UPGRADED PRECISION Opera in four acts (eight scenes) Libretto by LI Dzerzhinsky Characters: Davydov Nagulnov Makar Lushka, his wife Grandfather Shchukar Lyubishkin Islander Jacob Polovtsev Damaskov Frol Timothy, his son Bannik Khoprov Wife of Khoprov Ulyana An old man with a cigar Cossack with a newspaper The fucking guy 2nd guy Cossack 2 peasants 2 … Read more
AK Tolstoy Prince Serebryan Starting the narrative, the author declares that his main goal is to show the general character of the epoch, its morals, concepts, beliefs, and therefore he allowed a deviation from history in detail – and concludes that his most important feeling was indignation : not so on John, as a society, … Read more
The story is based on the philosophy of Serenus Tseitblom. Born in 1883, he graduated from the gymnasium of the town of Kaisersaherna, then the university, becomes a teacher of classical languages and acquires a family. Adrian Leverkun is two years younger. Early childhood he spends in the parental estate, near Kaisersaherna. The entire way … Read more
IA Bunin. not recognizing the division of literature into prose and lyrics, created a collection of stories “Dark alleys”, amazing in beauty and tragedy of the world outlook. The story of the life of the heroine of the story “Cold Autumn” is penetrating and poetic, seemingly simple, set out in dry language. As in the … Read more
Events unfold in France eighteen years after the end of the First World War. Gaston, a man who fought against Germany and lost his memory at the end of the war, along with Master Yuspar, the attorney representing his interests, and the Duchess DuPont-Dufon, lady-patroness of the hospice for the mentally ill, where Gaston spent … Read more
IA Bunin Tanya Showing hunger and impoverishment in the village in winter. Tanya – a little girl – is sleeping on the stove with her brother Vaska (their father Korney and mother Mary). The family had to sell the cow and for a pittance the horse. But there is still nothing to feed the children … Read more
In the city of T. on the shabby and dirty Rasteriaev street there live many poor people: petty officials, petty bourgeois, craftsmen. Among them – a young pistol master Prokhor Porfirych. He is “from the noble”: the illegitimate son of a master, a police official. But the origin did not make Prohor’s life easier. Glafira, … Read more
We meet a young hero when they have two passions – to the theater and Mariana, and he is full of happy enthusiasm and enthusiastic plans. His father, a respectable burgher, created his initial capital by selling a collection of father’s paintings, and then made his fortune a successful trade, now he wants his son … Read more
Maxim Gorky A song about a petrel A cloud wind gathers above a gray plain of the sea. Between the clouds and the sea proudly thunderstorm Burevestnik, a black lightning like. Then, with a wing of the wave touching, then with an arrow soaring to the clouds, he screams, and the clouds hear joy in … Read more
A. Pushkin Boris Godunov February 20, 1598 For a month already Boris Godunov shut himself up with his sister in a monastery, leaving “all worldly” and refusing to accept the Moscow throne. The people explain Godunov’s refusal to marry the kingdom in the right spirit for Boris: “He is afraid of the radiance of the … Read more