VA Sollogub Tarantas The meeting of the Kazan landowner Vasily Ivanovich, burly, thorough and elderly, with Ivan Vasilievich, thin, dapper, barely arrived from abroad – this meeting, which happened on Tverskoy Boulevard, was very fruitful. Vasily Ivanovich, going back to his Kazan estate, offers Ivan Vasilievich to take him to his father’s village, which for … Read more
UZEYIR ABDUL HUSSEIN-OGLA HAJIBEKOV 1885-1948 Gadzhibekov is an outstanding Azerbaijani composer, the founder of the national music school, a major music scholar and public figure. Showing a special interest in the theater, he laid the foundations of the Azerbaijani opera. Uzeir Abdul Huseyn-oglu Hajibeyov was born on September 17 (new) in 1885 in the village … Read more
Leningrad. Evening the first. In the room sit Zoya and Ilyin. Zoya is a saleswoman in a deli. Ilyin in Leningrad on vacation, he lives somewhere in the North. The vacation ends – it’s time to leave. He tells Zoya that in the next house, above the pharmacy, his first love, the beauty, whose girlfriend … Read more
W. M. Thackeray History of Henry Esmond Events take place in England at the very beginning of the 18th century, during the reign of Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart dynasty. Anna does not have children, and therefore after her death, the throne must go to representatives of another dynasty – Hanover. However, the … Read more
OTHELLO Opera in four acts Libretto by A. Boito Characters: Othello, the Moor, the commander of the Venetian The Republic Iago, the standard-bearer Cassio, Captain Roderigo, the Venetian patrician Ludovico, the ambassador of the Venetian Republic Montano, the predecessor of Othello in Management of the island of Cyprus Herald Desdemona, the wife of Othello Emilia, … Read more
80-ies. XIX century. A festive table in the office of the rich Norwegian businessman Verle. Among the guests – the son of merchant Greghers and old school friend Gregers Yalmar Ekdal, summoned from the plant in the Mountain Valley. Friends have not seen each other for fifteen years. During this time, Yalmar married, he had … Read more
Ivan Petrovich Berestov and Grigory Ivanovich Muromtsev, the landlords, do not get along with each other. Berestov the widower, succeeds, we love neighbors, has Alexey’s son. Muromsky “a real Russian gentleman,” a widower, an angloman, farming is inept, educating his daughter Lisa. Alexei Berestov wants to make a military career, his father does not agree, … Read more
The meeting of the Kazan landlord Vasily Ivanovich, burly, thorough and elderly, with Ivan Vasilievich, thin, dapper, barely arrived from abroad – this meeting, which happened on Tverskoy Boulevard, was very fruitful. Vasily Ivanovich, going back to his Kazan estate, offers Ivan Vasilievich to take him to his father’s village, which for Ivan Vasilievich, who … Read more
Andrey White Kotik Letaev Here, on a steep-cutting line, I throw long and dumb gazes into the past. The first moments of consciousness on the threshold of my third birthday – they rise to me. I am thirty five years old. I’m standing in the mountains, amidst the chaos of cliffhog rocks, bulky blocks, gleams … Read more
In 1964, the screens of the USSR released the film “Girl and Echo.” You can now look at it using sources from the Internet. Anyone who wants to learn the plot of the movie to decide whether to watch it can read the summary of “Echo”. Nagibin, known more as a writer who created a … Read more