I was born on the land of Ukraine, I live in Ukraine and I hope, I will die here. There are people I love. Then my family, my friends, the graves of my loved ones. Ukraine is my Motherland. And I love her, bad or good, poor or rich. Let not quite smoothly, she has … Read more
Philip Bedrosovich Kirkorov is a singer, composer, actor, People’s Artist of Russia and Ukraine. Born Philippe April 30, 1967 in Varna, Bulgaria, in the family of the singer. From an early age, Philip Kirkorov in his biography went on tour – with his parents, and he dreamed of his own career as a singer. He … Read more
The kingdom of peace, good and mutual understanding will come only in a society of highly moral people. The concept of morality includes the rules of conduct, spiritual and spiritual qualities necessary for a person in society, as well as compliance with these rules. The ability to live with other people is determined by morality, … Read more
Every person, I think, should have a favorite literary hero, which he constantly remembers, tries to be not like him. Talking about your favorite hero is best when he made an unforgettable impression, left a deep mark in memory. I believe that my favorite hero is a person who treats people kindly, with kindness and … Read more
Folklore motifs in Lermontov’s creative work occupy a special niche, although they are not often spoken about. However, in his main poem dedicated to the Russian Federation, Lermontov most “dear heart” calls just the people’s Russia, with its uneasy, harsh, but truly Russian way of life. To the old times and people’s rites Lermontov had … Read more
English engineer William Perry, generously rewarded by the Russian Tsar Peter for diligence in arranging locks on the Voronezh River, with a letter calling his brother Bertrand to Russia for the execution of a new tsar’s plan – the creation of a continuous navigable passage between Don and Oko. There are big sluice and channel … Read more
Our city park is small, but very beautiful. At the entrance there are large flower beds of different forms, from early spring until late autumn they are covered with a bright floral carpet. Especially beautiful this carpet now, in the summer: here and white, and red, and yellow, and blue flowers. It is worth fading … Read more
Almost every day off we spend in the forest, where our family has its own treasured paths. Entering the forest, we greet the familiar trees. We even gave names to trees that we loved. The age-old oak-bogatyr bears the name of the fairy-tale king Berendey, the birch tree is called the Snow Maiden. But the … Read more
Book One Part one I The author tells how among the Don Cossacks in the Tatarsky farm appeared a kind of Melekhovs, nicknamed the Turks. This family went from Prokofiy Melekhov, who started a Turkish wife. The locals recognized her as a witch and tried to kill her. Dying, the woman gave birth to a … Read more
(1863-1949) Serafimovich (real name – Popov) Alexander Serafimovich (1863 – 1949), the prose writer. He was born on January 7 (19th century) in the village of Nizhne-Kurmoyarsk. Areas of the Don Army, in the family of the Cossack captain. He spent his childhood in the Cossack regiments in Poland. In 1873 the family returned to … Read more
Water covers about 70% of the Earth’s surface. This is a very important resource for people and the environment. One of the most acute problems of modern life is pollution and especially water pollution. Many people can not drink water from the rivers near which they live, and also drink tap water, because most of … Read more
The hero of the novel is Fyodor Konstantinovich Godunov-Cherdyntsev, the Russian emigre, the son of the famous entomologist, the son of an aristocratic family-is suffering in Berlin in the second half of the 1920s. earning private lessons and publishing in Russian newspapers nostalgic twelve about childhood in Russia. He feels a huge literary potential, he … Read more
How many people lived in the world, so many they supported these traditions, and besides created new ones. Such as, for example, the tradition of respect for elders. And it seems to me that she appeared somehow by herself, just during the conversation. Respect for elders is not a ritual that repeats only a few … Read more
Isadora Duncan – American dancer, was born in San Francisco. In the biography of Isadora Duncan was a great success, when she first created a dance based on Greek classical art. In Budapest, Berlin, London and New York, she was an incredible success. The innovator, the discoverer, freed from the binding movements, she was absorbed … Read more
On the Epiphany evening, the girls would guess: taking off her slipper, they threw him at the gate. So they tried to find out their fate, to guess the betrothed. And only Svetlana among the merry girls is sad and silent, only she does not guess and does not sing. Darling has gone far, a … Read more
The process of including a student in a system of collective relations is complex, ambiguous, often contradictory and deeply individual. Schoolchildren-future members of the collective differ from each other in health status, appearance, character traits, a degree of sociability, knowledge, skills, many other traits and qualities. Therefore, they enter differently into the system of collective … Read more
In the Russian people they say: “Life to live is not a field to cross”, thereby emphasizing how difficult is human life, how difficult its steep turns may turn out to be. And at each of these turns a person can fall into a situation when the strong-willed qualities of character – courage, determination, courage … Read more
Natalia Sergeevna Bondarchuk is an actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, director, screenwriter. Natalia was born on May 10, 1950 in Moscow to a well-known family. Her father is the famous director Sergei Bondarchuk, and her mother is the actress Inna Makarova. Fedor and Alena Bondarchuk – brother and sister of Natalia on the father. … Read more
Modern Russian literature – a phenomenon little-known. But from this it does not become less interesting, on the contrary, the unknownness of today’s art space raises interest much more than, for example, literature of the 19th century. How can you characterize the literary process of recent decades? Some speak of the heyday of postmodernism. But, … Read more
From time immemorial people built special rooms – churches – to perform religious rituals. The appearance of such structures differs significantly from other structures. So, the Orthodox church is crowned by a sphere – a dome symbolizing the sky. On the dome is a head with a cross above it. Above the entrance to the … Read more
(1867-1945) Veresaev (real name – Smidovich) Vikenty Vikentievich (1867 – 1945), writer, literary critic, critic. He was born on January 4 (16th century) in Tula in the family of a doctor who was very popular both as a doctor and as a public figure. In this friendly family there were eight children. Studied Veresaev in … Read more
Nineteen-year-old Mable Dunchen, accompanied by his uncle – the old seaman Cap – and two Indians (Fowling Arrow and his wife, the June Dew) have been for many days making their way through the endless American jungle from New York to a small English fortress on the shore of Lake Ontario. They keep the path … Read more
I love my grandmother and spend the whole weekend with her. The grandmother is small on growth, thin, with blue veins on a neck and arms or hand. The facial features are expressive, clearly delineated, and correct. They point out that before she was beautiful. I especially like her eyes. In her eyes, there was … Read more
Galina Leonidovna Brezhneva – daughter of General Secretary Brezhnev. She was born in the city of Sverdlovsk in the family of Victoria Petrovna, Leonid Brezhnev. Galina Brezhneva aspired to become an actress, but on the instructions of her father entered the Dnepropetrovsk State University, the Faculty of Philology. She also studied at the University of … Read more
Sir Donald George Bradman is an Australian cricketer, was born in the city of Cootamundra. Sir Donald George Bradman is best known as one of the greatest cricket players, and also as an outstanding athlete. His career as a player in cricket lasted 20 years, and began in 1928. It was then that Bradman joined … Read more
The year 1910. Leo Tolstoy died. The teacher of the literature of the Odessa Gymnasium Vasily Petrovich Bachey is hotly arguing with the sister of his late wife Tatyana Ivanovna about the attitude of the tsarist government to the great writer. He decides to read the report on Tolstoy, in which he will tell about … Read more
Prince Vladimir has a feast with a mountain. Princes, boyars and heroes, having been fed up and drunk, are boasting before each other: some – wealth, others – force, merchants – goods, boyars – estates and fiefdoms. Danila Denisievich does not boast alone. Prince Vladimir asks him whether he is silent because he has nothing … Read more
Kurt Vonnegut Cradle for a cat “You can call me Iona” – such a phrase opens a novel. The hero-narrator believes that this name is much more suitable for him than the one given at birth, for he “always somewhere brings”. One day he planned to write a book “The Day the End of the … Read more
Every summer, my family and I move to live in the village for several months. It’s a pity, of course, to leave the city, where all school friends remain, but I never ask you to leave me at home. There is nothing more beautiful than village life! Wake up early in the morning, have breakfast … Read more
(1899 – 1983) Surkov Alexey Alexandrovich (1.10.1899, the village of Sereznevo, Rybinsk district of Yaroslavl province – 14.6.1983), poet, public figure, lieutenant colonel (1943), Hero of Socialist Labor (1969), twice winner of the Stalin Prize (1946, 1951). Educated at the Literary Department of the Institute of Red Professors (1934). Participant of the Civil and Soviet-Finnish … Read more
The Intercession Cathedral, “that on the moat,” or St. Basil’s Cathedral, is an outstanding monument of Russian architecture. It was built in the middle of the XVI century by the ingenious Russian architects Barma and Postnik according to the royal decree of Ivan the Terrible, who decided to erect this cathedral in memory of the … Read more
In the city of T. on the shabby and dirty Rasteriaev street there live many poor people: petty 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 make Prohor’s life easier. Glafira, … Read more
1. What processes form the relief of the east of the continent? To answer this question, you need to compare two maps – a map of the structure of the earth’s crust and a map of the modern relief. Look at these maps and compare the structure of the earth’s crust in the east and … Read more
Over 1 billion people live on the coast of the Indian Ocean. In the northern regions, industrial fishing is developing, it is 5% of the world. Since ancient times in the Indian Ocean, especially in the Persian Gulf, around the island of Sri Lanka, pearls have been mined. On the beaches of the Indian Peninsula, … Read more
(p. 1927) Zhukov Dmitry Anatolyevich – novelist, literary critic, translator. He was born on August 20, 1927 in Grozny in the family of an oil engineer. A descendant of an ancient noble family, who gave Russia a voivode, governors, governors, diplomats and writers. In December 1944 he voluntarily joined the ranks of the Soviet Army. … Read more
The “Great Bharat” is an ancient Indian epic consisting of approximately one hundred thousand couplets-schloks, divided into 18 books, and includes many false episodes, one way or another related to the main narrative. In the city of Hastinapur, the capital of the country of Bharat, the mighty sovereign Pandu reigned. By the curse of a … Read more
Young and ambitious Julien Sorel seeks to make a career in a brutal, hostile society. To achieve this goal, he has no means and possibilities, except hypocrisy, whose “art” he is compelled to master in order to adapt to the hated environment. Constantly feeling surrounded by enemies, Julien closely monitors each step, acts all the … Read more
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Comic opera in four acts (five scenes) Libretto by A. Gozenpud Characters: Petruccio, a nobleman from Verona Baptista Manola, rich merchant Baritone Bass Katharina Bianca } His daughter Soprano Soprano Lucentio Hortensio } Lovers in Bianca Tenor Bass Gromio Curtis } Servants of Petruccio Bass Tenor Biondello, Baptist servant Tailor … Read more
A young woman complains to the kuma that her elderly husband is not able to extinguish the flame of her love passion. Kuma advises her to seek solace on the side and have a lover. Their conversation is eavesdropped by a monk, Brother Gilbert, a libertine and voluptuary. He offers the old man’s wife his … Read more
Charles Perrault Cinderella The new wife of the respectable man disliked his kind and beautiful daughter. Father girl stepmother kept under his heel, so Cinderella, for which there was no one to intercede, was with the evil woman and her two daughters as a servant, and spent all her free time on the ash box. … Read more
We love to bathe and sunbathe with the guys from our yard on a lake located in one of the suburbs. There we go on bicycles. First we go on the highway, then we turn off on the road – a dirt road. We are not in a hurry, we are admiring the surrounding beauty, … Read more
What makes a person different from other creatures on earth? The fact that when creating a person, God gave him the mind, the soul, and also the Creator made him free. Free in his choice. The problem of choice is the most important in the life of any person. As it is sung in one … Read more
A person is called the tip of the perfection of nature. However, not everyone can be called the crowning achievement of the mother of nature, because his actions violate the norms and morals of society. Let’s talk about how to become a real, good person and consider the inherent qualities of it in more detail. … Read more
Leighton Hewitt is a tennis player, was born in Adelaide, Australia. The biography of Leighton Hewitt is best known as the biography of the winner of the 2001 US Championship. Leighton took up professional tennis in 1998, immediately winning his first competition. His long blond hair, daring style reminded many young Andre Agassi. And Hewitt … Read more
One day in August a person goes on a three-day vacation to replenish his collection of insects with rare species found in the sands. He gets on the train to station S, transits to the bus and, getting off at the last stop, goes on foot. He passes the village and goes by the sandy … Read more
Terkin is killed in battle. It’s clean, it looks like a subway. The commandant orders Terkin to get formalized. Account table, check table, table. At Turkin they demand a certificate, they require a photo card, a certificate from a doctor. Terkin undergoes medical treatment. Everywhere pointers, inscriptions, tables. There are no complaints here. The editor … Read more
Each person has the ability and inclinations, his faith and spiritual values, occupies a certain position in society, works better or worse, acquires – due to natural abilities or his own choice – those or other features that distinguish him from other people. So, each person is unique and unique. Therefore, although we are all … Read more
In the life of each person, there is one on what you want to be like. It can be a pop star, a famous scientist or character from some book. A person who has those character traits that you seek to surprise in yourself. My hero, who changed my view of life – the legendary … Read more
Timur was born into the family of a Mongolian nobleman. He grew up brave and strong warrior. At the age of 26, due to injury, he became a cripple: his right leg did not bend at the knee, and his arm – at the elbow. Since then, Timur was called the “Iron Lame” – Tamerlane. … Read more
Milton Berle is a comedian, was born on July 12, 1908. Berl is best known as “Mr. TV” of the 1950s. At birth, he was named Mendel Berlinger. Milton Berle was one of the first superstars of television, the undisputed king of humor. His show-variety show “Texaco Star Theater” went from 1948 to 1956, led … Read more