Essay

On the Feast of the Ascension, at three o’clock in the afternoon, at the Black Gate in Dresden, the student Anselm overturns an enormous basket of apples for his eternal misfortune – and hears terrible curses and threats from the old woman-merchant: “You’ll fall under the glass, under the glass!” Having paid for his oversight … Read more

The mystery, whose action unfolds in the “locality near paradise,” opens the scene of the ascension of prayer to Jehovah. All the few “mankind” participate in the prayer: the Adam and Eve, their sons Cain and Abel, the daughters of Hell and Sella, and the children conceived by the daughters of Adam from his sons, … Read more

They met in December, by accident. When he got to Andrei Bely’s lecture, he roared and laughed so much that she, who happened to be in the chair next to her and at first looked at him with some bewilderment, also laughed. Now every evening he went to her apartment, which she had rented solely … Read more

The story begins with the fact that a certain prince for a long time could not find a suitable girl for himself, namely, a real princess. One day, when he was quite desperate, a storm broke out, and a drenched stranger knocked at the palace, claiming that she was a real princess. The Queen Mother … Read more

Swiss province of the beginning of XX century. A young man named Josef Marty is an assistant in the technical bureau of engineer Karl Tobler. Before entering the new place, Josef had to live a few months without work, so he very much appreciates his current position and tries to be worthy of the hopes … Read more

MM Roshchin Valentin and Valentina The action takes place nowadays in a big city. A room in the style of the fifties. Evening tea. In the chair Valentina’s grandmother, next to Valina’s mother, near the mirror – Zhenya, the elder sister. Waiting for Valya. Mother is indignant. It seems to her that Valya is too … Read more

Working village in Siberia. The first post-war year. The teacher Nadezhda Sergeevna Drozdova, Nadia, a tall, young, beautiful woman with a constant sadness in gray eyes, hears from her husband about some half-crazy Lopatkin. This eccentric, you see, invented a machine for casting cast-iron pipes and tries to introduce it into production, not realizing that … Read more

Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, whose long, fiery curls, combined with a rough chin, suggested the connection of an angel and a monkey, and Gabriel Syme, a young man in a dapper suit, with a graceful blond man, met in the romantic and strange corner of London, called Saffron Park. a beard and a poet … Read more