion of Hitler’s punitive Dirlewanger of seven peaceful villages. The chapters are appropriately named: “First Settlement”, “Second Village”, “Between the Third and Fourth Villages”, etc. … Read more
A young man of twenty-six is a petty official who has lived for eight years in Petersburg in the 1840s, in one of the lucrative houses along the Catherine Canal, in a room with cobwebs and smoky walls. After the service, his favorite pastime is walking around the city. He notices passers-by and at home, … Read more
The action takes place on the Ryazan land in the period from the spring of 1917 to 1923. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the author-poet Sergei Yesenin; The image of “epic” events is transmitted through the attitude of the lyric hero towards them. In the first chapter we are talking about the poet’s … Read more
Falling in love with the royal daughter, swineherd Henry for a whole month persuades her to come to the lawn, to see how the pigs graze. Princess Henrietta agrees to come only when she finds out that Heinrich has a magical bowler that can sing, play musical instruments and guess what is being cooked in … Read more