This tank left us relatives, leaving for a long business trip. I did not buy fish myself, I was not even trusted to take care of the aquarium. But no one objected when I spent an hour or more sitting next to him, watching the unfamiliar water world and imagining what kind of life there … Read more
Senka Shaly decided to change his life. Enough. To him already soon twenty-six – all youth in the sea remained. In the army in the navy he served, demobilized, decided before returning home to earn extra money in the sea, and so he remained on the Atlantic as a “seagull” sailor. His marine life was … Read more
It was arranged, especially the daughter-in-law – after all she did not see anything further than her nose! Seijuro decided to steal ONATSu and flee with her to Kyoto, they hurried to seize the boat, sailing away before sunset. They only sailed in a boat full of all the people-there was a salesman, a soothsayer, … Read more
IV Goethe Faust The tragedy is opened with three introductory texts. The first is a lyrical dedication to friends of youth – those with whom the author was associated in the beginning of work on “Faust” and who has already died or is in the distance. “I again remember everyone who lived that radiant at … Read more
(1892 – 1968) Paustovsky Konstantin Georgievich (1892 – 1968), the prose writer. Born May 19 (31 N. s.) In Moscow in Granatny Lane, the family of railway statistics, but, despite the profession, an incorrigible dreamer. The family loved the theater, sang a lot, played the piano. He studied in Kiev in the classical gymnasium, where … Read more
The great Russian painter Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich was born on January 25, 1832 in the city of Elabuga. in the merchant family. He showed the ability to landscape painting and Shishkin, while studying at the Academy of Painting in St. Petersburg, was awarded a small silver medal for “View in the vicinity of St. Petersburg.” … Read more
Longren, a closed and unsociable man, lived by making and selling models of sailboats and steamships. The countrymen did not really like the former sailor, especially after one incident. Somehow during a cruel storm, the shopkeeper and innkeeper Menners was carried away in his boat far into the sea. The only witness to what was … Read more
The action takes place at the beginning of the XX century. Nine-year-old Philip Carey remains an orphan, and he is sent for education to his uncle-priest in Blackstable. The priest does not feel affection for his nephew, but in his house Philip finds many books that help him forget about loneliness. At school, where the … Read more
MA Sholokhov Quiet Don After the end of the penultimate Turkish campaign, the Cossack Prokofiy Melekhov led a captive Turkish woman home to the village of Veshenskaya. From their marriage a son was born, named Pantelei, as dark and black-eyed as his mother. Subsequently, Pantelei Prokofievich occupied himself with the arrangement of the economy and … Read more
JF Cooper Pioneers, or At the Beginnings of Susquehanne Early December Evening of 1793 Horses slowly pull up big sledges uphill. In the sledge, father and daughter are Judge Marmaduke Temple and Miss Elizabeth. The judge is one of the first settlers; one of those thanks to which this newly wilderness has changed. There were … Read more