Several years have passed. The hero works for glossy magazines. His life is empty. There are no friends, women come and go. He remembers his Friend and decides to find her. For this, the hero again goes to the hotel “Dolphin”. But everything changed there, as if by magic. In place of the old hotel … Read more
(born 1918) Granin (real name – Herman) Daniil Alexandrovich (born in 1918), prose writer. He was born on January 1 in the town of Volyn in the family of a forester. After graduation he entered the electromechanical faculty of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, which he graduated in 1940. He worked as a senior engineer at … Read more
In the summer I learned to swim. This happened in the south, in the Crimea in the city of Feodosia, where we all went to rest. Before that, I did not know how to swim at all. So when we went to the beach, I only looked enviously at the other guys who happily splashed … Read more
The most famous story Garshin. Not being strictly autobiographical, he nevertheless absorbed the personal experience of the writer, suffering from manic-depressive psychosis and suffered an acute form of the disease in 1880. A new patient is brought to the provincial psychiatric hospital. He buen, and the doctor can not remove the severity of the attack. … Read more
The action takes place in Aulis, in the camp of Agamemnon. The yearning king awakens the faithful servant of Arkas. He is extremely surprised by the dejected kind of his master: the descendant of the gods Agamemnon favors in everything – not without reason his daughter wants to marry the unshakable warrior Achilles, the most … Read more
O light and brightly decorated Russian land! Many beauties you deprive: many lakes, you divide by rivers and sources of local people, the mountains are steep, the hills are high, the oak forests are frequent, the fields are marvelous, the beasts are different, the birds are countless, great cities, marvelous villages, honest noblemen, the Russian … Read more
That’s it, the anthem of fidelity is called the story “White Bim Black Ear”, written by Gabriel Troepolsky. And this hymn is sung to a dog, a being who is capable of such love and devotion that not everyone can do. Somehow it was led that under the expression “a friend of a man” all … Read more
Unrecognized, invisible, intangible part of a person. For thousands of years, the world’s minds have been arguing about what a soul is! Is this God’s gift or a banal awareness of oneself as a person with an emotional background? Many reject this reality and repeat it in public that the soul is a myth and … Read more
Astrakhan Tsar Timur, his family and power suffered a terrible misfortune: the ferocious sultan of Khorezm defeated the Astrakhan army and, bursting into a defenseless city, ordered the capture and execution of Timur, his wife Elmaz and son Calaf. That under the guise of commoners managed to escape to neighboring lands, but there they were … Read more
The picture is written, or, at any rate, finished by Velasquez in 1629. In this picture, the creative independence of the artist is revealed. His idea is bold and unusual. The painting written on the mythological plot is completely unlike any of Rubens’s works with their stormy, sensual elements, or the bacchanalia of Nicolas Poussin … Read more