It is often said about spring: spring is red. “Krasna” – not because there are red flowers. After all, the main color of spring is green anyway. But because it’s beautiful. It’s really a very beautiful time of year. In the early days of spring nature still looks rather unattractive: gray clods of snow, bare … Read more
Every person has a soul. which can be compared with a flickering twinkle that burns inside a street lamp. The human body can be compared to a vessel that is filled with the soul. A person must constantly grow spiritually, then he will be in harmony with himself. When his thoughts are pure, and in … Read more
Romain Rolland Cola Bryunion “The smoking-room is alive…” – Cola cries to friends who came to see if he died from the plague. But no, Cola Bryunnon, “an old sparrow of Burgundian blood, full of spirit and belly, no longer the first youth, half-century knocked, but strong,” is not going to leave his beloved land … Read more
Sashka, the hero of Andreev’s “Christmas story,” possessed an unruly and courageous soul, could not calmly take to evil and took revenge on life. For this purpose, he beat his comrades, rudely bribed his superiors, tore up the textbooks, and lied to the teachers and mothers all day… Before Christmas Sasha was kicked out of … Read more
F. Schlegel Lucinda Julius tries to find Lucinda where he used to see her-in her room, on their couch-and, without finding her, begins to conduct with her a strange, meaningless conversation, then giving herself up to the will of his fantasies, then resorting to the help of the inscriptions he once wrote, preserved by her … Read more
Yu. G. O’Neill Love under the elms The action takes place in New England on the farm of Effraim Cabot in 1850. In the spring, the old Cabot leaves somewhere unexpectedly, leaving the farm for the sons – the eldest, Simeon and Peter (they are under forty), and Ebina, born in a second marriage (he … Read more
Money. Money rules the world. Money can do anything. If people treated money as a means of existence, the rich would be much happier, much more valuable, because they would think more about others, their life would not belong to money, it could be beautiful. But they devote their lives to making money, then to … Read more
Alexander Nikolayevich Serov is a singer, composer, arranger, Honored Artist of the RSFSR and People’s Artist of Russia. Alexander was born on March 24, 1954 in a small village of Kovalevka, Mykolayiv region. In the world of music, Alexander was already in school. Then in his biography Serov was a member of the school orchestra. … Read more
Stepanida and Petrok Bogatka live on the farm of Jáchymovschina, three kilometers from the village of Vyselki. Their son Fedya serves in tank troops, the daughter of Fenya studies “on the doctor” in Minsk. The war begins. The front is rapidly rolling to the east, the Germans are coming. There comes a terrible life in … Read more
The schooner “Pilgrim” is moving towards San Francisco. There are a lot of people on board, among them Captain Gul, five experienced sailors, a fifteen-year-old junior sailor – the orphan Dick Send, the ship Negro, and the wife of the owner of the Pilgrim James Weldon – Mrs. Weldon, with her five-year-old son Jack, her … Read more