Act One In the former rich mansion there is a committee. The message is received by the Reds about the fact that White already has the Zheglov Bridge. The commanders are going to the meeting. And at this time the sailor Shvandya spoke to the typist Panova Pavle Petrovna about how he had seen Marx. … Read more
I think that love is one of the most beautiful feelings a person can experience. So what is this feeling, which is not the first century, singing laudatory songs and sending all sorts of curses? I think a person can not live happily without love. It is multi-faceted. We love parents, children, husbands and wives, … Read more
Stephen Geim Agasfer The novel has three storylines: the first is a narrative that is conducted on behalf of the angel Agasphere, whose name means “Beloved of God”; 2 nd – a story about the life path of Paulus von Eichen, a younger contemporary of Martin Luther; 3rd – correspondence between Professor Siegfried Baifus, Director … Read more
In our family there is one tradition: every spring my friends and I go to the forest. When all the snow melted, and the weather became warm, we went to the forest for an overnight stay. With us are only close people with whom we are friends families. We are going to a lot, about … Read more
My favorite season is autumn. I do not know why, but I really like rainy weather, leaf fall, a sad cry of flying birds, the first frosts with their silvery dust on the branches and a thin glacier in the puddles – in short, everything that is understood by the word “autumn”. Of course, autumn … Read more
A. A. Bestuzhev Frigate Hope Captain-Lieutenant Ilya Petrovich Pravin was in love for the first time and with all possible passion. In vain are the anxieties and warnings of friends, and more of all comrade in the naval corps, and now the first lieutenant of his frigate Neil Pavlovich Kakorin. In vain are the intricate … Read more
Saint-Exupery wrote the “Little Prince” shortly before his tragic death. As the poet A. Prasolov says, “individual human souls always publish their last, swan-pure, farewell cry…” This philosophical tale became a testament to the writer’s will to people. Many of her lines entered our life as commandments: “We are responsible for those who have tamed,” … Read more
My favorite season is autumn. I was born in November, maybe, therefore, after the end of the warm days of summer, I’m so pleased to meet the autumn cool gusts of the wind, breathe the air filled with notes of falling leaves and again begin to wait for warmth. In the autumn I often go … Read more
Under the scorching sun of July 1942, the walking steppes of the Donets steppe with their carts, artillery, tanks were retreating units of the Red Army, children’s homes and gardens, cattle, trucks, refugees were moving… But they did not have time to cross the Donets: they left the river part of the German army. And … Read more
The battered Turkin is to the next world. It’s clean, it looks like a subway. The commandant orders Terkin to get formalized. Account table, check table, table. At Turkin they demand a certificate, they require a photo card, a certificate from a doctor. Terkin undergoes medical treatment. Everywhere pointers, inscriptions, tables. There are no complaints … Read more
Neil Armstrong – an astronaut, July 20, 1969 was the first astronaut to set foot on the surface of the moon. He was born on August 5, 1930 in Huapakonetta, Ohio. Biography of Armstrong is best known as the story of the first man to step on the moon. Neil Armstrong was a veteran of … Read more
In order to preserve the memory of the significant events of his life, many people take photographs. With the advent of smartphones, photography was especially easy, because every person is always at hand such a device. I, too, used to like to shoot everything that happens around on a mobile camera, but in most cases … Read more
David Copperfield was born half-orphaned – six months after the death of his father. It so happened that when he was born, his father’s aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood, was present-her marriage was so unfortunate that she became a muzhinenavistnitsey, returned to the girl’s name and settled in the wilderness. Before the nephew’s marriage, she was … Read more
Arthur Conan Doyle is a famous English writer, creator of the image of the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes. Probably, there is no person who in his time did not read the stories about Sherlock Holmes. In all these stories, most striking is the detective’s logic, his ability to build a logical chain, not missing any, … Read more
Robert Musil Man without properties Book 1. Part 1. My own Introduction The novel takes place in Vienna in 1913. The main character, the thirty-two-year-old Ulrich, a mathematician and an exalted dreamer, an intellectual and a cynic, already tired of himself and of the world, lives a bright but disorderly life. He does not have … Read more
Asked by the question “What does it mean to be a modern person?”, I decided to do a little research. My goal was to reveal the main features of my contemporaries and, in the end, portray a portrait of a modern person. But, a little closer to the people around me, I realized that the … Read more
Reading the story of Nikolai Leskov “The Old Genius”, I thought: nothing has changed in Russia in two hundred years. How the rich offended the poor, and offended. How to live in luxury impudent “majors”, and live. How grandmothers went to officials a hundred times, so they go. And as the police said: “look for … Read more
In the family, our parents teach us to be just, kind. But, unfortunately, this quality does not always depend on you, but can depend on what is happening around us. Goodness is a concept, of our education, which characterizes us on the positive side. In our difficult times, when the whole world is governed by … Read more
People and animals are closely related. Animals are our friends. But mankind sometimes destroys them both for fun, and sometimes for additional material incomes. Because of this, populations of different species decrease. Animals fall into the red book, are on the verge of extinction. The relationship between man and animals has always been. Almost almost … Read more
Among Africa, Australia and South America, North America is second only to South America in terms of the density of the river network and the number of rivers, lakes and marshes. However, due to the heterogeneity of the climate, they are unevenly distributed. The rivers of North America belong to the Atlantic basins. Pacific and … Read more
The scene of action is Britain. The time of action is the 11th century. The powerful King Lear, feeling the approach of old age, decides to shift the burden of power on the shoulders of three daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, sharing their kingdom between them. The king wants to hear from his daughters how … Read more
1. What icons were created in Cossack times? Created icons and Cossack times. During the second half of the 17-18 centuries. especially popular in Ukraine was the icon of the Pokrov. In the lower part of these icons there were images of representatives of the Cossack sergeant, the atamans, the hetmans. The Mother of God … Read more
The main heroine of the story – Vera Nikolayevna Sheina, the wife of the nobility leader – had a pleasant time with Anna’s sister’s company at her seaside dacha, waiting for the imminent holiday. On the name day, not many guests gathered, all good friends and relatives. One event knocked Shane out of the rut: … Read more
The picture “Birch Grove” Isaak Levitan wrote four years. The main characters of the picture are white-birch birches. Long work on the picture is not accidental. The author perfectly knew with what tenderness the birch belongs to the Russian people. Our ancestors used this tree for numerous rituals. Birches were sung by poets. The picture … Read more
From the pages of this parable and breathes humanity and kindness. Indeed, a person endowed with reason simply does not have the right to be indifferent to the fate of our smaller brothers. And if you can not take a homeless kitten home, at least feed him. The main characters are Akbar and Tashchynar – … Read more
In the second half of the XIV century. The Russian princes had already acted harmoniously against the Horde. In 1378, the military forces of the Moscow and Ryazan principalities, led by the Moscow prince Dmitry Ivanovich, inflicted the first military defeat on the territory of Ryazansky Tatars. But the great Lithuanian prince Jagiello hurried to … Read more
The fairy tale teaches children good, mutual help, helping each other. Helps children understand why they need to help first the boy, and then think about their desires. On such examples, children learn compassion, empathy for others. And they will treat the weak at school or in the yard not with anger, but as a … Read more
After the end of the Russo-Japanese war, I chose a three-line better and set off from Manchuria to Russia. Pretty soon crossed the Russian border, crossed a ridge and on the shore of the ocean met with a Chinese, a seeker of zhen-shen. Louvain sheltered me in his hiding place, hidden from typhoons in the … Read more
FA Abramov Brothers and sisters Pekashinsky muzhik Stepan Andreyevitch Stavrov cut down the house on the mountainside, in the cool twilight of a huge larch. Yes, not a house – a two-story house with a small side shelter in addition. There was a war. In Pekashino there were old people, children and women. Without a … Read more
There were three famous writers of tragedies in Athens: the elder – Aeschylus, the middle one – Sophocles and the younger – Euripides. Aeschylus was mighty and majestic, Sophocles clear and harmonious, Euripides tense and paradoxical. Once having looked, the Athenian viewers could not forget how Fedra was tormented by his passion for stepchild for … Read more
Doctor Pascal is a sixty-year-old scientist, an innovator, out of his pen are medical works. He is engaged in healing, using his own methods and giving hope to the sick. He is interested in questions of heredity. On the example of his own family, he creates his theory of heredity, based on the data of … Read more
Since ancient times, between people and books, there is a connection that has lasted for more than 2000 years. The books were written on plaques, beaten on stone tiles, in Egypt they wrote on papyrus, folded into scrolls, and in China on the first paper made of rags. The very first books were written more … Read more
The first steps in space exploration were made in the early 30-ies of the century in the works of the founder of astronautics of the Russian scientist Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, who said: “Impossible today will be possible tomorrow.” These words turned out to be prophetic. October 4, 1957 in the USSR was launched the world’s … Read more
On April 15, 1927, in the city of N, the mother-in-law of Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, the former leader of the nobility, dies. Before her death, she informs him that in one of the chairs of the living room, the headset left in Stargorod, where they fled after the revolution, all the family jewels have been … Read more
Behind the garden of the Chinese emperor was a forest, and in the woods there lived a nightingale who sang so well that even a poor fisherman forgot about his seine, but then again took up his business and did not think about the nightingale until the next night. Travelers said that the nightingale is … Read more
Stepan Timofeevich Razin is a Cossack who raised the uprising of 1670-1671. He was born in a Cossack family. Biography of Stepan Razin is reliably known only from the 1660s. By this time, he had become a Cossack ataman, had received a rich military experience. After conducting negotiations with the Kalmyks, in 1662-1663 he conducted … Read more
The execution of Jan Hus overflowed the cup of people’s patience. Numerous supporters of Jan Hus, the Hussites, rebelled. But among the rebels there was no unity. Some, chasniki, demanded permission to all partake of the cup. Others, Taborites, wanted the impossible at all – to build the Kingdom of God on earth. In this … Read more
In the XIII century. In medieval Europe there are heretical movements associated with the emergence and flowering of cities. It was in the cities that the number of educated people increased, able to read religious books and reflect on their content. They understood that the servants of the church did not in any way resemble … Read more
Maxim Gorky Mieschans Vasily Vasilyevich Bessemionov lives in a prosperous house, he is 58, the foreman of the paint shop, who marks a deputy in the city duma from the shop class; Akulina Ivanovna, his wife; son Peter, a former student, expelled for taking part in unlawful student meetings; daughter Tatyana, a schoolteacher who sat … 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 20th 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
The action takes place in the Belarusian village in the mid-thirties. Collectivization has already taken place, a collective farm has been created, so-called kulaks have been dekulakized and deported to immense places, and in fact – strong masters. One of them, Fyodor Rovba, once believed in the revolutionary ideals that the peasant was the true … Read more
First part Winter of 1918. In the center of the post-revolutionary Moscow Peter came across a former classmate and poet von Ernen. He now served in the Cheka and invited an old friend to his huge, confiscated someone’s apartment. Peter admitted that three days ago in St. Petersburg for an abstract poem he wanted to … Read more
From the glorious city of Galich, from the rich land of Volyn, a kind fellow, Dyuk Stepanovich, left to go hunting. But hunting did not work out – for nothing, he shot his expensive arrows. Duke collected all the arrows in the quiver and returned home to Galich, and it was on the Great Saturday. … Read more
THE SPARROW Opera in four acts Libretto by IV Shpazhinsky Characters: Prince Nikita Danilych Kurlyatev, Grand duchess in Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod Princess Eupraxia Romanovna, his wife Knyazhich Yuri, their son Mamyrov, the old clerk Nenila, his sister, the princess’s bed-gown Ivan Juran, prince’s hunter Nastasya, nicknamed Kuma, mistress of the visiting The courtyard of the … Read more
In a provincial town, a young merchant of Bavarian kvass meets a walking woman in the evening. She, drunk, stands in a puddle and stomps her feet, sprinkling mud like children. The trader leads her to her house; she agrees to go with him, thinking that he is her client. “House” is a basement hole … Read more
The action takes place in a provincial town. Victor Alexandrovich Zilov wakes up a phone call. With difficulty waking up, he picks up the phone, but there is silence. He slowly gets up, touching his jaw, opens the window, it’s raining outside. Zilov drinks beer and with a bottle in his hands begins fizzaryadku. Again … Read more
August 1931. From the Mexican port of Veracruz the German passenger steamer “Vera” sails, which in mid-September is due to arrive in Bremerhaven. From the torn by the political passions of Mexico, the ship follows to Germany, where national socialism raises its head. The diverse passenger community – Germans, Swiss, Spanish, Cubans, Americans – together … Read more
The first action. Natasha sits on the bank of the Dnieper in deep thoughtfulness. She is troubled by her heart, and it is not easy for her to listen to the instructions of her father – the old Miller. For several days the Prince, her lover, has not come to Natasha. The miller teaches her … Read more
February 28, 1832 in the life of the writer there was an event that marked the beginning of a “beautiful heart drama”: Balzac unexpectedly received a letter from Odessa with an intriguing signature of “Inostranka”. Soon the writer learned that his correspondent was a Polish aristocrat of Russian citizenship, the Countess Evelina Ghanskaya, the great-granddaughter … Read more
Last year I had a misfortune. I walked along the street, slipped and fell. I fell down unsuccessfully, worse and nowhere: I broke my nose, my hand jumped out of my shoulder, I fell with my whip. It was about seven o’clock in the evening. In the center of the city, on Kirovsky Prospekt, near … Read more