1928 Berlin. Bruno Krechmar, a successful connoisseur of painting, who has his wife Annelise and daughter Irma, and who has never betrayed his wife for nine years of marriage, is suddenly carried away by a stranger who meets in the cinema. She works there as a chaplain. Her name is Magda Peter. She was sixteen … Read more
The Artamonovs’ Case Arrived in the city of Dremov Ilya Artamonov – a handsome stately man, told residents that he wanted to build a canvas factory on the riverbank. Earlier Ilya served as prikazychikom princes, got the will, for good service gave him money – that’s arrived to build. He has three sons – Peter … Read more
AIDA Opera in four acts (seven scenes) Libretto by A. Gislanzoni Characters: King of Egypt Amneris, his daughter Aida, slave, Ethiopian princess Radames, the head of the palace guard Rumphis, High Priest Amonasro, the king of Ethiopia, the father of Aida Messenger Bass Mezzo soprano Soprano Tenor Bass Baritone Tenor Priests, priestesses, courtiers, soldiers, slaves, … Read more
Karl Erp, the head of the district library in Berlin, the capital of the GDR, a forty-year-old family man with a nascent abdomen, wakes up in his room with a smile on his face. Reading the book at breakfast, he thinks of Fraulein Broder. After graduating from the library school, she, along with another student, … Read more
A fine man Ivan Ivanovich! What a glorious beak he has! When it gets hot, Ivan Ivanovich will throw off the bekesh, rest in one shirt and look at what is happening in the yard and on the street. Melons are his favorite food. Ivan Ivanovich bites into a melon, and collects the seeds in … Read more
VG Korolenko In a Bad Society The childhood of the hero took place in the small town of Knyazhye-Vieno in the South-Western Territory. Vasya – that was the name of the boy – was the son of a city judge. The child grew, “like a wild tree in the field”: the mother died when the … Read more
Teenagers Simon and Lydia were neighbors around the house in Copenhagen. The boys in the yard shouted that Lydia had a whore’s mother; Lidia teased and tore them, and she was beaten, and she fought back, and one day Simon, unable to stand it, rushed to the offenders, and everything disappeared, there was only pain, … Read more
The novel is a continuation of the “Years of Wilhelm Meister’s Teaching.” The hero who, at the end of the previous book, became a member of the Tower Society (or the Renouncers, as they call themselves), receives from his comrades the assignment to go on a journey. At the same time he is given the … Read more
The narrator yearns for times when “Russians were Russian”, and Moscow beauties wore sarafans, and did not flaunt themselves in Gallo-Saxon dresses. To resurrect these glorious times, the narrator decided to retell the story he had heard from his grandmother’s grandmother. Once upon a time in Moscow a rich boyar, Matvei Andreev, lived in Moscow, … Read more
In the spring morning of 1965, a resident of Dublin, journalist Younger, who turns sixty-five on this day, receives a strange message. Its authors. Celestial Celestials, who are in Eternity, inform him that they have chosen him as the “experimental participant in the experiment,” which gives him the opportunity to live life anew. Celestials chose … Read more