Life has a property to change… But why only life? Everything changes in this world. The cities change, people change, books change, heroes change. Let them say that people do not change. I do not agree: they are still changing, sometimes they do not. Certain circumstances change people internally, and this contributes to external changes. … Read more
A provincial town, a local hospital, an outbuilding for the mentally ill… The condition of this building, and of the hospital itself, is extremely miserable-everything old, half ruined, in the courtyard and in the rooms there is an unbearable stench. In such conditions, there are five residents of Chamber No. 6, the only one in … Read more
In the Overture, which is a prologue to the narrative, the representatives of English society are compared to the heroes of fables, who are old as the world – cowards and braggarts, offenders and their victims, rogues and simpletons. Good and evil are mixed, and the poor man is not necessarily honest, but the rich … Read more
Meeting with a good book for me is one of the most joyful, radiant holidays. “The book is the man’s best friend.” We repeat these words often, but they do not fade with time. On the contrary, they always excite, always sound new and caress the rumor, as the sound of the ringing of the … Read more
Ansel Adams – American photographer, was born in San Francisco. I started to take pictures in the clubs “Sierra” and “Yosemite Valley”. The name of the photographer is primarily associated with these clubs. In 1930, the fascination with photography in the biography of Ansel Adams became professional. In the same year he published the first … Read more
GNVladimov Verny Ruslan The watchdog Ruslan heard how something out of the night outside exhaled, lanterns shook with a gnash. Calmed down only by morning. The master came and took him to the service. But when the door opened, a white bright light suddenly poured into his eyes. Snow – that’s what it got out … Read more
The highest example of realistic art at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was the work of Alexander Kuprin. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin is a well-known Russian prose writer who aspired to update the aesthetic principles of realism in his work. Kuprin, like Ivan Bunin, inherited the “ideological mood” of Anton Chekhov. The writer … Read more
Nikolai Petrovich Krymov is considered one of the best landscape painters of the twentieth century. He paints landscapes of familiar places in such a way that anyone who looks at his picture seems to be not only its spectator, but also a direct participant. One of the artist’s most impressive works is “The Windy Day: … Read more
All people dream of peace on Earth. It still hurts to recall the terrible and terrible events that occurred during the Great Patriotic War. The fascists did not spare anyone, even the helpless old people and children. This is nonhumans, because a person is not capable of such cruelty. There is reliable information about how … Read more
The action takes place in Germany in the eighteenth century, at the court of one of the German Dukes. The son of President von Walther is in love with the daughter of a simple musician, Louise Miller. Her father treats this with disbelief, since the marriage of an aristocrat with a petty bourgeois is impossible. … Read more