(1867-1945) Veresaev (real name – Smidovich) Vikenty Vikentievich (1867 – 1945), writer, literary critic, critic. He was born on January 4 (16th century) in Tula in the family of a doctor who was very popular both as a doctor and as a public figure. In this friendly family there were eight children. Studied Veresaev in … Read more
Nineteen-year-old Mable Dunchen, accompanied by his uncle – the old seaman Cap – and two Indians (Fowling Arrow and his wife, the June Dew) have been for many days making their way through the endless American jungle from New York to a small English fortress on the shore of Lake Ontario. They keep the path … Read more
I love my grandmother and spend the whole weekend with her. The grandmother is small on growth, thin, with blue veins on a neck and arms or hand. The facial features are expressive, clearly delineated, and correct. They point out that before she was beautiful. I especially like her eyes. In her eyes, there was … Read more
Galina Leonidovna Brezhneva – daughter of General Secretary Brezhnev. She was born in the city of Sverdlovsk in the family of Victoria Petrovna, Leonid Brezhnev. Galina Brezhneva aspired to become an actress, but on the instructions of her father entered the Dnepropetrovsk State University, the Faculty of Philology. She also studied at the University of … Read more
Sir Donald George Bradman is an Australian cricketer, was born in the city of Cootamundra. Sir Donald George Bradman is best known as one of the greatest cricket players, and also as an outstanding athlete. His career as a player in cricket lasted 20 years, and began in 1928. It was then that Bradman joined … Read more
The year 1910. Leo Tolstoy died. The teacher of the literature of the Odessa Gymnasium Vasily Petrovich Bachey is hotly arguing with the sister of his late wife Tatyana Ivanovna about the attitude of the tsarist government to the great writer. He decides to read the report on Tolstoy, in which he will tell about … Read more
Prince Vladimir has a feast with a mountain. Princes, boyars and heroes, having been fed up and drunk, are boasting before each other: some – wealth, others – force, merchants – goods, boyars – estates and fiefdoms. Danila Denisievich does not boast alone. Prince Vladimir asks him whether he is silent because he has nothing … Read more
Kurt Vonnegut Cradle for a cat “You can call me Iona” – such a phrase opens a novel. The hero-narrator believes that this name is much more suitable for him than the one given at birth, for he “always somewhere brings”. One day he planned to write a book “The Day the End of the … Read more
Every summer, my family and I move to live in the village for several months. It’s a pity, of course, to leave the city, where all school friends remain, but I never ask you to leave me at home. There is nothing more beautiful than village life! Wake up early in the morning, have breakfast … Read more
(1899 – 1983) Surkov Alexey Alexandrovich (1.10.1899, the village of Sereznevo, Rybinsk district of Yaroslavl province – 14.6.1983), poet, public figure, lieutenant colonel (1943), Hero of Socialist Labor (1969), twice winner of the Stalin Prize (1946, 1951). Educated at the Literary Department of the Institute of Red Professors (1934). Participant of the Civil and Soviet-Finnish … Read more