The great Russian landscape painter Isaak Levitan depicted in spring, on one of his most famous paintings “Spring: Great Water,” a spring flood, when the river came out of the banks and flooded a small grove, field and village. Most of the canvas is occupied by water, its even and clean surface, in which one … Read more
What do I know about proteins? Squirrel – fidget. This is one of the most mobile animals of our forests. She, like a kitty, washes herself, then attentively looks around her eyes with black beads, clinks discontentedly, if she sees an outsider in the forest, and makes a rapid leap, spreading her fluffy tail, to … Read more
The war demanded rapid and dramatic changes in the whole way of life of the country. Overcoming the confusion, the party organs began sending out directives on the need to restructure the industry to a military way and evacuation of enterprises from the front zone. Fascists managed to seize the territory, which was home to … Read more
A person’s life, of course, depends on himself. There are those who are used to rely on chance, fate or other “higher powers”. But, basically, in our age of pragmatism and realism, people, above all, rely on their own strengths, preferring only responsibility for mistakes to shift to the shoulders of Mrs. Failure. But the … Read more
A creative approach to business can transform any profession. Everything depends on ourselves, on how we treat work. We hear a lot about people of different professions – modest and heroic, common and rare. Everyone understands the difference between a doctor and a geologist, an engineer and a teacher, an artist and a postman, an … Read more
Music is always present in our life, without it it is difficult to imagine the existence of mankind. But very few people know how music affects a person. However, it is proved that she can change the mood, cheer up or put to sleep. The brain responds to sounds, so their influence is enormous. Often … Read more
Quotation from the novel of the Russian writer Tolstoy Leo Nikolayevich (1828 – 1910) “War and Peace” (1863 – 1869 gg.), Volume 3, Part II, XXV. These words are spoken by Andrei Bolkonsky to Pierre Bezukhov on the eve of the battle of Borodino: “Do not take the prisoners,” continued Prince Andrew, “this one would … Read more
Fate… An incomprehensible power that governs life… Probably, it still exists if people from ancient times still believe in it and even try to predict it. What is fate? A series of coincidences, coincidences or something predetermined? Is it worth arguing with fate or better submitting to it submissively? These questions for millennia do not … Read more
The apology of the power and greatness of the Moscow kingdom and its head Ivan the Terrible is also characteristic of such a popular monument (more than 230 of its lists have been preserved), like “The History of the Kazan Empire”, or the “Kazan Chronicler”, which describes the fate of the Kazan kingdom since its … Read more
(on the tale of Charles Perrault “Cinderella”) French writer Charles Perrault was born in 1628. And in 1697 the first collection of his fairy tales was published in France. It turned out that this state husband, poet and critic, academician of the French Academy, was fond of folk narratives and entertained them with the royal … Read more