The scene of action is Britain. The time of action is the 11th century. The powerful King Lear, feeling the approach of old age, decides to shift the burden of power on the shoulders of three daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, sharing their kingdom between them. The king wants to hear from his daughters how … Read more
1. What icons were created in Cossack times? Created icons and Cossack times. During the second half of the 17-18 centuries. especially popular in Ukraine was the icon of the Pokrov. In the lower part of these icons there were images of representatives of the Cossack sergeant, the atamans, the hetmans. The Mother of God … Read more
The main heroine of the story – Vera Nikolayevna Sheina, the wife of the nobility leader – had a pleasant time with Anna’s sister’s company at her seaside dacha, waiting for the imminent holiday. On the name day, not many guests gathered, all good friends and relatives. One event knocked Shane out of the rut: … Read more
The picture “Birch Grove” Isaak Levitan wrote four years. The main characters of the picture are white-birch birches. Long work on the picture is not accidental. The author perfectly knew with what tenderness the birch belongs to the Russian people. Our ancestors used this tree for numerous rituals. Birches were sung by poets. The picture … Read more
From the pages of this parable and breathes humanity and kindness. Indeed, a person endowed with reason simply does not have the right to be indifferent to the fate of our smaller brothers. And if you can not take a homeless kitten home, at least feed him. The main characters are Akbar and Tashchynar – … Read more
In the second half of the XIV century. The Russian princes had already acted harmoniously against the Horde. In 1378, the military forces of the Moscow and Ryazan principalities, led by the Moscow prince Dmitry Ivanovich, inflicted the first military defeat on the territory of Ryazansky Tatars. But the great Lithuanian prince Jagiello hurried to … Read more
The fairy tale teaches children good, mutual help, helping each other. Helps children understand why they need to help first the boy, and then think about their desires. On such examples, children learn compassion, empathy for others. And they will treat the weak at school or in the yard not with anger, but as a … Read more
After the end of the Russo-Japanese war, I chose a three-line better and set off from Manchuria to Russia. Pretty soon crossed the Russian border, crossed a ridge and on the shore of the ocean met with a Chinese, a seeker of zhen-shen. Louvain sheltered me in his hiding place, hidden from typhoons in the … Read more
FA Abramov Brothers and sisters Pekashinsky muzhik Stepan Andreyevitch Stavrov cut down the house on the mountainside, in the cool twilight of a huge larch. Yes, not a house – a two-story house with a small side shelter in addition. There was a war. In Pekashino there were old people, children and women. Without a … Read more
There were three famous writers of tragedies in Athens: the elder – Aeschylus, the middle one – Sophocles and the younger – Euripides. Aeschylus was mighty and majestic, Sophocles clear and harmonious, Euripides tense and paradoxical. Once having looked, the Athenian viewers could not forget how Fedra was tormented by his passion for stepchild for … Read more