VISSSARION YAKOVLEVICH SHEBALIN 1902-1963 Shebalin is one of the outstanding Soviet composers. His creativity is characterized by the depth and significance of the designs, the brightness of the figurative incarnation, the clarity of compositional thinking, the perfection of professional mastery. Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin was born on June 11 (new) in 1902 in Omsk. He received … Read more
S. T. Aksakov. Childhood of Bagrov-grandson. The book, in essence, memoirs, describes the first ten years of the child’s life (1790s), held in Ufa and the villages of the Orenburg province. The author reproduces the child’s perception, for which everything is new and everything is equally important, events are not divided into main and secondary: … Read more
VP Nekrasov In the trenches of Stalingrad The action begins in July 1942 with retreat under Oskol. The Germans came to Voronezh, and from the newly defended fortifications the regiment departs without a single shot, and the first battalion led by battalion commander Shiryaev remains for cover. The main character of the narrative, Lieutenant Kerzhentsev, … Read more
The play unfolds on the spring evening of 1912 in the northern part of the central counties of England, in the industrial town of Brumley, in the house of the Berliners. In a narrow family circle, the engagement of Sheila, the daughter of Arthur Beurling, a wealthy industrialist, is celebrated with Gerald Croft, the son … Read more
The action takes place in the 1880s. in the small Scottish town of Levenford. In the house of quaint architecture, the project of which James Brodie himself developed, live: the elder mother of the head of the family, whose only entertainment is food, his wife Margaret, a woman exhausted by life, the daughter of Nancy … Read more
The events described in the letters forming the outline of the narrative fit in a short time: August – December 17 … But for such a short time from the correspondence of the main characters, we comprehend their philosophy of life. Quite a long relationship links de Valmont, the main character, with his correspondent, Madame … Read more
In the provincial city of K. there are congresses of landlords and noble elections. In the best hotel of the city comes a young hussar officer, Count Turbin. There are no free rooms; “retired cavalryman” Zavalshevsky proposes the graph to stay in his room, lends Turbine money. Actually, Zavalshevsky never served in the cavalry, but … Read more
The action takes place in the estate of Petr Nikolaevich Sorin. His sister, Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina, is an actress, she is on his estate with her son, Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev, and Boris Alekseevich Trigorin, a novelist, quite famous, although he is not yet forty. They speak of him as a clever, simple man, somewhat melancholy … Read more
A. A. Kabakov The defective Yuri Ilyich, research associate of the academic research institute, during the years of perestroika becomes the object of recruiting an organization that calls itself “the editorial office.” The editors who came to him directly to work, Igor Vasilyevich and Sergey Ivanovich, demand that he use their unusual abilities on their … Read more
Brief annotation of the sounded literary works, alphabetic index, news, forum. Audiobook Agatha Christi Hotel Bertram . Summary arriving in London, the famous Miss Marple stops at the hotel Bertram. Soon the hotel is killing, which seems to be a Miss Marple well planned. At the hotel, Bertram, in connection with the disappearance of the … Read more
Jack London Martin Eden Once upon a ferry Martin Eden, a sailor of twenty years old, defended against a gang of hooligans Arthur Morse, Arthur about the same years as Martin, but belongs to people well-to-do and educated. As a token of gratitude – and at the same time wanting to amuse the family with … Read more
THE FATE OF THE HUMAN Opera in three parts Libretto by I. I. Dzerzhinsky Characters: Andrei Sokolov, Sergeant of the Soviet Army Irina, his wife Anatoly, their son Soviet officer, representative of the command Colonel Mueller, the commandant of the prisoner of war camp Zinka, captive girl The girl in the dance Military doctor Old … Read more
Once upon a time there lived a minnow. His father and mother lived for a long time, did not fall in either ear or pike. And the son so to live punished, on the principle of “look at both.” The minnow was an intelligent fellow, and so he began to scatter with his mind, as … Read more
Karl Tsukmeyer Captain from Kepenik Captain von Shlettov trying on a new uniform, ordered at the tailor of the military tailor, the Jew Adolf Wormser, in Potsdam. This is a very well known at the beginning of the century officer’s studio, Wormser – the royal court supplier. Despite the assurances of the cutter Vabshke, that … Read more
“Inspector” – a comedy in five acts, written by N. V. Gogol in 1835. It tells how in the county town of an occasional traveler is mistaken for an inspector from the capital. There is a version according to which the story of the comedy “The Inspector General” Gogol was prompted by Pushkin. And the … Read more
Part one Alpamish and Barchin are engaged from the cradle. Their fathers, the brothers Bayburi and Baisary, noble beks of the “sixteen-tribe Kongrat tribe,” had long been childless, until they prayed to the god of children. Baisara had a daughter, and Baiburi had a twins: a son and a daughter. Having quarreled with his brother, … Read more
N. Chernyshevsky Prologue In the spring of 1857, the spouses of Volgina stroll through Vladimirskaya Square in St. Petersburg. Twenty-nine-year-old journalist Alexei Ivanovich Volgin is ugly, clumsy and seems to be a phlegmatic. His wife, twenty-three years old Lydia Vasilievna Volgin, on the contrary, is attractive, curious and used to produce the effect. During the … Read more
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 shy. Negroes were promoted to colonels … Read more