Captain von Schlett is trying on a new uniform, ordered in the tailor’s studio of the military tailor, the Jew Adolf Wormser, in Potsdam. This is a very well known at the beginning of the century officer’s studio, Wormser – the royal court supplier. Despite the assurances of the cutter Vabshke, that the uniform sits … Read more
“Ada” is a grandiose parody of different literary genres: from the novels of Leo Tolstoy through the cycle of Marcel Proust “In search of lost time” to fiction in the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut. The novel takes place in a country that originated from the assumption that the Kulikovo battle ended in the victory of … Read more
One of the famous Soviet painters is Geli Mikhailovich Korzhev. Having fallen into the occupation, in wartime, found for himself a so-called harsh style. It includes a dark color palette, sharp contrasts of light and shadows, deep emotionality of the characters. His work “The Clouds of 1945” belongs to the same works. The picture shows … Read more
Poem to one of the plots of the “Mahabharata” During the stay of the Pandava brothers in the twelve-year forest exile, their common wife Draupadi once rebuked the eldest brother among the brothers – Yudhisthira in inaction, indecision, indulgence to the kauravas, and urged them to attack them immediately. A second brother, Bhima, agreed with … Read more
Do you need a person to be happy? To assert itself in life? To feel like a master of life? What should I prefer in life: feelings or money, empathy or calculation, power over oneself or power over others? On these and other questions, Honore Balzac tried to answer in his novel “Gobsek”. In the … Read more
All professions are needed, all professions are important. In our class, many have already decided on their future profession. For this purpose even meetings with representatives of the employment center were organized. They told what specialties are now in high demand on the labor market. The meeting was very interesting and fruitful. Some of our … Read more
In September 1941, the Nazi troops advanced far into the depths of Soviet territory. Many areas of Ukraine and Belarus were occupied. Remained on the territory occupied by the Germans and lost in the steppes of hamlets, where the young woman Maria, her husband Ivan and their son Vasyatka lived happily. Having seized previously peaceful … Read more
A semicolon is a punctuation mark that separates parts of a sentence from each other, not a paired one. Many people use a semicolon only for emoticons, but it has other much more useful roles and uses. Why do I need a semicolon? It is used to divide the sentence into parts when the comma … Read more
JR Kipling Small tales Why the whale eats only small fish When the whale has eaten all the fish, a small cunning little fish described to him the whole charm of a man’s snack and told where to find it, but warned that man is a restless creature. Kit swallowed the sailor along with his … Read more
Russia split into separate princedoms very inopportunely when the great Eurasian steppe came to life, where many nomadic tribes lived. At the beginning of the XIII century. the Mongols of Central Asia chose Khan Temucin as their talented commander and organizer. He was called Genghis Khan – “the ruler of the world.” Thus, a young … Read more