The scene of action is Bonn, the time of action roughly coincides with the date of creation of the novel. The very narrative is a long monologue by Hans Schnir, a comic actor or, more simply, a clown. Hans is twenty-seven years old, and he recently survived the heaviest blow of fate – he left … Read more
Joe DiMaggio is a baseball player, born November 25, 1914 in the city of Martinez, California, died in 1999 of cancer. Best known as “Joltin ‘Joe” – the legendary center player of the Yankees. Joe DiMaggio is noted as one of the most gifted sluggers in baseball history. Ted Williams once called him “the greatest … Read more
Valentin Iosifovich Khabarov, a Soviet artist, a recognized master-portraitist. The merit of a talented master is that he can show a whole epoch through a portrait, than people lived and breathed at that time. “Portrait of Mila” was written in 1970, he is from a recent past, and nowadays books are not so enthusiastically read … Read more
Material on the history of Emelian Pugachev, belonging to AS Pushkin, was collected for a long time. He was interested in the question of the largest uprising of the people on the territory of the Russian Empire. In the novel entitled “The Captain’s Daughter” on the basis of historical material, the destiny of the Russian … Read more
The street wakes up. For the present it is still, only a little audible the wind rustles the foliage of the trees and sings its morning song Ptah. The first is the janitor, then there are rare passers-by, sometimes there is a rustling of the tires departing from the entrance of the car. But here … Read more
Chapter first The portrait of the main character – Eugene Onegin, his brief biography, a description of habits and inclinations is given. Briefly shows his usual pastime. The author outlines the customs of the “high society” and tells how Onegin, not finding himself in the hectic life of St. Petersburg, fell ill with one of … Read more
Popkov Viktor Yefimovich worked in the second half of the twentieth century. The main theme of his work was the generation of people, whose fate reflected the Great Patriotic War. Therefore, most of his paintings look rather gloomy. Harsh faces, dark colors, laconicism and simplicity – all this about the works of Viktor Popkov. “Autumn … Read more
Arthur Schopenhauer is a German philosopher. Schopenhauer was born in Danzig on February 22, 1788 in a cultural merchant family. At the age of nine, a transfer to France took place in the biography of Arthur Schopenhauer. Education future philosopher began in the Rungen gymnasium in 1799. In 1803 he did not spend much time … Read more
The literature about the war is the memory of the people about the terrible and tragic years. This memory carries in itself the stories of VV Bykov, BL Vasilyev, AI Adamovich, and many other works. The books on the war remind us of the price at which the victory was won, and in what difficult … Read more
Vladislav Doronin is an entrepreneur, one of the owners, and also the chairman of the Board of Directors of Capital Group. Vladislav Doronin was born in Leningrad in 1962. About the early years of life and education in the biography of Vladislav Doronin little is known. Business Doronin engaged in the 1990’s. At the beginning … Read more