Sixty Candles
V. F. Tendryakov Sixty candles Nikolai Stepanovich Echevin celebrates his sixtieth birthday. He worked as a teacher for forty years, and his anniversary was an event for the whole city of Karasin: his portrait
Summary By right of memory
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In 1918 Vladimir brought his beloved Olga a bouquet of asters. At this time, they give their loved ones mainly flour and millet, and bags, like corpses, lie under beds of Karelian birch. Tinting
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The play opens with a scene in the salon of the illustrious intriguer Lady Sniruel, who discusses with her confidant Snake the latest achievements in the field of aristocratic wiles. These achievements are measured
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Summary Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein. Daemon
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Summary “White cloud of Genghis Khan”
Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov is a modern classic writer, an internationally recognized artist of the word. A master who knows how to interest, even fascinate the reader with original legends and stories, vivid metaphors and
Summary “The Enchanted Wanderer” Leskov
On the way to Valaam on the Ladoga Lake there are several travelers. One of them, dressed in a novice cassock and in the form of a “typical hero”, says that, with the “gift
Summary “Cheremish brother of the hero” Cassil
In the fifth grade of one of the schools in Severyansk comes a new boy Gesha Cheremish. Classmates and teachers are delighted, because the new student is the brother of the heroic pilot Klimentii
Summary Matrenin yard Solzhenitsyn
AI Solzhenitsyn Matrenin Yard In the summer of 1956, on a hundred and eighty-fourth kilometer from Moscow, a passenger leaves the railway line on Murom and Kazan. This is a storyteller whose fate reminds