Warm and joyful, bringing renewal to all nature, summer rain is a long-awaited and incredibly pleasant phenomenon for the forests and fields exhausted by the heat, dusty streets and houses. Noisy summer rain is superfluous and cunning, but its imaginary severity instantly melts, giving off life-giving moisture to everyone who craves its healing power. The … Read more
Every morning, waking up, I go to the window and look through it. I see poplars, a neighbor feeding pigeons, people hurrying about their business, white swirling clouds. Looking at this familiar picture, with these familiar things, I gradually realize that my house is not restricted by walls, that everything that I see and even … Read more
Saul Bellow Duke Fifty-year-old professor of history and literature Moses Herzog wrote letters, wrote decisively to everyone in the world – people personally familiar and unfamiliar, living and deceased, relatives of former and existing, thinkers and presidents, publishers and fellow workers, church leaders and so on, to no one specifically, and then, happened, to himself … Read more
The action takes place in the 1850s. On the Texas prairie there are vans going – it’s moving from Louisiana to Texas, the ruined planter Woodley Poindexter. He is accompanied by Henry’s son, daughter Louise and nephew, retired captain Cassius Colhoun. Suddenly they lose track – before them scorched prairies. The path of the caravan … Read more
It was a long time ago, maybe forty years ago. In the early autumn, I returned from fishing on a mown meadow and near a small, dried-up boschazhina, overgrown with a tamnik, over a summer, I saw a bird. She heard me, sat down in a sloping bristle of sedge, hid, but my eye felt, … Read more
The action takes place in London, at the end of the XIX century Mr. Utterson, a notary, was a self-contained man, taciturn and awkward in society, and yet very sympathetic. He was strict with himself, but he showed indulgence to the weaknesses of his neighbors, preferring to help, not to blame. So he often had … Read more
War. Just a word. Five letters. But how many associations awaken in us it! Pain, heroism, patriotism, longing for close ones, hatred and love. What is war? Why does it affect a person so much? To understand this issue, I decided to look into the history of mankind. Once upon a time war was for … Read more
Serov wrote many portraits of famous personalities of the time. For each, he chose the situation and a certain position. The artist does not have similar paintings, he treated his every posing person in his own way. He was able to convey the inner world and the mood of man with the help of canvas … Read more
Each nation has its own unique language. And each of them is good and beautiful in its own way. With the help of the language, people can communicate among themselves, transmit information and cultural heritage, learn new things, advance science. The level of technical, spiritual and cultural development that we managed to achieve today would … Read more
(river 15.06.1939) Kim Anatoly Andreyevich was born on June 15, 1939 in the village of Sergievka of the Kazakh SSR. His Korean ancestors lived in Russia from the middle of the XIX century; his father taught Russian at school, and his mother was Korean. He studied at the Moscow Art College in memory of 1905, … Read more