The life and amazing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a sailor from York, who lived twenty-eight years alone on an uninhabited island off the coast of America near the mouths of the Orinoco River, where he was thrown out by shipwreck, during which the whole crew of the ship except him died; with an account of … Read more
The action takes place in the 50’s. in France. The main heroine Cecile was born in a well-to-do bourgeois family, she was in the Catholic boarding house for several years, where she received secondary education. Her mother died, and she lives in Paris with her father, Reimon. The father, a forty-year-old widower, easily flits through … Read more
SIEGFRIED The second day of the tetralogy “Ring of the Nibelung” in three acts (four paintings) R. Wagner’s libretto Characters: Siegfried The traveler (the god Votan) Mime, blacksmith, nibelung Alberich, his brother Fafner, dragon Erda, the goddess of fate Brunhilde Voice of a bird Tenor Bass Tenor Bass Bass Mezzo soprano Soprano Boy or soprano … Read more
The action takes place in 1850-1853. The choir begins a story about the glorious thief Joaquin Muriete, whose ghost is still hovering over California, a free Chilean who died in a foreign land. Boys-newsmen shout news: in California, a gold rush. Attracted by distant mirages, crowds of people flock to the port of Valparaiso from … Read more
First a list of actors with detailed characteristics. Here are some of these individuals and characteristics. Pavel Nikolaevich Yeletsky, 32 years old. Petersburg official, not clever. A man is not evil, but without a heart. Olga Petrovna Yeletskaya, born Corina, his wife, 21 years old. A kind, gentle creature. Vasily Semyonitch Kuzovkin, a nobleman, who … Read more
Vanya, the son of Daria Rumyantseva, was killed at the front in 1942, and a paper with a seal and an incomprehensible but painfully suspicious signature comes in more than a year. And Daria decides that the paper is false, forged by some kind of unkind man. When the gypsies pass through the village, Daria … Read more
V. O. Pelevin Mittelshpil Initially, it seemed to me that this story is nothing more than an easy joke, a simple amusement for the author, and at the same time for the reader. But, remembering that Pelevin nothing happens for no reason, I began to look more attentively to the text, trying to see the … Read more
THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT MAN Opera in three acts (ten scenes) Libretto by S. S. Prokofiev and M. A. Mendelson-Prokofieva Characters: Alexey, the pilot Olga, the bride of Alexei Baritone Soprano Fedya Serenka } The guys from the collective farm Rhythmic talk Grandfather Mihailo, chairman of the collective farm Petrovna, the collective farmer Varya, … Read more
An extraordinary event occurred in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. Namely: gathered in the square, the citizens could observe the following picture: a balloon dropped from the sky. Glued from old newspapers, the balloon was generally of a strange shape, resembling a hood topped down by the top. Moreover, a huge hat with the widest … Read more
In the city of Murom, Prince Paul ruled. To his wife, the devil sent a flying serpent to fornication. He appeared to him in his form, and to other people he seemed Prince Paul. Princess in all confessed to her husband, but he did not know what to do. He told his wife to ask … Read more