Apartment Sudakov in Moscow. Its owner – Stepan Alekseevich – serves somewhere in the sphere of work with foreigners. His son Proov finishes school. Father wants him to go to MGIMO. Daughter Iskra works in the newspaper in the department of letters. She’s twenty-eight years old. She is married. Iskra’s husband George (Egor) Samsonovich Yesyunin … Read more
AN Tolstoy The Road to Calvary The first book. The Sisters Beginning in 1914, St. Petersburg, “tormented by sleepless nights, deafening his longing for wine, gold, bezlyuboy love, tearing and powerless sensual sounds of tango – the death hymn lived as if waiting for a fateful and terrible day.” A young, clean girl, Daria Dmitrievna … Read more
V. Alfieri Brutus Second In Rome, in the temple of Accord, Caesar delivers a speech. He fought a lot and finally returned to Rome. Rome is mighty, it inspires fear of all nations. For the greater glory of Rome, it remains only to subdue the Parthians and take revenge on them for the victory over … Read more
“The Tale of Sonechka” tells about the most romantic period in the biography of Marina Tsvetaeva – about her Moscow life in 1919-20. in Borisoglebsky Lane. This time of uncertainty, poverty, persecution. At the same time, this is the time of the great crisis, in which there is something romantic and great, and behind the … Read more
Every act here has its own subtitle: “Games and fun”, “Walpurgis Night”, “Exorcism of the Devil.” Forty-six-year-old George, Ph. D., a teacher at a college in New England, and his wife, Martha, return home late at night after receiving the father of Martha, the rector of the same college. Already on the threshold they begin … Read more
To Sherlock Holmes, Lord Saint-Simon calls for help. A year ago, traveling around the USA, the lord met a charming girl, Miss Hetty Doran, the daughter of the richest gold owner on the entire Pacific coast and a violent character. The girl came to London and they got engaged. Before the wedding, Hetty was in … Read more
V. Mayakovsky Man On Mayakovsky’s head, the palm of the sun is the priest of the world, the surrenderer of all sins. The earth says to him: “Now let go of you!” Let the stupid historians, who were taught by contemporaries, write that the poet lived a boring and uninteresting life. Let him know that … Read more
G. H. Andersen Ognivo Returning home, the soldier met a sorceress. So sent him to a hollow where in 3 rooms of 3 chests guarded by terrible dogs, he could collect copper coins, silver and gold, having first planted dogs on the old woman’s checkered apron. For this she asked me to bring her a … Read more
The action takes place in a large fictional city on the Volga – Bryakhimov. An open area near the coffee shop on the Volga boulevard. Knurov and Vozhevatov, having ordered champagne in a tea appliance, begin to discuss the news: a well-known beauty in a society, Larissa Ogudalova, a well-known beauty, marries a poor official … Read more
“The Tale of the Barrel” is one of the first pamphlets written by Jonathan Swift, however, unlike the “Battle of Books” that was created around the same time, where it was mainly about subjects of literary character, “Tale of the Barrel”, with its relatively small volume, contains, as it seems, practically all conceivable aspects and … Read more