How wonderful to have a rest on a hot afternoon in the summer garden! The sun gilds everything around, making its way through the dense green foliage of trees. The branches of the apple tree lean under the weight of red-cheeked fruit. Pour juicy pears. This garden was planted by my grandfather. He marked the … Read more
Music is always present in our life, without it it is difficult to imagine the existence of mankind. But very few people know how music affects a person. However, it is proved that she can change the mood, cheer up or put to sleep. The brain responds to sounds, so their influence is enormous. Often … Read more
The plot of this novel by a well-known Italian writer, philologist and historian of literature falls on the beginning of the seventies of the XX century, a time when youth riots were still raging in Italy. However, the “political choice” of the narrator, a student at the Milan University of Casobone, becomes, in his own … Read more
Quotation from the novel of the Russian writer Tolstoy Leo Nikolayevich (1828 – 1910) “War and Peace” (1863 – 1869 gg.), Volume 3, Part II, XXV. These words are spoken by Andrei Bolkonsky to Pierre Bezukhov on the eve of the battle of Borodino: “Do not take the prisoners,” continued Prince Andrew, “this one would … Read more
Fate… An incomprehensible power that governs life… Probably, it still exists if people from ancient times still believe in it and even try to predict it. What is fate? A series of coincidences, coincidences or something predetermined? Is it worth arguing with fate or better submitting to it submissively? These questions for millennia do not … Read more
If the Earth was always facing the Sun with one side, like the Moon to the Earth, there would not be a change of day and night, summer and winter. There would be two conditional hemispheres – “daylight” and “night”. Life on such a planet would stop. Owing to a sharp change in temperature, the … Read more
Childhood is the most beautiful time in our life. Now, when I’m already in the third grade, I think, but how I would like to return to the kindergarten, where there are no lessons, no homework. After all, we are in a hurry to our life, so that it goes faster, and in fact to … Read more
“A person can be destroyed, but it can not be defeated”. E. Hemingway Ernest Hemingway is a man of amazing destiny, the author of a number of excellent books, among which a special place belongs to the story “The Old Man and the Sea”, created in the middle of the 20th century, in 1952, a … Read more
The apology of the power and greatness of the Moscow kingdom and its head Ivan the Terrible is also characteristic of such a popular monument (more than 230 of its lists have been preserved), like “The History of the Kazan Empire”, or the “Kazan Chronicler”, which describes the fate of the Kazan kingdom since its … Read more
The action takes place in a county town, in the house of merchant Tortsov, during Svyatok. Action first Day. A small steward’s room. In the depths of the door, to the left there is a window, near the window there is a table and a chair, in the corner there is a bed with a … Read more