L. N. Tolstoy Resurrection No matter how people try to gather together in one small place several hundred thousand, mutilate the land on which they huddle, no matter how they pile stones on the ground, so that nothing grows on it, no matter how scraping any trampling grass, no matter how fumed with coal and … Read more
Iyon the Quiet is a famous explorer, captain of long-distance galactic navigation, a hunter for meteors and comets, a tireless explorer who discovered eighty thousand three worlds, an honorary doctorate of the Universities of the two Beards, a member of the Trusteeship of Small Planets and many other societies, a gentleman of milky and nebulae … Read more
Two friends decide if they do not climb a tree to eat chestnuts. Proposed this idea Fedyusha, but Senyusha objected that the tree is very tall, just so it does not climb. Then Fedyusha suggested the idea that a friend put him on the nearest branch so that he could collect chestnuts for two. So … Read more
Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov (real name Fridman, September 11, 1923, Voronezh – December 23, 2009, Moscow) is a Russian Soviet writer. In 1941 he left for the front as an ordinary soldier. He fought on the North-Western Front in the 387th Artillery Regiment of the 34th Army. From the front he was sent to the artillery … Read more
In the hot summer afternoon the mouse prince Krokhobor drank water from the swamp and met the frog king of Vzdulomord there. He turned to him, as Homer turned to Odysseus: “Wanderer, who are you from what kind of family?” And came from where? ” Word for word, they met, the frog planted a mouse … Read more
Canteen. Morning. A set table with a snack. The action takes place in the estate of the leader of the local nobility. Nikolai Ivanovich Balagolayev invited one of his neighbors, a judge and a former leader in the morning, to resolve the dispute between Kaurova, the 45-year-old widow of the lieutenant and her brother, landowner … Read more
J. F. Cooper Deerslayer, or First Warpath Overcoming a barely passable forest thicket, two young men came to the shore of a dazzlingly shining mountain lake. The first of the travelers is the stalwart strongman and the bouncer Harry March, noticing the admiration of his comrade, said that in comparison with the Great Lakes of … Read more
Mikhail Pryaslin stayed with his sister Tatyana in Moscow. It seems that he was in communism. The dacha is a two-storey, five-room, car. Arriving, he himself began to wait for his brother Petya and Grisha to visit. I showed them my new home. And in the house a polished sideboard, a sofa, a carpet, curtains … Read more
Standing three hundred odd years on the banks of the Angara, Matera saw everything in her lifetime. “By the time of the Angara, the bearded Cossacks ascended the Irkutsk jail up past the Angara, the trading people who were scurrying to and fro on that side, were tugging at it for the night, carrying convicts … Read more
Who in Baghdad does not know the great Giaffar, the sun of the universe? Once, many years ago, he was still a young man, Giaffar was walking around Baghdad. Suddenly a hoarse scream reached his ears: someone was desperately crying for help. Giaffar differed between his peers with prudence and thoughtfulness; but his heart was … Read more