F. Durrenmatt Visit of the old lady The action takes place in the provincial Swiss town of Güllen in the 50’s. XX century. In the town comes the old multimillionaire Clara Tsakhanassyan, a nee Vesher, a former resident of Gullen. At one time several industrial enterprises worked in the town, but one by one they … Read more
Friedrich Schiller Wilhelm Tell The play takes place in three “forest cantons” – Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden, which, united in 1291, formed the basis of the Swiss Union in the struggle against the Austrian domination of the Habsburgs. It is hard for ordinary people who suffer from arbitrariness of the governors of the Austrian emperor … Read more
AI Kuprin Sulamith The main characters of the story are the king of Persia Solomon and his beloved Sulamith. The story consists of twelve parts. The first part depicts before the reader Persia during the reign of Solomon, tells of Solomon and his deeds. The king was about forty-five years old, when the fame of … Read more
Summer is a wonderful time, which everyone loves and expects, without exception, both children and adults. This wonderful time of sunny and warm days, trips to the sea by the whole family or a friendly company, this is the ripening of plants, the luxury and aroma of beautiful flowers, warm evenings, walks in the park. … Read more
Every person has the most expensive places in life. For me it’s my father’s house, my house, my street. When I was very young, my parents got an apartment in a new neighborhood on Druzhby Narodov Street. I believe that this name is symbolic, because friendship between people is the guarantee of the best feelings: … Read more
Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov (Kirghiz Chynyz Torekulovich Aitmatov) (December 12, 1928, Sheker, Kirghizia – June 10, 2008, Nuremberg, Germany) is a Kyrgyz Soviet writer who wrote in Kyrgyz and Russian languages, the People’s writer of the Kirghiz SSR (1974), Hero of the Socialist Labor (1978). Member of the CPSU since 1959. He was born in 1928 … Read more
The mortal battle is bloody, Mortal battle is not for glory, For the sake of life on earth! Having entered the new century and the third millennium, I want to look back, see and appreciate the most significant, fateful. The first in a series of such events, in my opinion, is the Great Patriotic War. … Read more
(1795 – 1829) Gribodedov Alexander Sergeevich (04.01.1795, according to other sources 1790, Moscow – 30.01.1829, Tehran), playwright, poet, diplomat. He was born into a noble family. He spent his childhood in Moscow and the estate of his uncle (by his mother) AF Griboyedov-Khmelit of Smolensk Province. He received a home education under the guidance of … Read more
Many people love animals, wild and domestic. Each animal or bird is interesting and inimitable in its own way. Most of all I love predatory and domestic cats. If the house could hold a tiger, he would have been with me. Therefore, instead of a predator in my room there lives a small red-haired kitten, … Read more
The life of Baden-Baden, a fashionable German resort, on August 10, 1862, differed little from life on other days of the season. The audience was cheerful and colorful. However, it was not difficult to single out our compatriots in it, especially near the “Russian tree”. It was here, at Weber’s coffeehouse, Litvinov’s Moscow acquaintance Bambaev … Read more