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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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