Summary “And I see myself as a child”
Folklore motifs in Lermontov’s creative work occupy a special niche, although they are not often spoken about. However, in his main poem dedicated to the Russian Federation, Lermontov most “dear heart” calls just the
Summary “Epifan Gateways” Platonov
English engineer William Perry, generously rewarded by the Russian Tsar Peter for diligence in arranging locks on the Voronezh River, with a letter calling his brother Bertrand to Russia for the execution of a
Summary of the novel by M. A. Sholokhov “Quiet Flows the Don”
Book One Part one I The author tells how among the Don Cossacks in the Tatarsky farm appeared a kind of Melekhovs, nicknamed the Turks. This family went from Prokofiy Melekhov, who started a
Summary of “Gift”
The hero of the novel is Fyodor Konstantinovich Godunov-Cherdyntsev, the Russian emigre, the son of the famous entomologist, the son of an aristocratic family-is suffering in Berlin in the second half of the 1920s.
Summary of “Svetlana” Zhukovsky
On the Epiphany evening, the girls would guess: taking off her slipper, they threw him at the gate. So they tried to find out their fate, to guess the betrothed. And only Svetlana among
Summary of the “Pathfinder, or on the banks of Ontario” Cooper
Nineteen-year-old Mable Dunchen, accompanied by his uncle – the old seaman Cap – and two Indians (Fowling Arrow and his wife, the June Dew) have been for many days making their way through the
Summary of “Khutorok in the steppe” Kataeva
The year 1910. Leo Tolstoy died. The teacher of the literature of the Odessa Gymnasium Vasily Petrovich Bachey is hotly arguing with the sister of his late wife Tatyana Ivanovna about the attitude of
Bylina “Danila Lovchanin” in the summary
Prince Vladimir has a feast with a mountain. Princes, boyars and heroes, having been fed up and drunk, are boasting before each other: some – wealth, others – force, merchants – goods, boyars –
Cradle for a cat
Kurt Vonnegut Cradle for a cat “You can call me Iona” – such a phrase opens a novel. The hero-narrator believes that this name is much more suitable for him than the one given
“The Morals of Rasteriaevoy Street” Uspensky in brief
In the city of T. on the shabby and dirty Rasteriaev street there live many poor people: petty officials, petty bourgeois, craftsmen. Among them – a young pistol master Prokhor Porfirych. He is “of