(369 words) The story of the appearance of an extra person began something like this: a romantic hero, lonely and incomprehensible by society, suddenly fits into reality by the authors. There is no one to admire the romance anymore, the mental torment of a loner no longer enticed anyone. Realizing this, the writers decided to show
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(327 words) N.A. Nekrasov repeatedly addressed the topic of the fate of the people. Among others, he tried to find the answer to the question of what the intercessor looks like. The heroes of the poem “To whom it is good to live in Russia” are ordinary people who do hard work every day. They do not expect rewards for this, but all ...
Part One In St. Petersburg, on Gorokhovaya Street, on the same morning as always, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is lying in bed - a young man of about thirty-two, not burdening himself with special activities. His lying is a certain way of life, a kind of protest against the prevailing conventions, because Ilya ...
(322 words) The novel by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov “The Master and Margarita” is one of the author's mysterious works, which has been prepared for more than a year. In the book, the author raises many topics for which there is no unequivocal view, and therefore readers are still enthusiastically studying the writer's legacy....
Garshin's most famous story. Although not strictly autobiographical, he nevertheless absorbed the personal experience of the writer, who suffered from manic-depressive psychosis and suffered an acute form of the disease in 1880. A new patient was brought to the provincial psychiatric hospital. He is a buoy, and the doctor fails ...
A quarrel erupts between husband and wife over the fact that she suspects him of treason. The angry husband leaves, and the wife complains to the neighbor. She promises her friend to find out if her fears are true. Their plan is ripening: when the husband returns home, the wife will pretend to be alarmed and in response to his questions will say ...
Hotel; night; Italy; year 1748th. The main character is Giacomo Casanova, twenty-three years old, authentic, extracted from the fourth volume of his own memoirs and supplemented by a female dream about the eternal Casanova, sleeping, dropping female names from her lips. Husar Henry interrupts his restless dream, at first ...
: Two poor sisters hear a story about the dwarves living in the mountain and their wealth. They decide to get rich and at night go to the stream flowing from the mountain, where one of the sisters is captured forever by the dwarves. Village girls were returning from a spring with jugs full of water. On the church porch they saw ...
Former pickpocketer Nikolai Nikolayevich, behind a bottle, tells the story of his life to a silent interlocutor. He was released nineteen years old, immediately after the war. His aunt registered in Moscow. Nikolai Nikolayevich didn’t work anywhere - he smoked (stole) pockets in a tram carriage and was with money....
The great Tver Prince Yaroslav Yaroslavich had a faithful servant, a youth named Gregory. The prince trusted him in everything, even instructing him to go to his villages and collect tribute. It happened once that servant was in the Volga village of Edimonov, which was fourteen miles from Tver, and he stopped in the house of a local sexton ...
Poetry of the 20th century is a special literary space. The poets of that time experienced very serious problems, they were harassed by all kinds of troubles: a change of power, war and repression. Many of them surrendered under the yoke of the government, published under the most severe censorship, but only Anna Andreevna Akhmatova....
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, ...
N. then traveled without purpose and without a plan, and on his way stopped in the quiet German town of N. Once, N. N., coming to a student party, met in a crowd with two Russians - a young artist who called himself Gagin, and his sister Anna, who Gagin called Asya. avoided the Russians for ...
(432 words) There is an opinion that the older generation is always right. On their side experience, authority and even more solid appearance, compared with young people. However, often all these advantages deceive the fathers themselves, and with them a society that unconditionally believes them ...
Earth. The second half of the XXI century. Frederick Hallem, a rather ordinary young radiochemist, accidentally discovers that in a dusty flask with the label “Wolfram” suddenly some other substance appeared. Spectrometric analysis shows that it is a plutonium isotope that theoretically cannot exist, ...
While all the people were jumping from one service to another, Bartholomew Korotkov, a gentle, quiet blonde, served firmly in the Glavcentrbazspimat (abbreviated as Spimat) as a clerk and served in it for 11 months. September 20, 1921 the cashier of Spimat covered himself with his nasty eared hat, ...
For the “new rich”, to be rich means to live a luxurious life here and now. Many people donate their best years of life to an unloved job to ensure a comfortable old age, and consider it worth it. They think that work should be hard, and they will be rewarded for their efforts in the future. Putting off ...
: An outstanding leader of the criminal world, who can not be caught in any way, is tracking Holmes in Europe. Longtime enemies meet at a steep waterfall and die in a deadly battle. After marriage, Dr. Watson rarely sees Sherlock Holmes. One evening, a great detective comes to his faithful friend ...
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