On a windy March day in 1867 along the mole of the ancient town of Lyme Regis in the southeast of England a young couple is walking. The lady is dressed in the latest London fashion in a narrow red dress without crinoline, which in this provincial backwater will begin to be worn only in … Read more
The plot of the comedy “Woe from Wit” is based on events that take place during one day in the mansion of the Moscow landowner-nobleman Famusov. From the very morning, a certain Chatsky, a young man who shines with intelligence and wit, defends the advanced ideas of the new time and ruthlessly criticizes the morally … Read more
Uncle remembers the quarrel with his little nephew, who appeared one winter night. Mentally turning to the boy, he tells him that he is a big naughty boy, who, after being carried away by something, does not know how to hold it. But nothing is more touching than the same baby, when he, being dishonored, … Read more
AI Solzhenitsyn Cancer case All gathered this terrible body – the thirteenth, cancerous. Persecuted and persecuted, silent and vigorous, hard workers and money-grubbers – they collected and depersonalized everyone, all of them are now only seriously ill, torn from the habitual situation, rejected and rejected all the familiar and native. They do not have anybody … Read more
AI Herzen Who is to blame? The action begins in the Russian province, in the estate of the rich landowner Alexei Abramovich Negro. The family gets acquainted with the teacher of the son of Negro – Misha, Dmitry Yakovlevich Krucifersky, who graduated from Moscow University as a candidate. The Negro is tactless, the teacher is … Read more
N. S. Leskov Imprinted Angel In the inn, some travelers are sheltering from the weather. One of them states that “every saved man… the angel guides,” and the angel himself led him. The next story he says, kneeling, because everything that happened – “a very sacred and terrible thing.” Markusha, an “insignificant man,” born in … Read more
At the dawn, horses are driven from the bar horse yard. From the entire herd stands a serious, pensive-looking old piebald gelding. He does not show impatience, like all other horses, dutifully waits until old man Nester saddles him, and with sadness watches what is happening, knowing in advance every minute. Having driven the herd … Read more
Vladimir Tendryakov’s childhood was spent in the bleak epoch of postrevolutionary Russia and Stalin’s repressions, all the horror of which remained in his memory a gloomy trace of childhood memories that formed the basis of the story “Bread for a Dog.” Perhaps, it was the effect of children’s impressions that helped the author to describe … Read more
Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805 in Odense on the island of Funen. Andersen’s father, Hans Andersen (1782-1816), was a poor shoemaker, the mother of Anna Marie Andersdatter (1775-1833), was a washerwoman from a poor family, she had to beg in her childhood for alms, she was buried in a cemetery for … Read more
The author recalls that he strove to imitate the incoherent, but seemingly logical form of the dream. Time and space does not exist, clinging to the tiny foundation of reality, imagination spinning its yarn. Heroes are split, evaporated, condensed, merged together. Above all – the mind of the dreamer. In the prologue Daughter of Indra … Read more