The novel takes place in the winter of 1918-19 in a certain City, in which Kiev is clearly guessed. The city is occupied by German occupation forces, the hetman of “All Ukraine” is in power. However, from day to day the city of Petliura can enter the city – the battles are already twelve kilometers … Read more
(1871-1919) A prose writer, a playwright. Born August 9 (21 N. s.) In the city of Orel in the family of an official. In six years I learned to read “and read very much, everything that came to hand.” In 11 years he entered the Orel gymnasium, which he graduated in 1891. From early childhood, … Read more
The theme of the sea, like the sea itself, would seem to be endless. There is no man who saw him and would remain indifferent to the sea. But Aivazovsky knew how to “talk” about this beautiful miracle of nature in his own way – through pictures. He could pass on his love to others. … Read more
The action takes place in Moscow, in the first decade of the reforms of Alexander II. The first act of the play is in the apartment where Yegor Dmitrievich Glumov, a young man, lives with his widow mother. In it, according to the author’s remark, is a clean, well-furnished room. The room is entered, continuing … Read more
In a short time, from the appearance of the first computer to their mass application, computer technology has conquered the whole world. Today it is impossible to imagine an engineer, an economist or a doctor without the use of computers. Personal computer (PC) has become an indispensable assistant in solving a wide variety of tasks. … Read more
Now I am at an age when it is already worth thinking about your future. I have an excellent example of my parents before my eyes. I mean their very kind, trusting relationship. They have a very strong alliance, despite the fact that they have been married for more than 15 years. I dream that … Read more
Last summer my brothers and I rested with my grandparents in the village. We like them, because in the summer we do not need to go to school, but in the village, there is a river, in which it is very pleasant to swim. For all the time that we stayed there, we had different … Read more
The history of my family dates back to a long time ago. I do not even know where and how. The only thing I can tell is the stories of grandmothers and they are very interesting and exciting. We are the aboriginals of our city, but as my grandmother says on my mother’s line: “We … Read more
Positive character traits in men and women. Each person has his own character. And the characters of a man and a woman are generally different. What positive qualities of a man are inherent in women and men? How are the same qualities manifested in the representatives of the strong and weak half of humanity? Man … Read more
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is a great Russian writer, a talented playwright, an academician, a doctor by profession. The most important thing in his work is that many works have become classics of world literature, and his plays are staged in theaters around the world. Early years He was born on January 17, 1860 in Taganrog … Read more
Sometimes a man thinks of himself as a creator of nature, raises himself above the other living beings, but such dominance is relative. Before the head of the element and the all-powerful nature, a person seems like a small goat, which can be easily slapped with one hand. Such thoughts caused in my mind a … Read more
Philippe Starck is a French designer. Training in the biography of Philippe Starck was held in the School of Camondo in Paris. Because of his passion for lightweight inflatables, after graduating from school, Philip opened his studio in 1968, developing such products. In 1969, Philippe Starck began collaborating with Pierre Cardin. Six years later he … Read more
The main character lived in the village of Lamanchsky, his property was small – a spear, a shield, an old horse and a dog. His name was Kehan. The age of the hero was approaching fifty years. He was fond of reading knightly novels and gradually introduced himself as a traveling knight. He polished his … Read more
Julia Lambert is the best actress in England. She is forty-six years old; she is beautiful, rich, famous; busy with the favorite thing in the most favorable conditions for this, that is, playing in your own theater; her marriage is considered ideal; she has an adult son… Thomas Fennel is a young accountant hired by … Read more
Peru, the famous writer of the twentieth century, Herbert Wells, owns many works, including the novel Invisible Man. Characters of the novel: Griffin is a scientist and protagonist of the narrative, Dr. Kemp, vagabond Marvel. The work begins with the description of the tavern Kucher and horses, owned by Mrs. Hall and her henpecked husband. … Read more
Six-year-old girl Nadia is ill, according to Dr. Mikhail Petrovich, “indifference to life.” The only way to cure it is to cheer. But the girl does not want anything and every day becomes weaker. So she lies whole days and whole nights, quiet, sad. Sometimes she sleeps for half an hour, but in a dream … Read more
Characters. Mikhailo Ivanovich Moshkin, 50 years old. lively, busy, good-natured. Pyotr Ilyich Vilitsky, 23 years old. indecisive, weak, self-interested man. Rodion Karlovich von Funk, 29 years old. Cold, dry creature. Philip Yegorovich Shpundik, landowner of 45 years. with claims of education. Marya Vasilievna Belova, an orphan who lives near Moshkin, is 19 years old. Ekaterina … Read more
THE FLYING HOLLANDER (MARIYAK-SKITALETS) Romantic opera in three acts R. Wagner’s libretto Characters: Dutchman Daland, Norwegian sailor Senta, his daughter Eric, the hunter Mary, the nurse of Senta Helicopter ship Dalanda Baritone Bass Soprano Tenor Mezzo soprano Tenor Norwegian sailors, the crew of the Flying Dutchman, the girl. The action takes place on the Norwegian … Read more
Sooner or later a person thinks about what life is and what is its meaning. Most often this happens when he managed to live for more than a year and has accumulated a decent life experience. But it seems to me that the sooner a person poses this question, the better. When you are at … Read more
The action takes place in our city today. A room in the style of the fifties. Evening tea. In the chair Valentina’s grandmother, next to Valina’s mother, near the mirror – Zhenya, the elder sister. Waiting for Valya. Mother is indignant. It seems to her that Valya is too dissolute: in the metro she went … Read more
The baptism of Rus was an epoch-making event for the ancient Russian people and the state of Kievan Rus from the point of view of both statehood, mentality, and spirituality. Therefore, it is no coincidence that Viktor Vasnetsov repeatedly drew the same story of the Baptism of Rus. Until now, this plot has reached the … Read more
Childhood and youth of Alexander Ryzhov В царствование Екатерины II, в городке Солигалич, Костромской губернии в семье мелкого канцелярского служителя Рыжова родился сын Алексашка. Потеряв в малолетнем возрасте отца, воспитывался матерью, продававшей на рынке пироги собственного изготовления. Грамоте мальчик выучился у бедного дьяка. И тогда уже стал зарабатывать свои первые копейки тем, что писал старухам … Read more
The first love is an essay. About love! How a chance encounter gave true love Among people there is an opinion that the first love, the composition of which is presented to the attention of the reader, is not subject to time and distance. However, in reality, often, everything looks much more prosaic, when, disappointed … Read more
Yury Mikhailovich Antonov is a composer, singer, People’s Artist of Russia. Yury Antonov was born on February 19, 1945 in Tashkent. Father Yuri was a serviceman, so that the first three years after the birth of his son saw him occasionally, because he served in the commandant’s office of the GDR. Then in the biography … Read more
Mrs. Elspeth McGillicady, a middle-aged woman tired of Christmas shopping in London, sits down on the train at Paddington Station, flips through the magazine and falls asleep. Half an hour later she wakes up. It’s dark outside the window. The train crashes with a crash. Then, for a while, along the neighboring rails in the … Read more
During the summer holidays, I went to rest in the camp “Sunny”. It is located on the shore of the Azov Sea, in a pine forest. In our camp there were 12 detachments, and I got into the fifth. Leaders Danil Ivanovich, Svetlana Igorevna and Anna Vladimirovna jokingly called us “pioneers”. Even in “Sunny” four … Read more
When the narrator, old Thomas, was still small, an unusual story happened to his grandfather. He claims that evil forces will freeze anyone. Here’s how it happened. My father went to the Crimea to sell tobacco. Grandfather and Foma went to live on a shovel (a piece of land), where watermelons, melons and various vegetables … Read more
Katerina Lvovna, “outwardly a very pleasant woman,” lives in the prosperous house of the merchant Izmailov with widowed father-in-law Boris Timofeevich and the elderly husband Zinovy Borisovich. There are no children for Katerina Lvovna, and “with all the contentment” her life “for an unskilful husband” is the most boring. On the sixth year of marriage … Read more
The theme is the subject of the work. then, what is said in this text. It determines the selection of material, facts, phenomena, signs, which are reflected in the composition. The correctness and completeness of the composition depends on how the topic is formulated by the teacher, how the schoolchildren are brought to its understanding. … Read more
The novel “Crime and Punishment” made a very strong impression on me. FM Dostoyevsky is a profound philosopher and subtle psychologist. He entered the history of Russian literature as a master of the description of the “sick soul”. One of the most interesting heroes of Dostoevsky is Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a murderer, philosopher, thinker. Impoverished … Read more
In many of his paintings, the artist reflects the theme of the movement of the People’s Will in Russia. This work is directly related to political struggle. It was painted in 1882. Historians and critics consider Makovsky a realist, because he shows life by exposing the whole truth. In this picture, we see a man … Read more
The structure of the novel by F. M. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment” is different in that there is an epilogue in the work. He is not directly connected with the main action of the novel, but plays a very important role in the ideological design of the work. Epilogue consists of two parts. In the … Read more
The time of events refers to the twelfth century. The 12th century is the period of the crusades to the south of Europe and Asia. In one of the biggest battles, the crusaders suffer a complete defeat. Many of the knights are captured by the Arab Sultan Saladin. Most of the knights are executed, but … Read more
Preparations for departure to the capital begins the third part of the trilogy. The main character – Kartashev’s theme is full of dreams about how he “will become serious, will be engaged, will be a scientist”, and for his loved ones this is a time of regrets about that ideal theme they wanted to see … Read more
Herzen’s book begins with the stories of his nurse about the troubles of the Herzen family in Moscow in 1812, occupied by the French; ends with European impressions of 1865-1868. Actually, memories in the exact sense of the word “Past and thoughts” can not be called: a consistent narrative is, I think, found only in … Read more
(1884-1677) Gorodetsky Sergei Mitrofanovich (1884 – 1967), poet, prose writer, playwright, critic, publicist, artist. He was born on January 5 (17th century) in St. Petersburg in the family of an official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, an ethnographic writer, an amateur artist. After graduating from high school, Gorodetsky enrolled in the Faculty of History … Read more
Venedikt Erofeev was born in the village of Niva-2 (suburb of Kandalaksha). Father – the head of the railway station, repressed and serving a prison sentence in 1939-1954. According to other sources, Venedikt Erofeev’s father voluntarily went north as a settler, on conditions of preferential travel, large lifts, with free housing [the source is not … Read more
The action takes place in a taiga district center in the early summer morning. Valentina, a slender, pretty girl of about eighteen, goes to the teahouse where she works, and on the way she looks around the front garden in front of the house: again the boards are taken out of the fence, the gate … Read more
To Robert and Fred Kaplen in Chantbari Kloe came friends and relatives for dinner. Among the invited married couple are Gordon and Betty Whitehouse, an employee of the publishing house Oluen Peel, one of the newly appointed directors of this English publishing house Charles Trevor Stanton, and finally the writer Maud Mokridge. While the men … Read more
The works of Jean-Baptiste Moliere in spirit are very close to the Russian people. Moliere knew that comedy art touches his contemporaries more and deeper than tragedy. His life credo was – “entertaining, to teach.” Moliere always led the struggle to establish his plays on stage. In them he portrayed the most diverse inhabitants of … Read more
The watchdog was not tall, but squat and broad-chested. Thanks to the long, slightly curly wool, there was a distant resemblance to a white poodle, but only with a poodle, which was never touched by soap, comb or scissors. In the summer he constantly ran from head to end of the tail with spiny “thongs”, … Read more
Apollodorus and his friend Apollodorus, at the request of a friend at a meeting with him, talks about a feast at Agathon, where Socrates, Alcibiades and others were and talked about love. It was a long time ago, Apollodorus himself was not present there, but learned about the conversations of those from Aristodem. On that … Read more
NA Ostrovsky How the Steel Was Tempered The autobiographical novel of Nikolai Ostrovsky is divided into two parts, each of which contains nine chapters: childhood, adolescence and adolescence; then mature years and illness. For an unworthy act (poured the priest to the dough in the dough) the cook’s son Pavk Korchagin is expelled from the … Read more
The story begins like this: “I was brought to the hospital with typhoid fever.” The hero got “some special hospital,” where he did not like everything. For example, I did not like that the patient was “brought, wrote it in a book, and suddenly he reads on the wall a poster:” The extinction of corpses … Read more
Autumn is the most beautiful time of the year. It was not for nothing that Alexander Pushkin’s autumn was the favorite season of the year. One can not help admiring the beauty that autumn gives us. And how beautiful it is in the autumn in the forest! Sometimes just words are not enough to describe … Read more
I like to celebrate all sorts of holidays. It seems that these are some unusual days, in which something interesting will happen. In general, my favorite holiday is the New Year, because it is celebrated by all people, everywhere the festive atmosphere. A birthday is an individual holiday, in which only the birthday person and … Read more
For more than one generation of connoisseurs of art, it was lucky to touch the greatest creation of the famous Russian artist Ilya Repin. His painting “Burlaki on the Volga” is similar to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony or Toccata and Fugue in D minor of the immortal organ-maker Johann Bach! Burlaki, depicted in the picture, cause … Read more
Recently we all class visited the Historical Museum. This two-story building of an ancient building is located in the center of the city. At the entrance of it there are a tank and a cannon – as battle symbols of the military prowess of our grandfathers, great-grandfathers, who defended our land from the fascist invaders. … Read more
D’Artagnan, in response to the inquiries of de Bragelon about what was happening in Paris in his absence, is indignant: “Do you really want me to instill disgust at your dear and teach you to curse the women, which is the happiness of our life?” A friend of Louise Ora Montale sends Raul for all … Read more
The action of the play from beginning to end takes place in the solemn atmosphere of the Trondheim cathedral in Nidaros, the medieval capital of Norway. On the sides of the scene – funerary niches, in the center – the tomb of Harald, the grandfather of the ruling king Hakon Shirokoplechego. The closest to the … Read more