The Russian people are the guardian of the most amazing treasure, which is called folklore. There are puzzles, nursery rhymes, proverbs, sayings and, most importantly, fairy tales. Russian folk tales – “Kroshechka-Khavroshechka”, “Geese-swans”, “Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf” (this is not the whole list) are known to every child and adult. They are built … Read more
Sorochinsky Fair The action takes place at the fair in the town of Sorochinets. The inhabitants of the surrounding villages gather in it. At the fair come Solopii Cherevik with his daughter Paraska. At the fair, a couple is wedded to her, Cherevik gives consent, but his wife opposed such a hasty decision. At the … Read more
Roman Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” was written in 1863-1869. In order to get acquainted with the novel’s main storylines, we invite students of the 10th grade and everyone who is interested in Russian literature to read War and Peace in a brief summary of chapters and parts online. “War and Peace” refers to the … Read more
The action takes place in revolutionary Petrograd in the winter of 1917-18. Petrograd, however, acts as a concrete city, and as the center of the universe, the place of cosmic cataclysms. The first of the twelve chapters of the poem describes the cold, snow-covered streets of Petrograd, tormented by wars and revolutions. People make their … Read more
MN Zagoskin Roslavlev, or Russian in 1812 At the end of May 1812 in St. Petersburg, on Nevsky Boulevard met two friends – Vladimir Roslavlev and Alexander Zaretsky. Roslavlev mope, and cheerful Zaretsky worried about his friend’s condition. Roslavlev is in love with Polina Lidin. But not love is the cause of melancholy: at the … Read more
Franz Kafka Transformation The incident that happened with Gregor Zamzoi is described, perhaps, in one phrase of the story. One morning, waking up after a restless sleep, the hero suddenly discovered that he had turned into a huge terrible insect… Actually, after this incredible transformation, nothing special is happening anymore. Behavior of actors is prosaic, … Read more
The action takes place in Colombia in 1956, when there was a fierce struggle between political groups in the country and a climate of violence and terror prevailed. On the outskirts of a small provincial town in a house covered with palm leaves, with peeling walls, the old married couple who had fallen into poverty … Read more
The play takes place on the squalid outskirts of New Orleans. This place itself was lost. It was to this city that a tram named “Desire” arrived. He brought Blanche Dubois, a girl who experienced a lot of failures. Here she tries to find peace, or get a temporary shelter, where you can rest without … Read more
After the death of Jack in his drafts continued to find previously unpublished or not included in the collections. So, for example, in 1922 the collection of short stories of different years “The Dutch Valor”, which is of interest to the reader, was published. Now it is for certain that Jack London began writing at … Read more
New York, Brooklyn, 1947. The novice writer Stingo, on whose behalf the narrative is based, set out to conquer literary America. However, while he has nothing to boast about. The work of a reviewer in a fairly large publishing house proves to be short, it is not possible to make useful literary acquaintances, and the … Read more