A. Pogorelsky Black hen, or Underground inhabitants Forty years ago, in St. Petersburg on Vasilievsky Island, there lived a male housekeeper. Among the thirty or forty children who studied in that boarding house, there was one boy named Alesha, who then was no more than 9 or 10 years old. His parents, who lived far … Read more
Maxim Gorky The case of Evseiikoy The little boy Yevseika is a bit on the beach. With boredom fell asleep and fell into the water. He was not scared. Dived and pulled the bottom. Looks around – it’s good: “The scarlet starfish is crawling slowly, the mustached lobsters walk along the rocks, the crab is … Read more
Charles Dickens The Adventures of Oliver Twist Oliver Twist was born in a workhouse. His mother had only one glance at him and died; before the boy was nine years old, he could not find out who his parents were. No kind word of affection, no kind affectionate glance has ever dawned on his dull … Read more
Soon on our website (“Secret Pages of Russian Painting”): “Unfavorable life circumstances forced Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin to lose 20 years of artistic life, but despite this, he took a worthy place among the best Russian and foreign painters. Tropinin was never abroad, and he developed his talent by studying nature, living mainly in Little Russia, … Read more
Jennifer Capriati – tennis player, was born on March 29, 1976 in the city of New York. The most famous as a teenager is a tennis idol. In her biography, Jennifer Capriati at the age of 14 was in the semi-finals of the French championship. The following year, she became the youngest female athlete in … Read more
My school is quite far from home. If you go by bus, you need to go to the third stop. But I like walking more, it takes twenty minutes. The road goes straight, downhill. It crosses one of the major districts of our city with a wide ribbon. Along the highway trees grow, sometimes a … Read more
Sergei Vladimirovich Kovbasyuk is a Russian lawyer, a professional agroinvestor is the founder and head of the bureau “Lawyers and Business”, an investor of “UWC Agro”. Member of the Bar of the City of Moscow. He was a member of the Public Council at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Biography S. … Read more
Since the days of Pushkin, Russian literature has been able to disclose the psychology of man, his innermost thoughts and feelings. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy introduced into the psychology of Russian literature his discovery, called Chernyshevsky’s ability to transmit “the dialectic of the soul.” “People are like rivers,” Tolstoy said, emphasizing by this comparison the multifacetedness … Read more
At the dawn, horses are driven from the bar horse yard. From the entire herd stands a serious, pensive-looking old piebald gelding. He does not show impatience, like all other horses, dutifully waits until old man Nester saddles him, and with sadness watches what is happening, knowing in advance every minute. Having driven the herd … Read more
In Russian folk art there is a proverb: “I gave the floor – keep it”. What does it mean and why is it so important – “keep your word”? A word is a great power, because they can unite or disconnect people, evoke love or, conversely, hate. And if you promised to do something to … Read more