: The storyteller looks at the school photograph and recalls a childhood friend, grandmother, native hut, dispossession, village life and the family of young teachers who organized a school in his remote village. The narration is conducted on behalf of the matured Viti, in which Victor Astafyev himself guesses.
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Ivan Petrovich, a twenty-four-year-old novice writer, in search of a new apartment meets a strange old man with a dog on St. Petersburg street. Impossibly thin, in rags, he used to sit for hours in Miller's pastry shop near Voznesensky Prospekt, basking in the stove and staring dead ...
“The Great Battle of Bharats” is an ancient Indian epic consisting of approximately one hundred thousand slavic couplets divided into 18 books and including many inserted episodes (myths, legends, parables, teachings, etc.) related in one way or another the main narrative. In the city of Hastinapur, the capital ...
Five days a man goes deep into the southeastern steppe of the Soviet Union. On the way, he imagines himself either as a steam engine driver, or as a geologist-prospector, or “another organized professional being - just to occupy his head with an uninterrupted thought and distract the longing from his heart” and reflects on the reconstruction ...
(334 words) The Silver Age for Russian culture is the heyday of Russian poetry. At this time, there are such literary movements that are still heard today: symbolism, acmeism, futurism, imagism and others. During this period, such great poets became known. ...
Once Yermolai suggested that I go to Lgov - to hunt ducks. Lgov is a large village on the swampy river Rosota. 5 miles from Lgov this river turns into a wide pond, overgrown with dense reeds. Countless ducks of all possible breeds have been found on this pond. To hunt on this pond ...
(400 words) “Hero of our time” is a psychological novel in which M. Yu. Lermontov depicted the story of one human soul. The author himself in the preface to the work made it clear to the reader that Pechorin is a collective character who embodies "the vices of our entire generation, in full ...
Canteen. Laid table with appetizer. The action takes place on the estate of the leader of the local nobility. Nikolai Ivanovich Balagolaev invited one of the neighbors, a judge and a former leader, in the morning to resolve the dispute between Kaurova, the 45-year-old widow of the second lieutenant, and her brother, landowner Ferapont Bespandin, ...
Each character of the play “At the Bottom” is an indicator of the state of a certain layer of society in tsarist Russia, therefore, to understand the book, it is very important to know the history of each character. Mikhail Ivanov Kostylev. 54 years old, landlord keeper. The husband of Vasilisa Karpovna. Mercantilen. The past is unknown....
The history of our country is filled with wars and bloodshed, and many writers touched on this topic in their books, showing that no difficulties can break the spirit of Russian people. One of these works was Tolstoy’s short story “Prisoner of the Caucasus”, based precisely on the confrontation ...
The story of Gogol “About how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich” is included in the collection “Mirgorod”. The work is written easily, ironically. It would seem that a trifle is an insulting word! But how many troubles came out of it. Looking at the characters, you involuntarily begin to notice - how often are we ...
Turgenev's works are saturated with various events, where every action and detail plays an important role. And sometimes there is not enough time to read the story again or find a certain moment. That is why there is a brief retelling of the story "Asya" in chapters to remind the student of what they read....
A young girl, Carol Milford, graduates from Blodget College in St. Paul and thinks about what noble occupation she should devote her life to. She intends in any business, no matter what she does, to achieve significant results. First, she worked for a year in Chicago, in the city library, then ...
(418 words) It all starts with the family. If a person is brought up in an atmosphere of harmony and loves his parents, he, as a rule, grows up as a friendly, merciful, understanding member of society. It is in the institution of the family that moral and moral foundations are laid. Therefore, I agree with Cicero: ...
The work contains autobiographical details, the narration is from the first person. The narrator, Ray Smith, a young man from the “beatniks” generation, travels around America in passing cars and freight trains, often sleeps in the open air and lives on odd jobs, being content ...
The largest house on the Arbat is between Nikolsky and Money Lane. Four former classmates live in it. Three of them: Sasha Pankratov, the secretary of the Komsomol cell of the school, the son of the elevator Maxim Kostin and Nina Ivanova - made up a close-knit group of activists in the school. They also adjoined a daughter ...
There are at least five regions on Earth whose inhabitants are distinguished by their enviable longevity, health and vitality. Dan Buttner, as part of the National Geographic project, conducted several expeditions to each of these “blue zones” and found out what are the circumstances from diet to life settings for this ...
At the age of eighty-seven, a millionaire, Greek by birth, Aristide Leonidis dies. His attending physician refuses to issue a death certificate and insists on an autopsy. His granddaughter Sophia asks her fiancé Charles Hayward, the son of an assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard, to help her in the investigation....
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