October was cold and rainy. Katerina Petrovna became very hard to get up in the morning. She lived in an old house, which was built by her father, a famous artist. The building was of cultural value and was under the protection of the regional museum. There was a house in the village of Zaborje. … Read more
What is good? Why do it? You can ask a thousand questions and each will have their own answers to them. I think: “Good is when people help each other to solve different life problems from a pure heart, and we need to do it and even more often than it seems to us so … Read more
Reflections on life, about its meaning, usually appear at the turning points of this life. Now I and my peers have such a time: the stage of life ends when everything was determined in advance, and not by you. It’s time to decide on your own: which way to go next? In which field will … Read more
(17.07.1923 – 19.07.1993) Osetrov Eugene Ivanovich (July 17, 1923, Kostroma – July 19, 1993, Moscow). He grew up in a family of librarians. In 1938, for his first verses, he received a letter signed by K. Chukovsky. In 1941 he was drafted into the army. He fought in the Smolensk region. He served as a … Read more
NV Gogol Old-world landowners Afanasy Ivanovich Tovstogub and his wife Pulcheria Ivanovna live alone in one of the remote villages, called Old Rus in the Little Russia. Their life is so quiet that a guest who has unexpectedly come to a low bar-house, drowning in the greenery of the garden, the passions and unsettling worries … Read more
The problem of people’s indifference to each other. “Indifference is the paralysis of the soul,” wrote the famous Russian writer AP Chekhov. Indeed, sincere callousness is sometimes more painful than anger, hatred, cruelty. In front of me is a fragment from the story of K. G. Paustovsky “Telegram”, in which, in my opinion, the author … Read more
“Sprut” is a work about life and struggle for farmers’ rights of the San Joaquin Valley, created on the basis of a real event – an armed clash between farmers and government officials in the county of Musselslaf in 1880. Poet Presley came from San Francisco to this fertile region, where immense fields of wheat … Read more
Tatyana Navka is a figure skater, Honored Master of Sports. Tatyana was born on April 13, 1975 in Dnepropetrovsk. Tatiana Navka began to skate in her biography as a child. Already in 1980, she seriously engaged in figure skating. After 13 years, she began to compete for Belarus with Samvel Gezalyan. The first sporting achievement … Read more
Only he is worthy of life and freedom, Who every day for them goes to battle. I. Goethe Goethe created his “Faust” throughout his life. Although Goethe did not write Faust for the theater, it is both a tragedy and a philosophical poem. It reflected the search for a whole generation of German philosophical thought. … Read more
Love like madness; love is madness; love, leading to insanity… Perhaps, most brightly this metaphor was embodied in their works by Russian writers of the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries – Bunin and Kuprin. Creativity AI Kuprin permeated with a theme of sincere, pure, radiant love – Love with a capital letter. But … Read more