Why a colon is needed

The colon is a very interesting punctuation mark. We quite often can meet him in texts of various styles and subjects. All of us are educated people, therefore, we need to know how to put punctuation marks correctly, including a colon. We often write each other messages, letters, and so ugly happens when our written … Read more

Painting Serov “Portrait of the actress Yermolova”

“Maria N. Ermolova,” writes Stanislavsky, “is a whole epoch for the Russian theater, and for our generation it is a symbol of femininity, beauty, strength, pathos, sincere simplicity and modesty.” Her data were exceptional. sensitivity, inspired temperament, great nervousness, inexhaustible inner depths. The external data of Maria Nikolaevna were no less significant. She had an … Read more

Summary “The Queen of Spades”

“Pushkin’s Queen of Spades” is written in the traditions of the literary realism direction. The idea and plot of the work was suggested to the writer by the young prince Golitsyn, who somehow managed to recoup, putting, on the advice of his grandmother, N. P. Golitsina, while playing three cards. Golitsina in due time, suggested … Read more

“The Cleaved Skies” by K. Wolf in Brief Contents

The action takes place in 1960-1961. in the GDR. The main character, Rita Seidel, a student who worked during the vacations at the car building plant, lies in the hospital after she almost fell under the carriages that were maneuvering on the tracks. Later it turns out that this was an attempt at suicide. In … Read more

My Favorite Toy

I was about five years old when my parents gave me a funny, soft toy – a shaggy, bright yellow with red spots, a puppy. He always lay at my pillow, spreading out long, plush ears. My friend became my best friend. to whom I trusted my children’s secrets and grievances. When I was doing … Read more

Biography of Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau is a traveler, was born on June 11, 1910 in the town of Saint-AndrĂ©-de-Cubzac. In the biography of Cousteau, the naval school was completed in 1930, after which he served as a midshipman for a short time. After leaving naval training because of injuries, he settled in Toulon. Then Jacques-Yves seriously became interested … Read more

Calderon’s “hidden caballero” in brief

In Madrid, Casade Campo, the favorite park of the townspeople, don Juan Carlos and his servant Mosquito await twilight. They can not appear in the city during the day: two months ago, Don Carlos killed a noble caballero Alonso, the son of Don Diego and the brother of Lysard, in which Don Carlos was unrequitedly … Read more

Mann’s “loyal subject” in brief summary

The central character of the novel Diederich Gesling was born in a German family of the middle bourgeois, the owner of a paper mill in the city of Netzig. As a child, he was often sick, he was afraid of everything and especially of his father. His mother, Frau Gasling, also lives in awe of … Read more

The tale of the chicken and the fox

A great place in the satirical literature of the 17th century. takes an anticlerical theme. Selfishness, greed of the priests are exposed in the satirical story “The Tale of the Savior of the Savior,” written in rhymed verse. A bright accusatory document depicting the life and customs of monasticism is the Kalyazin petition. The monks … Read more

About friendship

Oh, friendship! Who does not know you, He does not know the red days. N. Karamzin The friendship has many wings, but it has one law – fidelity. A. Makarenko Friendship, friends – these words denote one of the most remarkable phenomena of our life. The famous philosopher F. Laroshfuko said that friendship is “the … Read more