The Intercession Cathedral, “that on the moat,” or St. Basil’s Cathedral, is an outstanding monument of Russian architecture. It was built in the middle of the XVI century by the ingenious Russian architects Barma and Postnik according to the royal decree of Ivan the Terrible, who decided to erect this cathedral in memory of the … Read more
In the city of T. on the shabby and dirty Rasteriaev street there live many poor people: petty officials, petty bourgeois, craftsmen. Among them – a young pistol master Prokhor Porfirych. He is “of the noble”: the illegitimate son of a master, a police official. But the origin did not make Prohor’s life easier. Glafira, … Read more
1. What processes form the relief of the east of the continent? To answer this question, you need to compare two maps – a map of the structure of the earth’s crust and a map of the modern relief. Look at these maps and compare the structure of the earth’s crust in the east and … Read more
Over 1 billion people live on the coast of the Indian Ocean. In the northern regions, industrial fishing is developing, it is 5% of the world. Since ancient times in the Indian Ocean, especially in the Persian Gulf, around the island of Sri Lanka, pearls have been mined. On the beaches of the Indian Peninsula, … Read more
(p. 1927) Zhukov Dmitry Anatolyevich – novelist, literary critic, translator. He was born on August 20, 1927 in Grozny in the family of an oil engineer. A descendant of an ancient noble family, who gave Russia a voivode, governors, governors, diplomats and writers. In December 1944 he voluntarily joined the ranks of the Soviet Army. … Read more
The “Great Bharat” is an ancient Indian epic consisting of approximately one hundred thousand couplets-schloks, divided into 18 books, and includes many false episodes, one way or another related to the main narrative. In the city of Hastinapur, the capital of the country of Bharat, the mighty sovereign Pandu reigned. By the curse of a … Read more
Young and ambitious Julien Sorel seeks to make a career in a brutal, hostile society. To achieve this goal, he has no means and possibilities, except hypocrisy, whose “art” he is compelled to master in order to adapt to the hated environment. Constantly feeling surrounded by enemies, Julien closely monitors each step, acts all the … Read more
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Comic opera in four acts (five scenes) Libretto by A. Gozenpud Characters: Petruccio, a nobleman from Verona Baptista Manola, rich merchant Baritone Bass Katharina Bianca } His daughter Soprano Soprano Lucentio Hortensio } Lovers in Bianca Tenor Bass Gromio Curtis } Servants of Petruccio Bass Tenor Biondello, Baptist servant Tailor … Read more
A young woman complains to the kuma that her elderly husband is not able to extinguish the flame of her love passion. Kuma advises her to seek solace on the side and have a lover. Their conversation is eavesdropped by a monk, Brother Gilbert, a libertine and voluptuary. He offers the old man’s wife his … Read more
Charles Perrault Cinderella The new wife of the respectable man disliked his kind and beautiful daughter. Father girl stepmother kept under his heel, so Cinderella, for which there was no one to intercede, was with the evil woman and her two daughters as a servant, and spent all her free time on the ash box. … Read more