Two years after the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was transferred, the godless king Batu came to Russia. He becomes with his army on the Voronezh River near Ryazan. Batu sends ambassadors to Prince Ryazan Yuri Ingorevich, offering the following conditions: the Ryazan prince will immediately give a tenth of everything
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Sergei Yesenin called himself the last poet of the village. He was very worried about the village and the peasants. The poet always wanted life in the hinterland to change for the better, and had high hopes for the new Soviet power. Many poems by Sergei Yesenin are dedicated to the native village of Konstantinovo....
A platoon of Soviet scouts entered the village. Scout commander Lieutenant Travkin was thinking about his people. Of the eighteen former, proven fighters, he only had twelve. The rest were just recruited, and what they will be in business is unknown. And ahead was a meeting with the enemy: ...
Taking advantage of the benefits of civilization and accepting the moral guidelines that surround us from birth, we sometimes do not think about how much our ancestors had to go through. We take a lot for granted. For example, women's opportunities to work, receive salaries and education on a par with men, ...
It so happened that in the last war year, a local resident Andrei Guskov returned secretly from the war to a remote village on the Angara. The deserter does not think that he will be met with open arms in his father’s house, but he believes and is not deceived in his wife’s understanding. Although his wife Nastena is afraid to admit it to herself, ...
(296 words) My first musical love happened to me in St. Petersburg. Every corner of this city seemed to me a part of great art. No less. I walked along the Bolshaya Morskaya, opening my mouth like an foreign tourist, not listening to a single sound flying through the street. Tired but happy legs brought me on ...
Cyril the monk is a parable about the human soul, and about the body, and about the violation of God's commandment, and about the resurrection of the human body, and about the final judgment, and about torment. The orator and preacher Kirill Turovsky (XII century) uses in his parable the well-known story about the soul and body, which appear here in the images of a blind man ...
The book "After the Ball" was the pride of the author, because in it he was able to simply and briefly explain his views on the world. He showed the dark side of the noble assembly, contrasting him with what gives the high society such power. She rests on cruelty and suppression of the people. Key events from the story ...
The main character Roland Rami returns to civilian life after a few months of service in Morocco, where he took part in hostilities. In Paris, with the mediation of one of his army comrades, Rami becomes a member of a small group of young people meeting in the Montmartre region, ...
: A poor Jew from a small town ends up in a big city. Trying to make money, he suffers one failure after another. The collection is based on the correspondence of the protagonist with his wife. London (Odessa Exchange) Menachem Mendl arrives in Chisinau to his uncle for a dowry. He gives him a bill, some cash ...
From the editors: at the request of Rospotrebnadzor, we removed from the retelling mentions of suicide methods and suggestions, from which we can conclude that suicide is a way to solve problems. If you find yourself in a difficult life situation, talk with a professional psychologist. Around the clock ...
If ever technology comes to the creation of a time machine, and you have the opportunity to go back in time, take a tour in the 14th century and personally meet Giovanni Boccaccio. After all, he owns the collection of amazing short stories “The Decameron”, which helped to decorate Florence in such ...
(325 words) The theme of family values often appears on the pages of great novels, “Crime and Punishment” was no exception. After all, the Family is something that helps to understand the inner world of a person, often by the situation in the family you can judge which person and what prompted him to this or that act. IN ...
A. Akhmatova is the greatest poet of the 20th century. She was remembered by many for her irreconcilability to those who betray the Motherland, and her patriotism. For many readers, Anna Andreevna is the creator of only civilian lyrics, but this is far from the case. This is a virtuoso of his craft, in her work not only patriotic ...
Each act here has its own subtitle: “Games and Fun,” “Walpurgis Night,” “Expulsion of the Demon.” Forty-six-year-old George, Ph.D., a teacher at a college in New England, and his wife Martha (she is six years older than her husband) return home late at night after receiving from Martha’s father, ...
: A schoolgirl starred as a partisan in a film about the Patriotic War of 1812. In a few years, she will repeat the path of her heroine during the years of World War II. Part one. My Ustia 1938. Sim Krupitsyna, a plain-faced, freckled girl, a mediocre student, the object of his ridicule ...
Principles for Developing a Blue Ocean Strategy A blue ocean strategy is designed to minimize potential risks. It is based on three principles: minimizing search risk - revising market boundaries; minimization of planning risk - concentration on the big picture, not on numbers; risk minimization ...
: A boy who later became a famous zoologist lives on a Greek island in a house with a garden. He floods the house with a variety of animals, which his family doesn't like too much. The narration is conducted on behalf of ten-year-old Jerry Darrell. The Darrell family moves from England to the Greek island of Corfu, ...
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