Leni Pfeiffer, nee Grüten, German. She is forty-eight years old, she is still beautiful – and in her youth was a true beauty: a blonde, with a beautiful stately figure. She does not work, she lives almost in poverty, she may be evicted from the apartment, or rather, from the house that once belonged to … Read more
Once in a library in the evening they began to talk, the characters of Russian literature about Ivan the Fool argued. “I’m ashamed,” said Poor Liza, “that he is with us.” “It’s embarrassing to stand next to him,” Oblomov said. – It stinks of his clothes. “Let him know that he’s clever,” suggested Poor Lisa. … Read more
KF Hebbel Agnes Bernauer The action takes place between 1420 and 1430. The population of the free city of Augsburg looks forward to the knightly tournament, in which the Duke Albrecht of Bavaria himself, son of the ruler of Munich Ernst of Bavaria, participates. Everyone wants to get to this spectacle, they take places in … Read more
A young girl with a sonorous name Apollinary Vikhrova comes after school in Moscow to study. Her mother stayed there, on the Yenge, in the Pashutinsky forestry, but her father was a professor in the capital, a specialist in the forest. Only to see him, Paul does not want: every now and then he whips … Read more
DON CARLOS Opera in five acts (eight scenes) 1 Libretto by J. Meri and C. du Locle in the processing of A. Gislanzoni Characters: Philip II, King of Spain Don Carlos, Spanish Infant Rodrigo, the Marquis de Poza The Grand Inquisitor, The blind ninety-year old man Monk (Emperor Charles V) Elizaveta Valois Princess Eboli Tebaldo, … Read more
Saint-Marie Henri d’Affia, marquis – the organizer of the conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu; historical dates of his life: 1620 – 1642. At the beginning of the novel the young nobleman S.-M. goes from his native province to the court to enter the service of Richelieu, but on the way he witnesses the outrageous arbitrariness and … Read more
The novel is preceded by a letter to the anonymous benefactor “chamberlain and various orders to the knight” in order to draw the reader’s attention to the fact that praise or indignation turns to dust, as well as a person who praises or denigrates this book. The author turns to the reader in verse, urging … Read more
Maxim Gorky The song about the falcon The sea - a huge, lazy sigh by the shore – fell asleep and motionless in the distance, bathed in blue radiance. It merged with the sky, reflecting its clouds. Ugly curved mountains border the sea, hide the moon. Nadir-Ragim-ogly, an old Crimean shepherd, sighs heavily, lying on … Read more
A. Serafimovich The Iron Stream The novel takes place after the revolution of 1917, during the Civil War. A huge flow of people – either a camp of immigrants, or an army – entered the Cossack village. Cossacks are not alone, only women and children. On the mound near the windmill rally. The people shout, … Read more
When a new face appears in the village – this is considered an event. One summer a new home teacher came to the rich estate of the Islaevs. From the very first day of Alexey Nikolaevich, his pupil Kolya Islaev, who was ten years old, fell in love. The teacher made a bow to him, … Read more