Essay

For the first time we get to know the heroes in March 1848 in the Californian Sierra, when they almost die of starvation, as they have long since lost their way into a snowstorm and set up camp in some canyon. Two of them, Philip Ashley, a young man of uncommon mind and solid character, … Read more

KD Syamak The Choice of the Gods The main events of the novel unfold on the American continent in the eighth millennium of our era. On Earth live a few tribes of Indians, several thousand robots, created at the beginning of the third millennium, and two elderly people – Jason Whitney and his wife Martha. … Read more

The book is opened with a short copyright notice that after the death of Joaquin Monegro in his papers were found notes, something like “Confessions”, addressed to the daughter of the deceased. Some of these notes illustrate the story told by the author. Abel Sanchez and Joaquin Monegro grew up together from infancy, from the … Read more

The action takes place in the provincial town, in the house of the Prozorovs. Irina, the youngest of the three sisters of the Prozorovs, is twenty years old. “It’s sunny and fun in the yard,” and a table is set in the hall, waiting for the guests-officers of the artillery battery quartered in the city … Read more

“Cincinnatus Ts. Announced the death sentence in a whisper.” He was not forgiven for “impenetrability”, “opacity” Unforgivable Cincinnatus wine – in it for the rest, to the horror of the like (the jailor Rodion now and then turns into the director of the prison, Rodrig Ivanovich, and vice versa, the lawyer and the prosecutor by … Read more

AK Tolstoy Death of Ivan the Terrible. The action takes place in Moscow in 1584 and begins with a quarrel in the Boyar Duma: Mikhail Nagoy, brother of Queen Maria Feodorovna, argues for a place with Saltykov and draws other boyars into a match. Zakharin-Yuryev, the brother of the first tsareva wife, interrupts the debate … Read more

Two landlords, honorable people, well-intentioned, respected. One of them was retired Major-General Vyacheslav Illarionovich Khvalynsky. A tall, once slender, he is a little aged and flabby, but still “stands briskly, laughs sonorous, jingles his spurs, twists his mustache.” He has some oddities. Talking “with the nobles not rich or not,” he somehow looks at them … Read more

G. H. Andersen Nightingale Behind the garden of the Chinese emperor was a forest, and in the woods there lived a nightingale who sang so well that even a poor fisherman forgot about his seine, but then again took up his business and did not think about the nightingale until the next night. Travelers said … Read more

KG Paustovsky Cat of the thief We came in despair. We did not know how to catch this red cat. He robbed us every night. He was so cleverly hiding that none of us really saw him. Only a week later, it was finally possible to establish that the cat had a ruptured ear and … Read more

Charles Dickens Cold House Childhood Esther Summerston takes place in Windsor, in her godmother’s house, Miss Barberi. The girl feels lonely and often sentences, addressing her best friend, a ruddy doll: “You know perfectly well, doll, that I’m stupid, so be kind, do not be angry with me.” Esther seeks to learn the secret of … Read more

The protagonist of the narrative – Private Robert Lee Pruit – was born and spent his childhood in the mines in Garlan village, which in the thirties became known throughout America thanks to a strike of miners brutally suppressed by the police. In this strike the father of the hero was wounded and imprisoned, and … Read more

The theme of the last war always found and continues to find its reflection in modern poetry, and every poet in his own way comprehends and experiences it, giving birth to images in which his own ideas of the war were embodied. Rasul Gamzatov also devoted a lot of lines to the military theme. One … Read more

Beginning of the story of how God gave the victory to the Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich for the Don over the perverse Mamai and how the Orthodox Christianity praised the Russian land as the prayers of the most holy Virgin Mary and Russian miracle workers. The godland elevated the Russian land, and disgraced the Hagarians. … Read more

In one village, near the Bludov Marsh, near the city of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, two children were orphaned. Their mother died of illness, his father died in the Patriotic War. In the village, the children were helped as best they could. Nastya was often compared to the Golden Chicken, and Mitrasha was called the Muzhik in a … Read more

Alexander Green Scarlet Sails Longren, a man reserved and unsociable, lived by making and selling models of sailboats and steamships. The countrymen did not really like the former sailor, especially after one incident. Somehow during a cruel storm, the shopkeeper and innkeeper Menners was carried away in his boat far into the sea. The only … Read more

L. N. Tolstoy Morning of the landlord Prince Nekhlyudov was nineteen years old when, from the third year of university, he came to summer vacations to his village and one stayed there all summer. In the autumn he wrote to his aunt, Countess Beloretskaya, who, in his opinion, was his best friend and the most … Read more

GI Uspensky Morals Rasteryaevoy Street In the city of T. on the squalid and dirty Rasteriaev street there are many poor people: small officials, petty bourgeois, craftsmen. Among them – a young pistol master Prokhor Porfirych. He is “of the noble”: the illegitimate son of a master, a police official. But the origin did not … Read more

Mom was going to drink a cold with a cup of tea. An old man looked in, and always had a fairy tale ready for him. When a fairy tale came to the old man suddenly, branches of an elder stood out from under the lid of the kettle, and from them a tender old … Read more

In the early spring of 1888, Dr. Watson invites Sherlock Holmes to a walk in the park. Upon their return to Baker Street, they learn from the footman boy that they were visited by a very nervous gentleman who, having waited a while for Holmes, left the house, promising to return soon. The nervous visitor … Read more

F. Durrenmatt Visit of the old lady The action takes place in the provincial Swiss town of Güllen in the 50’s. XX century. In the town comes the old multimillionaire Clara Tsakhanassyan, a nee Vesher, a former resident of Gullen. At one time several industrial enterprises worked in the town, but one by one they … Read more

Friedrich Schiller Wilhelm Tell The play takes place in three “forest cantons” – Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden, which, united in 1291, formed the basis of the Swiss Union in the struggle against the Austrian domination of the Habsburgs. It is hard for ordinary people who suffer from arbitrariness of the governors of the Austrian emperor … Read more

AI Kuprin Sulamith The main characters of the story are the king of Persia Solomon and his beloved Sulamith. The story consists of twelve parts. The first part depicts before the reader Persia during the reign of Solomon, tells of Solomon and his deeds. The king was about forty-five years old, when the fame of … Read more

Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov (Kirghiz Chynyz Torekulovich Aitmatov) (December 12, 1928, Sheker, Kirghizia – June 10, 2008, Nuremberg, Germany) is a Kyrgyz Soviet writer who wrote in Kyrgyz and Russian languages, the People’s writer of the Kirghiz SSR (1974), Hero of the Socialist Labor (1978). Member of the CPSU since 1959. He was born in 1928 … Read more

The life of Baden-Baden, a fashionable German resort, on August 10, 1862, differed little from life on other days of the season. The audience was cheerful and colorful. However, it was not difficult to single out our compatriots in it, especially near the “Russian tree”. It was here, at Weber’s coffeehouse, Litvinov’s Moscow acquaintance Bambaev … Read more