The Painting by Brueghel “The Tower of Babel”

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1. Summary At the foot of the Tower of Babel Sigurd Hel At the foot of the Tower of Babel Norway, 50’s. Ten years have passed since the end of the Second World War, abruptly changed the fate of many Norwegians. Heroes of the novel – economist Ergen Bremer, painter Andreas Dühring, journalist Jens Tofte and translator Klaus Tangen – participated in the Resistance movement, […]...
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3. Biography Babel Isaak Emmanuilovich (1894 – 1940) Russian Soviet writer. July 1, 1894 was born in Odessa in the family of a Jewish trader. The first stories were published in the journal “Letopis”. Then, on the advice of M. Gorky, he “went into the people” and changed several professions. Chiefs in the Soviet bodies, work from October 1917 to […]...
4. Painting Dali “Towers” . Before writing the painting, Brueghel visited Rome, which explains the similarity of the tower to the Colosseum, built according to the principle of order superposition, when each new floor is built in a new style. In the picture we see that the seven floors of the Tower are already erected. Below, small as ants, […]...
5. Biography of Isaac Babel A Ukrainian with Jewish roots Isaac Babel, whose stories about the Russian army and life in the ghetto made him a popular author in the 1920s, compromised his credibility with the Soviet authorities and was executed in 1940. General information Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel was born in a family of Jews on July 13, 1894 in […]...
6. How I learned to jump from the tower You can learn anything by overcoming some difficulties: laziness, fear, weakness. I remember how I learned to jump from the tower. It was in the summer with my grandmother in the village. On the river that runs near the village, there is a low tower for jumping. It was made especially for tourists, because there […]...
7. The Painting Savrasov “Sukharev Tower Moscow” Soon on our website (“Secret Pages of Russian Painting”): “Unfavorable life circumstances forced Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin to lose 20 years of artistic life, but despite this, he took a worthy place among the best Russian and foreign painters. Tropinin was never abroad, and he developed his talent by studying nature, living mainly in Little Russia, […]...
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13. The composition of Perov’s painting “The Sleeping Children” The picture “Sleeping children” great painter Vasily Grigorievich Perov wrote in the distant 1870. The famous canvas is among the best works of the author and is highly regarded all over the world, both by art connoisseurs and professional critics. The picture is written quite simply, without superfluous delights. Given the style of writing, the […]...
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21. Summary The Cavalry Isaac Babel I. E. Babel Cavalry My first goose Correspondent of the newspaper “Red Cavalryman” Liutov (narrator and lyrical hero) is in the ranks of the First Cavalry Army headed by S. Budyonny. The First Horse, fighting with the Poles, makes a trek through Western Ukraine and Galicia. Among the gunmen, Liutov is a stranger. Ochkarik, an […]...
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33. Short story Odessa stories Babel IE Babel Odessa stories The King Barely ended the wedding and began to prepare for a wedding dinner, as a Moldovan raider Bene Creek nicknamed King comes an unfamiliar young man and reports that a new bailiff has arrived and Benya is preparing a round-up. The king replies that he knows about the bailiff, and […]...
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