Part 1. In the rear Svejk is a former soldier who left the service a few years ago because of his idiocy. Now Švejk lives in Prague, trades with the sale of dogs and, in addition to idiocy, suffers from rheumatism. The novel begins in June 1914, after the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand. This … Read more
Pyotr Alekseevich Marakulin colleagues of his fun and carelessness infected. Sam – a narrow-chested, mustache with a thread, about thirty years old, but he felt almost twelve years old. Marakulin was famous for his handwriting, the reports showed the letter after the letter: he scribbled exactly as if he were beading down, and more than … Read more
PI Melnikov In the woods The middle of the XIX century. Privolny, rich in forests and crafts people – the upper Zavolzhie. They live here in labor and prosperity, confessing the old faith. There are quite a few peasants who have escaped to the merchants, that they are called thousandths. One of such rich-thousand-captains Patap … Read more
Germany after the First World War. Economic crisis. The ruined fates of people and their souls. As one of the heroes of the novel says, “we live in an era of despair.” Three school and then front-line comrades – Robert Lockman, Gottfried Lenz, Otto Kester – work in a car repair shop. Robert was thirty. … Read more
Stupidity says: let the gross mortals talk about her as they please, she dares to assert that her divine presence, only one, cheers the gods and people. And therefore now the laudable word Nonsense will be spoken. Who, if not Nonsense, should become a trumpeter of his own glory? After all, lazy and ungrateful mortals, … Read more
Bayyndyr Khan, for a long time established among Oguzes, organized a feast for the Beks. He ordered white tents for those who have sons, red for those who do not have sons, but have a daughter, and black tents for childless beks. In order to humiliate the latter more, he ordered them to serve them … Read more
A. Rhodesian Argonautics In Greece, there were many myths about the exploits of individual heroes, but only four – about such exploits, to which heroes from different parts of the country united. The last was the Trojan War; penultimate – the campaign of the Seven against Thebes; before this – Kalidon’s hunt for a giant … Read more
The main events described in the saga are considered historically reliable, they date back to 962-978; Visy attributed to Gisli, probably composed much later. Thorbjorn marries the Torah, and they have children: the daughter of Tordis, the eldest son of Torkel and the middle Gisli. Nearby lives a man named Bard, who wants to get … Read more
DS Merezhkovsky Christ and Antichrist I. Death of the Gods (Julian the Apostate) (1896) Cappadocia. The Roman tribune condemned wanted to curry favor with his boss. To do this, he is going to kill two children – cousins of the current Constantinople emperor Constantius. Constantius is the son of Constantine the Great, who began his … Read more
Characters. Mikhailo Ivanovich Moshkin, 50 years old. lively, busy, good-natured. Pyotr Ilyich Vilitsky, 23 years old. indecisive, weak, self-interested man. Rodion Karlovich von Funk, 29 years old. Cold, dry creature. Philip Yegorovich Shpundik, landowner of 45 years. with claims of education. Marya Vasilievna Belova, an orphan who lives near Moshkin, is 19 years old. Ekaterina … Read more