Moliere Tartuffe, or Deceiver In the house of the venerable Orgon, at the invitation of the host, a certain Mr. Tartuffe settled. Orgon of the soul in him did not count, considering an incomparable model of righteousness and wisdom: Tartuffe’s speeches were exceptionally sublime, the teachings-thanks to which Orgon learned that the world is a … Read more
The narrator is a cat, just a cat that does not have a name. He does not know who his parents are, only he remembers how he got into the kitchen of a house in search of food and the host took pity on him and took shelter. It was Kusya – a school teacher. … Read more
A. Serafimovich Three friends Seven-year-old Vanjatka helps the mother: she drives the pigs in the yard, beats them with a twig. Then Vannyka runs into the stable to his father, watches him lubricate the wheels of the cart. “Vanyanka wanted to do everything that adults do, but not enough strength.” The boy decided to attach … Read more
Nibelung was one of the two kings killed by Siegfried. Then this name passed to the most Dutch knight and his fairytale subjects – the keepers of the treasure. Starting with the twenty-fifth of the avenues, the Nibelungs are called Burgundians. In the wonderful legends of the past, it is said that a girl named … Read more
M. Yu. Lermontov Masquerade Evgeny Alexandrovich Arbenin, a man of not the first youth, a player by nature and by profession, getting rich on cards, decides to change his destiny: conclude an “alliance with virtue,” marry and heal with a master. It is conceived – done. Life, however, makes a significant correction to this most … Read more
At the end of May 1812 in St. Petersburg, on Nevsky Boulevard met two friends – Vladimir Roslavlev and Alexander Zaretsky. Roslavlev mope, and cheerful Zaretsky worried about his friend’s condition. Roslavlev is in love with Polina Lidin. But not love is the cause of melancholy: at the request of the future teshi, he resigned, … Read more
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 1770-1827 The work of the brilliant German composer Beethoven is the greatest treasure of world culture, an epoch in the history of music. It had a huge impact on the development of 19th century art. In the formation of the ideology of the Beethoven-artist, the decisive role was played by the ideas … Read more
Juhan Borgen Little Lord Norway at the beginning of the 20th century. The hero – Wilfred Sagen, the Little Lord, grows up in the hypocritical atmosphere of a rich bourgeois family. Outstanding nature of a fourteen-year-old boy disgraces the mother’s pretense (father is dead) and other relatives, their desire to protect him from real life. … Read more
The novel “Rob Roy” gives a broad and complex picture of Scottish and English public relations of the early XVIII century. Action develops quickly, more lively than in other novels of Walter Scott. The protagonist, Francis Osbaldiston, was suddenly recalled from Bordeaux to his father on an important matter. Arriving in London, a twenty-year-old young … Read more
At the very end of August, the cadet adolescence of Alexei Alexandrov is over. Now he will study in the Third Junker name of Emperor Alexander II infantry school. In the morning he visits Sinelnikov, but alone with Yulenka he manages to stay no more than a minute. Always in the foreground, always in the … Read more