The action takes place in the village Fires collective farm “The power of labor.” The people gather near the house of the dying chairman. Evlampiy Nikitich Lykov was famous not only in the region, but also in the country. Everyone understands that changes are coming, and they remember those thirty years that Lykov headed the … Read more
I like animals a lot. This is truly our smaller brothers, without which life would be boring and meaningless. I always wanted to have a little fluffy friend – a kitten. Mom did not want to take a kitten for a long time, she said that a pet is not just a beautiful fluffy lump, … Read more
In 1940, a famous fairy tale by V. Kataev appeared, “Tsvetik-Semitsvetik”, a brief summary for which the reader’s diary is offered to read. It’s about how the usual girl Zhenya had to make a difficult choice: to wish for something for herself or to help another person. Harmful dog One day my mother sent Zhenya … Read more
The painting of the remarkable Russian impressionist Konstantin Korovin “Crimea: Gurzuf” refers to the so-called “Crimean” period of the artist’s work. He was very fond of visiting his dacha in the Crimea, where he felt extraordinary inspiration. It is known about the existence of the artist several paintings on a small resort town called Gurzuf. … Read more
M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin Wise pisarer There was a “enlightened, moderately liberal” pisar. Smart parents, dying, left him to live, looking at both. Piskar realized that he was in trouble from everywhere: from big fish, from piscid neighbors, from a man (his own father was one day almost cooked in his ear). Piskar built a hole … Read more
In three hours’ walk to the north-west of the port city of Corsica, Porto-Vecchio, there are extensive thickets of poppies – the habitat of shepherds and robbers. Formed by seven to eight foot thickets of trees that survived the burning out of the forest, they are impassable not only for humans, but also for mouflons … Read more
During the sermon of the Buddha, one of the holy arhats surrendered to vain dreams. For this, the infernal torments were relied upon, but the Buddha mercifully sent the offender to the earth, that he be reborn in human form. Now his name is Liu Junzu, he is unstable in faith, can deviate from the … Read more
Tyulin – the hero of the story, the carrier on the river Vetluga. He has a youthful face, “almost without a beard and mustache, with expressive features,” a bassy chest voice, “slightly hoarse, as if from a strong hangover,” but there are “notes as direct and naive as this church, and this one pillar, and … Read more
How did it happen that the hero of Jack London was left alone with the wild nature? What made a man pull himself together? Nature suppressed him with her greatness and indifference, but the desire to overcome fear and pain lifted man to his feet. He had to get rid of this annoying picture that … Read more
The highest example of realistic art at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was the work of Ivan Bunin. Ivan Alekseevich Bunin is a Russian prose writer and poet, translator. Great influence on the development of the writer’s talent of Ivan Bunin had a moral and religious philosophy of Leo Tolstoy and the … Read more