Germany, Berlin, World War II. On the day of the capitulation of France, the postman brings to the home of carpenter-cabinetmaker Otto Kvanglja the news that their son has fallen a hero’s death for the Fuhrer. This terrible blow awakens in the soul of Anna, the wife of Otto, the hatred of Nazism, which has … Read more
“Every time I went down from the village eel to the meadow, I again and again fell into my distant childhood – in the world of fragrant grasses, dragonflies and butterflies and, of course, in the world of horses that grazed on a leash, each near their own cola. I often took bread with me … Read more
The drama takes place in Norway, in the modernity of Ibsen. Inexpensive furnished but cozy apartment in which the lawyer Torvald Helmer and his wife Nora live. Christmas Eve. Nora enters the house from the street, carrying many boxes containing gifts for Torvald and the children she will put under the tree. The husband makes … Read more
In the well-to-do house live Vasily Vasilyevich Bessemionov, 58, the foreman of the paint shop, who marks a deputy in the city duma from the shop class; Akulina Ivanovna, his wife; son Peter, a former student, expelled for taking part in unlawful student meetings; daughter Tatyana, a schoolteacher who sat up in brides; pupil Bessemeenova … Read more
Dick Heldar, an orphaned boy, lives with his guardian, the vicious widow of Mrs. Janet. After six years of staying with her, Dick gets acquainted with Maisie, a long-haired, gray-eyed girl, a new widow’s foster child. Between them there is friendship. For several years they live in the same house, but then Maisy’s guardians send … Read more
Shkid or Shkida – so “detective” pupils have reduced the name of their educational institution – School of Social and Labor Education named after Dostoevsky. Shkida originated in 1920 in Petrograd. Its founders were Viktor Nikolayevich Sorokin-Viknikorsor and his wife Ella Andreevna Lumberg, a teacher of the German language, later known as Elanlyum. The pupils … Read more
VT Shalamov Kolyma Stories The plot of V. Shalamov’s stories is a painful description of the prison and camp life of prisoners of the Soviet Gulag, their similar tragic fates, in which the case is ruthless or merciful, an assistant or murderer, arbitrariness of superiors and thieves. Hunger and its convulsive saturation, exhaustion, excruciating dying, … Read more
Makar is the main character, a peasant. The author himself referred his work to “holy stories”. Written in the Yakut exile, the story is inspired by the real impressions of the young writer. But, calling in the original sketches of the hero Zakhar, Korolenko, obviously, it was not by chance that he changed his name … Read more
TURANDOT Lyrical drama in three acts (five scenes) Libretto by J. Adami and R. Simonyi Characters: Princess Turandot Altoom, the Chinese emperor, her father Timur, the deposed Tatar king The Unknown Prince (Calaf), his son Liu, a young slave. Ping, great counselor Pang, the great soothsayer Pong, the great cook Mandarin The Persian prince Executioner … Read more
Once on the highway, seven peasants converge-recent serfs, and now temporarily liable “from neighboring villages-Zaplatov, Dyryavin, Razotov, Znobishin, Gorelov, Neelov, Neurojazhka identity.” Instead of going their own way, the peasants start a dispute about who in Russia lives happily and freely. Each of them judges in his own way about who is the main lucky … Read more