Street zucchini, vulgar and cheap, but with a claim to romance: huge identical ships are floating on the wallpaper… A light raid of unreality: the master and the sexual are alike, like twins, one of the visitors is “spitting Verlaine,” the other is “poured out” Hauptmann. ” Drunken companies, loud noise. Individual replicas, sketchy dialogues … Read more
Romashov, being a lieutenant from the parade ground, was returning home. He decided today not to go anywhere, since he decided not to bother. He liked to sit at a party quite late, but today he went home. Gainan said that the lady sent him a letter. They had already deceived her husband quite a … Read more
The play unfolds throughout the day in London, in the house of Lord Windermere and his wife, and in the bachelor apartment occupied by Lord Darlington, in the early 1890s. The main heroine of the play is Margaret, Lady Windermere – we find a family mansion in the small living room a few hours before … Read more
“A long time ago it will be back” lived in Chertukhin, a man named Mikhail Ivanovich Bachura, nicknamed the Holy One. In his old age, his wife died, and he began to feed alms. I met a girl-beggar on the way, brought him home and married her. Marya turned out to be a “sensible woman” … Read more
Spain, 1519. Palace of the Duke of Rui Gomez de Silva in Zaragoza. Late evening. The old man is not at home. Dona Sol, his niece and bride, is waiting for her lover Ernani – today their destiny must be decided. Duenna, hearing a knock on the door, opens and sees instead of Ernani a … Read more
AN Tolstoy Hyperboloid of engineer Garin At the beginning of May 192 … in Leningrad, an abandoned dacha on the Krestovka River is killing. The criminal investigation officer Vasily V. Shelga discovers a murdered person with signs of torture. In the spacious basement of the dacha, some physical and chemical experiments were carried out. It … Read more
The punishment of the gods or the joy of liberated labor It is difficult to find at least one work by Albert Camus. free from philosophical concepts. This is the analysis of his many critics. At the same time, the writer did not recognize himself as a philosopher in the classical sense of the word. … Read more
Prince Vladimir the sun is feasting in the Gridnitsa with his sons and a crowd of friends, celebrating the wedding of the youngest daughter of Lyudmila with Prince Ruslan. In honor of the newlyweds singing guslyar Bayan. Only three guests are not happy with Ruslan and Lyudmila, three knights do not listen to the prophetic … Read more
Stephen Dedal remembers how in childhood his father told him a fairy tale about the boy Bu-bu and the cow Mu-mu, how his mother played a piano dance to him on the piano, and he danced. In school in the preparatory class, Stephen is one of the best students. The children are surprised by his … Read more
After the end of the Viennese Council, the emperor Alexander Pavlovich decides “to go through Europe and see the wonders of different countries.” The Don Cossack Platov, who belongs to him, is not surprised by “outlandishness”, because he knows: in Russia “its not worse”. In the latest kunstkammer, among the “nymphosoria” collected from around the … Read more