Venichka Erofeev travels from Moscow to the regional center near Moscow called Petushki. There lives a sweetheart hero, delightful and unique, to which he travels on Fridays, buying a bag of sweets “Cornflower” as a gift. Venichka Erofeev has already begun his wanderings. The day before, he had taken a glass of teeth, and then … Read more
“Almost all this happened in fact.” This phrase begins a novel, which, as it appears from the author’s warning, “is partly written in a slightly telegraph-schizophrenic style, as they write on the planet Tralfamador, from where the flying saucers appear.” The protagonist of the book, Billy Pilgrim, according to the narrator’s expression, “disconnected from time”, … Read more
Amazing journeys on land and sea, military campaigns and fun adventures of Baron von Munchausen, about which he usually tells for a bottle in the circle of his friends The time of the adventures described in the book of Baron Munchausen – the end of the XVIII century., During the plot the main character is … Read more
N. G. Pomyalovsky Essays of the bursa Huge dirty room of the school. Classes are over, and bursaks play games. Most recently, the “period of violent education” ended, when everyone, regardless of age, had to undergo a full course of science. Now the “law of overgrown age” began to operate: after reaching a certain age, … Read more
The last day before Christmas passed, and a clear starry night came. Through the trumpet of one house a witch on a broom rose and began to collect stars. And the devil at this time stole a month. He did it because he knew that today Chub was invited by a deacon on the kutu, … Read more
All the inhabitants of the village called Yegor Polushkin a poor man. Where the first two letters disappeared, no one remembered. Even Polushkin’s wife, Kharitina, called her husband “a non-human overseas” and “a devil’s poor creature.” Kharitin’s family was from Zaoneezhye, and her insults began from early childhood, when a drunken priest gave her this … Read more
Philippe Eria Family Bussardel The novel is a family chronicle with a sequel. The events described in the novel unfold in Paris in the 19th century. and begin with the fact that in 1815, after serving in the French National Guard, Florent Bussardel, the son of a recently deceased prominent customs official, returns to the … Read more
In the work – two story lines, each of which develops independently. The first action takes place in Moscow during several May days in the 30s. XX century, the action of the second is also in May, but in the city of Yershalaim almost two thousand years ago – at the very beginning of a … Read more
Almost one hundred and thirty years have passed since the Norman Duke William the Conqueror defeated the Anglo-Saxon armies and captured England at the Battle of Hastings. The English people are going through hard times. King Richard the Lionheart did not return from the last crusade, taken prisoner by the treacherous Duke of Austria. The … Read more
AN Ostrovsky Wolves and sheep In the morning at the house of Meropia Davydovna Murzavetskaya, “a girl of about sixty, who has great strength in the province”, assembled craftsmen – she owed them. Suitable Chugunov, a former member of the district court. Murzavets prudish and slanderous, Chugunov leads her affairs and manages the estate of … Read more