The story takes place in 1833 in Moscow, the main character – Volodya – sixteen years old, he lives with his parents at the dacha and is preparing to enter the university. Soon, the family of Princess Zasekin enters the poor outbuilding in the neighborhood. Volodya accidentally sees the princess and very much wants to … Read more
K. Simonov The Living and the Dead On June 25, 1941, Masha Artemyeva accompanies her husband Ivan Sintsov to the war. Sintsov goes to Grodno, where their one-year-old daughter remained, and where he himself served as secretary of the editorial staff of an army newspaper for a year and a half. Located near the border, … Read more
The great Russian poet M. Yu. Lermontov can rightfully be called a poet of the past and the present. The historical theme, the theme of the generation change, The manners, traditions, foundations are one of the most important in his work. And if in the representatives of the past generations he saw a role model, … Read more
“In one huge forest, there lived a forester named Blackbeard.” He had two sons, the Elder of the twelve years, and the Younger was a nine-year-old. The brothers often quarreled, “like strangers,” so the forester was fun only in the forest. Once, on December 28, Blackbeard told his sons that they will not have a … Read more
Young Volga Svyatoslavovich longs for a lot of wisdom and strength. He gathers a squad of thirty soldiers, and they leave for a clean field. They hear in the plowman’s field: he whistles, and his plow squeaks. They go one day, another, the third – and can not reach the plowman in any way. Finally … Read more
Fox-sister and wolf The woman in the hut makes a patty and puts it on the windowsill so that it is baked in the sun, because they do not even have a stove with their grandfather – so they live poorly. A fox and a wolf pass by and steal a pie. The fox secretly … Read more
Part 1. Prison industry In the era of dictatorship and surrounded by enemies on all sides, we sometimes showed unnecessary softness, unnecessary kind-heartedness. Krylenko, speech at the process of “Industrial Party” Chapter 1. Arrest Those who go to the Archipelago to manage – get there through the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Those who go to … Read more
FM Dostoyevsky Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants Former hussar, retired forty-year retired colonel Yegor Rostanev, owner of the rich and well-appointed estate of Stepanchikov, where he lives together with his mother, the widow of General Krachotkin, an unmarried sister, Sasha’s daughter of fifteen and son of Ilya for eight years. Rostaneva’s wife died a few years … Read more
John Steinbeck Winter of our anxiety “Readers who are looking for what real people and places are described here under fictitious names and names, I would advise you to look around and look into your own soul, as this novel tells what is happening today almost across America. “ On a golden April morning, Ethan … Read more
The novel takes place in the distant future. The protagonist is D-503, the engineer who built the spacecraft Integral. He writes a manuscript, which is a kind of message to the descendants. The manuscript tells how the citizens of the Great State, led by the Benefactor, live happily. The manuscript is called “We”, and this … Read more