The most obvious reasons for the outbreak of hostilities are acute political, social and ethnic-ethnic contradictions, which not only survived, but also worsened after the February revolution. The most pressing of them is considered to be the prolonged participation of Russia in the First World War and the unsolved agrarian question. Many researchers see a … Read more
In the city of Siracusa lived a merchant, and he had two twin boys, like two drops of water. The merchant drove out of the sea and took with him one of the boys – named Menechm. There was a holiday, the boy was lost in the crowd; he was picked up by another merchant … Read more
IS Turgenev The spring waters of the Tale are prefaced by a quatrain from an ancient Russian romance: Funny years, Happy days – Like spring waters Rushed they are visible, it will be about love, youth. Maybe in the form of memories? Yes indeed. “He returned to his office in the second night, sent a … Read more
The first map, which depicted Europe, Asia and part of Africa, was made by the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes of Cyrene. She was very imperfect. The land occupied most of the map. The Bosphorus is the narrowest intercontinental strait in the world. Its width is 750-3700 m. The name means “bullish ford”. The Kerch Strait, … Read more
Suddenly he remembered the Evanshan potion, took it out and gave the young man a sniff of that tops. With this a miracle happened. The guy turned pale, “The native steppe – wide, free and colorful – suddenly appeared before my eyes, with her and my friend, unfortunate… Volodya, my favorite volost! Native tents, native … Read more
1. Which of these continents should be more diverse? Why? One of the main factors determining the diversity of nature is the size of the continent. It can be assumed that the larger the territory, the more diverse it is. In addition to size, the diversity of nature is affected by the shape of the … Read more
The importance of language in the life of man and society, the functions that it carries – this is a very important side of the existence of society. It preserves the spiritual and cultural values of people. Through the language the people express their thoughts, express emotions. The words of outstanding people are quoted and … Read more
Franz Peter Schubert is an Austrian composer, the founder of Romanticism. Schubert was born in a suburb of Vienna in a large family. Even in his childhood Schubert’s biography showed a great passion for music: he played the violin, piano from an early age. At age 11, he entered the court chapel, where he began … Read more
Clerfe runs the car at the gas station. Filling gasoline boy named Hubert Goering finds out in him a race driver. Clerfe’s car frightens the horses carrying a sleigh with a man and a woman. The protagonist stops the animals and helps them to calm down. In the sanatorium “Montana” is treated for tuberculosis former … Read more
The plot of V. Shalamov’s stories is a painful description of the prison and camp life of prisoners of the Soviet GULAG, their tragic fates similar to each other, in which case a ruthless or merciful case, assistant or murderer, arbitrariness of superiors and thieves. Hunger and its convulsive saturation, exhaustion, excruciating dying, slow and … Read more
Main characters: Gordei Karpich Tortsov is a rich merchant. Pelageya Yegorovna is his wife. Lyubov Gordeyevna is their daughter. We love Karpich Tortsov – his brother, got lost. African Savzhich Korshunov – the manufacturer. Mitya is the steward of Tortsov. The action takes place in a county town, in the house of merchant Tortsov, during … Read more
Tom Brady is a football player, was born in San Mateo, California. Best known as the quarterback of the New England Peatriots team, twice named the most valuable Super Bowl player. Three times for the biography of Tom Brady athlete provided the team “New England Peyetriots” the title of champion of the National Football League. … Read more
(1907 – 1972) Efremov Ivan Antonovich (1907 – 1972), the prose writer. He was born on April 9 (22nd century) in the village of Vyritsa, St. Petersburg Province. The youth of the future writer fell on the years of civil war: the homeless teenager came to the autor of the Red Guards, went to Perekop … Read more
At the beginning of the XV century. The struggle of the Czech people against German domination and the Catholic Church was led by Jan Hus. He was born into a peasant family in the town of Gusintsy in the south of the Czech Republic. After graduating from Prague University, he received a master’s degree and … Read more
During his life, Dvorak wrote not a few operas, but the most famous and loved by the viewer was the latter – “Mermaid”. The sea maiden of Undine, or, as it is called by the Slavs, the Rusalka, worried the imagination of artists before and after Dvorak. Her image was inspired by F. de la … Read more
Thomas Herrion is a football player, was born on December 15, 1981 in Fort Worth, Texas. The biography of Thomas Herrion is notorious for the fact that the athlete died after the preseason game of 2005. Professional football player was an attacker in the team, “San Francisco Fortinners.” And in August 2005, on a flash … Read more
Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov was the first to open the way to the creation of the Russian lyrical landscape. The pupil of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, he relied on the traditions of A. Venetsianov, M. Lebedev. Overcoming the tradition of academic romanticism, Savrasov confidently followed the path of life’s truth. Who does … Read more
The emergence of the genre of the everyday story and its problems are closely connected with those changes that occurred in the Russian life of the XVII century: with the general rise of Russian culture, the desire for enlightenment, protest against the stagnant house-building life, interest in the human person. Household story captures the essential … Read more
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that every person has obligations to the state, in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. A citizen who wants to live in a democratic society that wants to be the master of his life always shows his Civil position. This position requires, … Read more
E. G. Kazakevich Star A platoon of Soviet intelligence officers entered the village. It was an ordinary western Ukrainian village. The commander of scouts Lieutenant Travkin thought about his people. Of the eighteen former, proven fighters, he has only twelve left. The rest have just been recruited, and what they will be in the case … Read more
O. Henry Department of Philanthropology After another successful scam, Peters and Tucker decide to become philanthropists. Once in the provincial town of Floresville, they, with the consent of local residents, open the “World University” there, and they themselves become his trustees. On the first of September, the newly-opened educational institution hospitably opens the doors to … Read more
O. de Balzac Father Gorio The main events take place in the boarding house of “mother” Voke. At the end of November 1819, seven permanent “spongers” are found here: on the second floor – the young young lady Quiz Tyfer with a distant relative of Madame Couture; on the third – a retired officer Poiret … Read more
Varvara Semyonovna – an ordinary woman, an old woman from a neighboring entrance. But its fate is interesting, although it is quite traditional for our country. Varvara Semenovna was born in 1913 and throughout her long life she experienced all the cataclysms and upheavals in our history. In the thirties, her father, a well-to-do, strong … Read more
KI Chukovsky Crocodile In Petrograd Crocodile walks the streets. He smokes cigarettes and speaks Turkish. And people go after him, scoff, tease and offend. And then the dog also expresses his contempt for him – he bites it in the nose. And the crocodile swallows the doggie. The people are indignant, angry: “Hey, hold him, … Read more
Peter III was the emperor of the Russian Empire only six months, when, in 1762, his own wife, Catherine the Great, overthrew him from the throne. After that, all in the same year of 1762, the former emperor was killed. Early years Peter III, nee Karl Peter Ulrich, was born on February 21, 1728 in … Read more
His great last picture of the artist Levitan called “Lake. Rus.” In the picture, the broad expanse of water reflects clouds illuminated by the sun. On the far shore, as far as the eye can see, fields, villages, domes of churches. Everything in the picture – the sun, the wind, the rushing clouds – is … Read more
All schoolchildren, without exception, summer is the most favorite time. And it’s not even because it’s warm in the summer, but because it’s three months of vacation and no school or study. Perhaps, if such a long vacation were in winter, then we all also loved the winter. But someone, once decided that the best … Read more
The text of Bradley Pearson’s book The Black Prince, or the Feast of Love is framed by the foreword and afterword of the publisher, from which it follows that Bradley Pearson died in prison of transient cancer, which he opened shortly after he finished the manuscript. Wanting to restore the honor of a friend and … Read more
There are absolutely unexpected meetings. Such an unusually interesting meeting I had recently. I met a wonderful person. I ran into this boy on our stairs when I took out the garbage. I immediately noticed his eyes – they were boundlessly blue, as if I looked deep into the sea. -Hi! – I said, from … Read more
After reading an excerpt from the pedagogical composition of the great French writer, thinker J. – J. Rousseau “Julia, or New Eloise.” I began to think. and what is reasonable parental love. What should it be? The feeling of love in the communication of parents and children is expressed through gestures, intonation, facial expressions, emotions, … Read more
Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky is a Russian writer, essayist, engineer, traveler. Nikolay was born on February 20, 1852 in a family with noble roots. Education in the biography of Garin-Mikhailovsky was received at the Rishelyevskaya Gymnasium in Odessa. Then he entered the St. Petersburg Institute of Railways. The next few years he spent in Bulgaria, then … Read more
Using in the conversation the phrase “real man”, as a rule, both women and representatives of the stronger sex talk about the same type. “Normal muzhiks,” as they call themselves, behave according to the ethical norms of society, value marriage and their family, love loved ones, live “right.” There is no clear definition of what … Read more
The novel takes place in England in the early sixties. The heroine of the novel, Emma Evans, on whose behalf the story is narrated, recalls the events that happened to her a few months earlier. Emma’s husband David is an actor. He acts mainly on television, but once the famous theater director Wyndham Ferrer invites … Read more
These two words – and there is something that best describes the relationship of two people to your child. But after all, children are also not indifferent to their parents. Moreover, some people have such strong feelings for their mother and father that they do not imagine their lives in general without them. This is … Read more
Adolf Hitler is the founder of National Socialism, the Reich Chancellor, the dictator of the Third Reich, the Fuhrer of the NSDAP and Germany. He is the man who unleashed World War II. Childhood and youth Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in the city of Braunau am Inn, located on the border … Read more
Zinaida Serebryakova is one of the first Russian women painters who have entered themselves in the history of painting. Its creativity, which has not fallen under any influence, is independent enough and original. The picture “Self-portrait with daughters” is written quickly, easily. The impression that two little daughters, having caught the moment, clung to their … Read more
Part 1. Two murdered girls Paul serves as the head of the prison guard in the suicide bomber, which because of the green linoleum is called the Green Mile. In the adjoining to the Mile room there is an electric chair. In that year, three more Miley guards are added one more – Percy. This … Read more
Elena Vsevolodovna Safonova is a Russian actress. Elena was born on June 14, 1956 in Leningrad in a creative family. Elena’s father was an actor, and his mother – a director. Not surprisingly, Elena Safonova in her biography chose an acting profession. She received higher education at the Gerasimov State Institute of Cinematography. Also in … Read more
Once, during the hunting, the author was caught in a strong thunderstorm and he had to look for shelter in the forester’s cottage. The forester was incredible growth and enormous strength. His name was Foma Kuzmich, he had the nickname Biryuk. The author had already heard about him. The peasants believed that no more such … Read more
Elena Igorevna Proklova – actress, Honored Artist of Russia, TV presenter. Elena Proklova was born on September 2, 1953 in Moscow. Already in her childhood Elena Proklova was surrounded by creative people in her biography. Undoubtedly, this affected its future fate. In her youth Elena did not even think about acting career, but seriously engaged … Read more
On the first Monday of April 1625, the population of the town of Meng in the suburbs of Paris seemed to be agitated as if the Huguenots had decided to turn it into the second fortress of La Rochelle: a young man of eighteen entered the Meng, wearing a red gelding without a tail. His … Read more
It happened once to a certain Zhang Yu to drive past Lishan Mountain. He remembered the story of the sovereign Xuanzong, the beauty of Yang Taichren and the commander An Lushane. By himself, he developed poetry, He spent the night at the farmstead. Somehow vaguely felt in my heart. Hardly dozed off, two envoys appeared … Read more
Strange adventures have occurred with a young scientist named Christian-Theodore, who came to a small southern country to study history. He settled in a hotel, in a room where the storyteller Hans Christian Andersen lived before him. The master’s daughter Annunziata tells him about the extraordinary testament of the last local king. In it, he … Read more
The novel describes the events of the Patriotic War with Napoleon in 1812. In the center of the narrative is the family of Count Rostov. Volume One The book begins in the summer of 1805 in St. Petersburg. At the evening, the maid of honor Scherer is present among other guests Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate … Read more
Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea The novel is based on the principle of diary entries of the main character Antoine Roquantin, who traveled Central Europe, North Africa, the Far East and for three years already settled in the city of Buleville to complete his historical research on the Marquise de Roelbon, who lived in the XVIII century. … Read more
Summer is in full swing. The forest is ringing with songs. They say threes, thrifts. Early in the morning, the deaf “u-du-doo” of the crested hoopoe is heard. At the top of the tree loudly cooed turtledoves. Above the rain-washed glades the forest skates ring among themselves, the song of the green-eyed girl rasps. In … Read more
March 1865 In the United States during the Civil War, five brave Northmen flee from the southerly Richmond in a balloon. A terrible storm throws out four of them to the shore of an uninhabited island in the Southern Hemisphere. The fifth man and his dog are hiding in the sea near the shore. This … Read more
By the middle of the 14th century, a new philosophical trend was emerging in Europe – humanism, which marked a new era in the development of human society called the Renaissance. Medieval Europe in those days was under a heavy burden of church prejudice, every free thought was brutally suppressed. It was at that time … Read more
(1836 – 1861) Dobrolyubov Nikolai Alexandrovich (1836-1861). Russian publicist, literary critic, poet, revolutionary democrat. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Dobrolyubov was born on February 5 (in the old style – January 24) in 1836 in the family of a very wealthy priest, in Nizhny Novgorod. Nikolai Dobrolyubov had only a boundless attachment to his mother – kind, friendly, … Read more
It is difficult to imagine that in comparison with the real dimensions of the Earth on this model – a globe with a diameter of 1 m – the dimensions of the highest mountain systems and the deepest depressions would not exceed 1 mm. And the ego with the fact that the real maximum elevation … Read more