The novel takes place in St. Petersburg and Pavlovsk late 1867 – early 1868. Prince Leo Nikolayevich Myshkin arrives in St. Petersburg from Switzerland. He is twenty-six years old, he is the last of the noble noble family, he was orphaned early, as a child he fell ill with a severe nervous illness and was … Read more
Having received an invitation from the well-known Pushkinist Schweitzer to come to Mikhailovskoye, the Leningrad restorer Nikolai Vermel put aside his urgent work on the frescoes of the Trinity Church in Novgorod and, along with his partner and pupil Pakhomov, went to Schweitzer, who rummaged in the Mikhailovsky Museum in the hope of finding unknown … Read more
IA Bunin Countryside Russia. Late XIX – early XX century. The Brothers of Color, Tikhon and Kuzma, were born in a small village of Durnovka. In their youth they were engaged in small trade, then they quarreled, and their ways parted. Kuzma went to work for hire. Tikhon took off his inn, opened a tavern … Read more
Lewis Carroll Alice in the Looking Glass In this book, Lewis Carroll, a great fan of puzzles, paradoxes and “flip-flops”, the author of the already famous “Alice in Wonderland”, sends her favorite heroine girl Alice to another fairy country – Through the Looking Glass. As well as last time, Alice embarks on adventures thanks to … Read more
Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The middle of the last century, the town with the pretentious name of St. Petersburg… America, where no factories, no railroads, no class struggle, but instead chickens wander among the houses with kitchen gardens… A pious province where Aunt Polly, alone raising Tom Sawyer, does not take up … Read more
In 1918-1920, Bunin recorded in the form of diary notes his immediate observations and impressions of events in Russia at that time. Here are some fragments: Moscow, 1918 1st of January. This damned year is over. But what’s next? Maybe something even more terrible. Even probably so… February 5th. Since February 1, they ordered us … Read more
After an unsuccessful testing of the steam engine, two cronies Mishka and Kolya decide to make an incubator to remove the chickens. From a pile of old junk they master the apparatus and with the help of an electric lamp set the desired temperature. Taking the eggs in the village, which the chicken just took, … Read more
J. Casanova The Story of My Life The illustrious Venetian adventurer, whose name became a household name, was a brilliant narrator; gradually he began to write down his stories; these records grew into memoirs. Like any true adventurer, Kazakova spends life on the road. Arriving one day in Constantinople, he meets the venerable philosopher Yusuf … Read more
Lieutenant Sergei Kostrov in the autumn of 1941 falls into captivity. Having detained the prisoners for several days in the cellars of the destroyed Klin glass factory, they, built on five people in a row, are escorted along the Volokolamsk highway. From time to time shots are heard – it’s the Germans who shoot the … Read more
Jean-Paul Sartre Flies In the main square of Argos is a flakes-stained statue of Jupiter, Waving off large fatty flies, enters Orestes. Screams scream from the palace. Fifteen years ago, Clytemnestra, the mother of Orestes and Elektra, and her lover Egiof killed their father Agamemnon. Aegisthus wanted to kill Orestes, but the boy managed to … Read more