There lived a father with three daughters, his mother died. The youngest was called Mariushka and she was a needlewoman and did all the housework. Among all the daughters she was the most beautiful and hardworking. My father often went to the market and asked his daughters what gifts they should bring. Senior and middle-aged … Read more
The narrator yearns for times when “Russians were Russian”, and Moscow beauties wore sarafans, and did not flaunt themselves in Gallo-Saxon dresses. To resurrect these glorious times, the narrator decided to retell the story he had heard from his grandmother’s grandmother. Once upon a time in Moscow a rich boyar, Matvei Andreev, lived in Moscow, … Read more
The monument of ancient Russian literature of the late 12th century describes the march of the Novgorod-Severus Prince Igor to the Polovtsians and recalls ancient princely feuds, campaigns and successful battles. “Word” begins with an introduction – an appeal to the great singer of antiquity Boyan. Beat Boyan, when he started the song, spread his … Read more
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 of diamond peaks. The … Read more
In the center of the unfinished play is the image of the ancient Greek thinker, statesman, poet, healer Empedocles, who lived in 483-423. BC. e. The action takes place in the homeland of the philosopher – in the town of Agrigente in Sicily. Vestal Pantea secretly leads to the house of Empedocles his guest Ray, … Read more
XVI century for Russia has become the age of the rise of Moscow. Ivan Kalita’s grandson, Prince Dmitry Ivanovich of Moscow, despite his youth, managed to put himself in such a position that very few people in Russia decided to stand up to him across the road. In most of the Russian lands, he was … Read more
In the introduction, the author remembers the musician Navadagu, who once sang a song about Hiawatha in ancient times: About his birth wondrous, About his great life: How fasted and prayed, How did Hiawatha work, So that his people were happy, So that he would go to good and righteousness. The supreme deity of the … Read more
The play takes place in the USSR in 1930. The inventor of Eccentrics is going to include the time machine he designed. He explains the importance of this invention to his friend Bicyclebikin: you can stop a second of happiness and enjoy a month, you can “twist the stretched long years of grief.” Bicyclebikin suggests … Read more
The novel takes place in the winter of 1918-19 in a certain City, in which Kiev is clearly guessed. The city is occupied by German occupation forces, the hetman of “All Ukraine” is in power. However, from day to day the city of Petliura can enter the city – the battles are already twelve kilometers … Read more
The action takes place in Moscow, in the first decade of the reforms of Alexander II. The first act of the play is in the apartment where Yegor Dmitrievich Glumov, a young man, lives with his widow mother. In it, according to the author’s remark, is a clean, well-furnished room. The room is entered, continuing … Read more