Moses is a great prophet, a servant of God, the liberator of the Jewish people, the founder of Judaism. He is the main prophet of this religion and the “father” of all subsequent prophets. Translated from Hebrew, his name means “taken from the water,” and from Egyptian – “mo” and “uzhe.” Moses was born into … Read more
VG Korolenko In a Bad Society The childhood of the hero took place in the small town of Knyazhye-Vieno in the South-Western Territory. Vasya – that was the name of the boy – was the son of a city judge. The child grew, “like a wild tree in the field”: the mother died when the … Read more
About Oleg Pavlovich Marushkin (1938) could not find much information. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad (Petersburg), from which came out a lot of outstanding artists. He created sketches of the “Feast on the Neva” painting for the banquet hall of the Nevskaya Hotel in Leningrad. Painting “Strigunok” – apparently, the … Read more
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini – Italian sculptor and architect, was born in Naples. Biography Bernini is considered the history of one of the leading figures in Italian baroque. After receiving initial skills from his father was a sculptor), Giovanni worked primarily in Rome. Many of his early works, such as “David”, “Rape of Proserpine”, “Apollo and … Read more
Teenagers Simon and Lydia were neighbors around the house in Copenhagen. The boys in the yard shouted that Lydia had a whore’s mother; Lidia teased and tore them, and she was beaten, and she fought back, and one day Simon, unable to stand it, rushed to the offenders, and everything disappeared, there was only pain, … Read more
Who is Homer? Most researchers of ancient literature agree that Homer lived in the 8th century BC. He was born and worked in Ionia – on the West coast of Asia Minor and the nearby islands. It is possible that his homeland was Smyrna, the ancient Greek name of the city of Izmir, a major … Read more
The novel is a continuation of the “Years of Wilhelm Meister’s Teaching.” The hero who, at the end of the previous book, became a member of the Tower Society (or the Renouncers, as they call themselves), receives from his comrades the assignment to go on a journey. At the same time he is given the … Read more
“Tartuffe” – the recognized peak of Moliere’s creativity. In this comedy, ideological richness is happily combined with artistic perfection. The characters deduced in it are remarkable. In the play there are almost no “auxiliary” characters with a conditional characteristic. The main character, the hero of the comedy, is Tartuffe. It is in him embodied hateful … Read more
The narrator yearns for times when “Russians were Russian”, and Moscow beauties wore sarafans, and did not flaunt themselves in Gallo-Saxon dresses. To resurrect these glorious times, the narrator decided to retell the story he had heard from his grandmother’s grandmother. Once upon a time in Moscow a rich boyar, Matvei Andreev, lived in Moscow, … Read more
In the spring morning of 1965, a resident of Dublin, journalist Younger, who turns sixty-five on this day, receives a strange message. Its authors. Celestial Celestials, who are in Eternity, inform him that they have chosen him as the “experimental participant in the experiment,” which gives him the opportunity to live life anew. Celestials chose … Read more