Summary of the “Kreutzer Sonata” by Tolstoy

Early spring. The end of the century. In Russia there is a train. In the car there is a lively conversation; merchant, clerk, attorney, smoking lady and other passengers argue about the women’s question, about marriage and free love. Only love covers marriage, says the smoking lady. Here, in the middle of her speech, a … Read more

Did Hamlet defeat evil?

Did Hamlet defeat evil? This question is difficult to answer unequivocally. On the one hand, we can say that he really won. But at what price was this victory given to him? He lost everything, including life. But could he live after the death of his mother, beloved? Hardly. He would be constantly tormented by … Read more

Biography of Elizabeth Boyarska

Elizaveta Mikhailovna Boyarskaya is an actress of theater and cinema.. She was born on December 20, 1985, in an acting family. Lisa’s father, Mikhail Boyarsky, is a famous actor, and Larisa Luppian’s mother is an actress of the theater. Despite the star family, in the biography of Elizabeth Boyarsky, the desire to become an actress … Read more

Summary Walden, or Life in the Woods

GD Toro Walden, or Life in the Forest In this book, Thoreau describes his own life, the period when, for two years alone, he lived on the shore of the Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and, in addition, shares his views on sense of being and about the most rational way of combining spiritual activity … Read more

“What to do?” Chernyshevsky in brief

July 11, 1856 in a room of one of the large St. Petersburg hotels find a note left by a strange lodger. The memo says that its author will soon be heard on the Liteiny Bridge and that no one should have any suspicions. The circumstances are being clarified very soon: at night a certain … Read more

“Saga of Cuchulainn” in brief summary

Birth of Cuchulainn Once upon a land of uladov birds of an unknown breed flew and began to devour all the fruits, cereals, grass, all the greenery to the very root. Then, in order to save their livelihood, the ulas decide to equip the nine chariots and set out to hunt the birds. On the … Read more

“Russian man at rendezvous” Chernyshevsky in brief

“Russian man on rendez-vous” refers to the journalism and has a subtitle “Reflections on reading the story of Mr. Turgenev” Asya “. In this article Chernyshevsky gives a broader picture associated with contemporary Russian society, namely, with the image of a “positive hero” of novels and novels, which in some situations shows unexpected negative properties … Read more

“Always always traces of the past”

Two feelings are marvelously close to us, In them the heart finds food: Love of native ashes, Love of fatherly coffins. AS Pushkin Academician D. Likhachev in his Letters on the Good and Beautiful wrote that memory and knowledge of the past, filling the world, make it more interesting and significant, that without the past, … Read more

“In the storm” Serafimovich in summary

On the sea, Grandfather Agafon and Andreika are fishing in the boat. They pull the fish caught in the net. The boy unintentionally releases the carp into the water, for which the grandfather painfully beats his tarred rope. Andrei is an orphan. When his father left for the Kuban and disappeared, the mother, along with … Read more

Under the Sun of Satan

George Bernanos Under the Sun of Satan Germain Malorty, nicknamed Mushette, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the Campanian brewer, once entering the dining room with a full bucket of fresh milk, felt unwell; parents immediately guessed that she was pregnant. The obstinate girl does not want to say who the father of the future child is, … Read more