VISSSARION YAKOVLEVICH SHEBALIN 1902-1963 Shebalin is one of the outstanding Soviet composers. His creativity is characterized by the depth and significance of the designs, the brightness of the figurative incarnation, the clarity of compositional thinking, the perfection of professional mastery. Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin was born on June 11 (new) in 1902 in Omsk. He received … Read more
S. T. Aksakov. Childhood of Bagrov-grandson. The book, in essence, memoirs, describes the first ten years of the child’s life (1790s), held in Ufa and the villages of the Orenburg province. The author reproduces the child’s perception, for which everything is new and everything is equally important, events are not divided into main and secondary: … Read more
Karl Linnaeus is a doctor, naturalist, academician, author of the classification of flora and fauna. Born Karl Linnaeus May 23, 1707 in the village Roshult in Sweden in the family of a priest. Two years later he moved with his family to Stanbrohult. Interest in plants in the biography of Karl Linnaeus manifested itself in … Read more
VP Nekrasov In the trenches of Stalingrad The action begins in July 1942 with retreat under Oskol. The Germans came to Voronezh, and from the newly defended fortifications the regiment departs without a single shot, and the first battalion led by battalion commander Shiryaev remains for cover. The main character of the narrative, Lieutenant Kerzhentsev, … Read more
The play unfolds on the spring evening of 1912 in the northern part of the central counties of England, in the industrial town of Brumley, in the house of the Berliners. In a narrow family circle, the engagement of Sheila, the daughter of Arthur Beurling, a wealthy industrialist, is celebrated with Gerald Croft, the son … Read more
The action takes place in the 1880s. in the small Scottish town of Levenford. In the house of quaint architecture, the project of which James Brodie himself developed, live: the elder mother of the head of the family, whose only entertainment is food, his wife Margaret, a woman exhausted by life, the daughter of Nancy … Read more
ABAKUMOV Victor Semenovich (1908-1954). Minister of State Security (1946-1951). Colonel-General. He was born in Moscow, in the family of a worker. Thirteen years, after graduating from four classes of the city school, Victor went to the Red Army, served as a Red Army volunteer in the 2nd Moscow Special Forces Brigade. After demobilization he worked … Read more
I have a little sister. Her name is Katya. She is younger than me for several years, but we have much in common with her. They say that we are similar to each other: both externally and behavior. She recently turned 3 years old. Every day she becomes more intelligent and fun. I really like … Read more
The events described in the letters forming the outline of the narrative fit in a short time: August – December 17 … But for such a short time from the correspondence of the main characters, we comprehend their philosophy of life. Quite a long relationship links de Valmont, the main character, with his correspondent, Madame … Read more
In the provincial city of K. there are congresses of landlords and noble elections. In the best hotel of the city comes a young hussar officer, Count Turbin. There are no free rooms; “retired cavalryman” Zavalshevsky proposes the graph to stay in his room, lends Turbine money. Actually, Zavalshevsky never served in the cavalry, but … Read more