Sovereign

: Having become a sovereign, you can be gracious or cruel, honest or deceitful - you have the right to do everything that strengthens your rule. When it comes to power, any means is good. Nationals must feel significant Imagine that you rule in the Renaissance and have just won a new

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Interesting Articles

Dear friend

Georges Durois, son of wealthy peasants, landlords, is endowed with a happy appearance by the whim of nature. He is slim, tall, blond, has a wonderful mustache ... Women really like him, and he is in Paris. But he has three francs in his pocket, and his salary will be only in two days. He is hot, he wants a beer....

The image of the city in Chekhov's story "Tosca"

(292 words) In the story of A. Chekhov "Longing" the image of St. Petersburg is clearly revealed. This city is large, crowded, but stale. In it, no one cares about the longing of the cab driver Jonah, whose son died in the week. The action takes place in St. Petersburg - the cold northern city, which is traditionally ...

Three Penny Opera

Prologue London. A street singer sings a ballad about Mackey Knife: Shark teeth have wedges. Everyone sticks out for show. And Makki only has a knife, Yes, and he is hidden from view. If a shark spills blood, all the water around is red. He wears a Makki knife, gloves, Not a spot on the gloves. Here over the Thames in the alleys People are dying for a penny....

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Irkutsk history

On one of the construction sites of Irkutsk, two girls work in a grocery store - Valya and Larisa. Valya is a cashier, she is twenty-five years old. This is a cheerful girl who thinks little about her behavior and lifestyle, for which she earned the nickname Valka-cheap. Her friend Viktor Boytsov, the same age as Vali, introduces ...

Summary of the story “Dog Heart” by chapter (M. Bulgakov)

Usually, schoolchildren read the works of M. Bulgakov with pleasure, because this author always succeeds in interestingly telling an extraordinary story about what, it would seem, cannot be. This is the beauty of his books. However, before the lesson there’s no time to reread the whole story, so a brief retelling of “Dog ...

Lonely cyclist

: The girl is pursued by two swindlers to take possession of her inherited fortune.The famous Sherlock Holmes exposes swindlers. Sherlock Holmes is contacted by a young woman named Violet Smith. After the death of her father, she and her mother were left without a livelihood, and the girl earns herself ...

Review of the story “Lilac Bush” (A. Kuprin)

(290 words) A.I. Kuprin liked to reflect on rather controversial topics. Each of his works is saturated with love and descriptions of sincere human feelings. If you delve into the content of his story "Lilac Bush", you can think about how diverse the concept of happiness in life ...

Pnin

The hero of the novel, Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, was born in 1898 in St. Petersburg, in the family of an oculist. In 1917, his parents died of typhoid. Timothy joined the White Army, where he served first as a telephone operator, and then in the Office of Military Intelligence. In 1919 he fled from Constantinople from the Crimea taken by the Red Army....

Modern Russian writers (list)

Contemporary Russian literature is a book of the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The culture and art of our days is usually called the postmodern era. The Russian postmodernist authors included many talented writers. We have prepared a selection of eight significant names of modern Russian and in many ways ...

Three hundred short stories

In the introduction to his book, the author admits that he wrote it, following "the example of the excellent Florentine poet, Messer Giovanni Boccaccio." “I, the Florentine Franco Sacketgi, a man of ignorance and rude, set out to write the book you are offering, collecting in it stories about all those extraordinary ...

US Literature

Ballad about a sad squash

A small town in the American South. Cotton factory, workers houses, peach trees, a church with two stained glass windows and a main street a hundred yards away. If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon, then little will please the eye in this kingdom of boredom and deserts. In the very center of the city stands a large ...

Soviet literature

Missing eye

: The young doctor, having gained experience, believes that you will not surprise him with anything. A child with a tumor instead of an eye is brought to him. Upon learning that the tumor is an ordinary abscess, the doctor realizes that he will have many surprises. The narration is on behalf of a young doctor, whose name is not mentioned in the story. Act ...

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British literature

The spy who came from the cold

The action takes place in the sixties, during the Cold War, when espionage was one of the main means of struggle between the two hostile political systems. The head of the British residency in East Berlin, Alec Limas, after the death of one of his main agents, SED member Karl Rimek, ...