One of the greatest riches of any nation is its land. It’s not strange, but few people understand that what is meant is not territory, but what lives and breathes on this earth. People also matter, but they can for themselves, just “the crown of creation”, as everyone is used to call homo sapiens, has … Read more
DON CARLOS Opera in five acts (eight scenes) 1 Libretto by J. Meri and C. du Locle in the processing of A. Gislanzoni Characters: Philip II, King of Spain Don Carlos, Spanish Infant Rodrigo, the Marquis de Poza The Grand Inquisitor, The blind ninety-year old man Monk (Emperor Charles V) Elizaveta Valois Princess Eboli Tebaldo, … Read more
Saint-Marie Henri d’Affia, marquis – the organizer of the conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu; historical dates of his life: 1620 – 1642. At the beginning of the novel the young nobleman S.-M. goes from his native province to the court to enter the service of Richelieu, but on the way he witnesses the outrageous arbitrariness and … Read more
The novel is preceded by a letter to the anonymous benefactor “chamberlain and various orders to the knight” in order to draw the reader’s attention to the fact that praise or indignation turns to dust, as well as a person who praises or denigrates this book. The author turns to the reader in verse, urging … Read more
One summer I went to the forest, and this trip was remembered for a long time. Four foxes at the sight of me instantly disappeared into the hole. The fifth, the bravest, let go, and then belligerently yelped and followed their example. I settled down on a tall tree and looked around. Over the sunny … Read more
Maxim Gorky The song about the falcon The sea - a huge, lazy sigh by the shore – fell asleep and motionless in the distance, bathed in blue radiance. It merged with the sky, reflecting its clouds. Ugly curved mountains border the sea, hide the moon. Nadir-Ragim-ogly, an old Crimean shepherd, sighs heavily, lying on … Read more
A. Serafimovich The Iron Stream The novel takes place after the revolution of 1917, during the Civil War. A huge flow of people – either a camp of immigrants, or an army – entered the Cossack village. Cossacks are not alone, only women and children. On the mound near the windmill rally. The people shout, … Read more
The ocean area is 91.7 million km2. The maximum depth is 8742 m. Number of seas -16. The largest seas are Sargasso and the Caribbean. The Mediterranean. The largest bay is Mexican. The largest islands and groups of islands are Great Antilles, Great Britain, Newfoundland, Iceland, Ireland. The most powerful currents are the Gulf Stream, … Read more
When a new face appears in the village – this is considered an event. One summer a new home teacher came to the rich estate of the Islaevs. From the very first day of Alexey Nikolaevich, his pupil Kolya Islaev, who was ten years old, fell in love. The teacher made a bow to him, … Read more
The eastern part of the empires of Charlemagne went to Louis the German as a separate kingdom, uniting the lands of four, in fact independent, duchies: Swabia, Bavaria, Franconia and Saxony. In Germany, the formation of the state takes place in the reign of Otto I, who, after defeating the Hungarians in 955 near Augsburg, … Read more