The novel takes place in January 1967, Friday night from 18.30 to 1.30 at the International Airport. Lincoln in Illinois. Three days and three nights over the Mid-West states, the strongest storm is rampant, all airfield services are working with extreme strain. About a hundred planes of two dozen airlines did not rise on time … Read more
At the very end of August the cadet adolescence of Alexei Alexandrov was over. Now he will study in the Third Junker name of Emperor Alexander II infantry school. In the morning he paid a visit to Sinelnikov, but alone with Yulenka he managed to stay no more than a minute, during which, instead of … Read more
The dacha season is over, and Vasily Petrovich Bachey with his sons Petya and Pavlik was returning to Odessa. Petya for the last time looked around the endless marine space, glowing with a gentle blue glow. The following lines came to mind: “The lonely sail grows white / In the fog of the blue sea…” … Read more
VG Korolenko Blind musician In the Southwest of Ukraine, in the family of the rich country landowners Popelskikh, a blind boy is born. At first no one notices his blindness, only his mother guesses this by the strange expression of Petrusya’s face. Doctors confirm the terrible guess. Father Peter – a good-natured man, but rather … Read more
Ivlin Vo Loved One unbearably hot evening in the home of Francis Hinzli in Hollywood comes Sir Ambrose Abercrombie and finds the host, screenwriter “Megapoliten Studios” company, together with his young friend and poet Denisom Barlou for a glass of whiskey. All three Englishmen, and the British, according to Sir Eberkombi, here in America, should … Read more
Events take place many years ago in a distant African country. Boas tirelessly hunt for rabbits, and monkeys and elephants observe neutrality. Despite the fact that rabbits usually run very fast, at the sight of boas they seem to fall into a stupor. Boas do not choke rabbits, but as if hypnotize them. Once a … Read more
O. de Balzac Eugenia Grande Evgenia Grande was considered the most enviable bride in Saumur. Her father, a simple bocar, grew rich in the days of the Revolution, buying up the confiscated church possessions for a pittance-the best vineyards in the Saumur okrug and several farms. At the Consulate, he was elected mayor, and during … Read more
On the day when it becomes known that the Russian fleet was defeated by the Japanese, Captain Vasily Alexandrovich Rybnikov received a mysterious telegram from Irkutsk. He moved to a dingy station hotel and immediately begins to dash around all the places in St. Petersburg. Everywhere: in the streets, in restaurants, in theaters, in wagon … Read more
The merchant’s daughter in marriage, Olympia Samsonovna Bolshova, sits alone at the window with a book and, arguing “what a pleasant experience these dances”, begins to waltz: she has not danced for a year and a half and is afraid, if anything, to “get embarrassed.” Dancing badly. The mother, Agrafena Kondratyevna, enters: “No light dawn, … Read more
GI Gazdanov Evening with Claire France, late 20-ies. our century. The hero of the novel is a young Russian emigre, the narrative is conducted on his behalf. He’s in love with Claire. Claire is a pure Frenchwoman, she teases the admirer, then he allows him to hope for his favor. She is sick, and the … Read more