Literature teacher

A teacher of Russian language and literature in a small provincial town, Sergei Vasilievich Nikitin, is in love with the daughter of a local landowner, Masha Shelestova, who is eighteen years old, who “has not yet been accustomed to consider a family to be a little family” and that’s why her name is Manya and Manyusa, and when the circus visited her, she hard

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Tsar Boris

On Borisov’s wedding day to the throne, the boyars calculate the fruits of his reign: the suppressed pestilence, the completed wars, and the harvests. They are amazed at how long Godunov had to persuade him to take power, and only the threat of excommunication forced him to do so. Boris returns from the cathedral, intending to receive ...

Notes of a young doctor

: The young doctor gets to the village hospital, where he has to take a hundred people a day, to carry out the most complicated operations alone, to fight diseases, ignorance and his own cowardice. The narration is on behalf of a young doctor whose name is not mentioned. Action takes place in ...

Day of the Oprichnik

: XXI Century. The autocracy and the oprichnina are returning to Russia, and again the “Iron Curtain” arises. One of the top Moscow oprichniks kills people and takes a bribe, confident that he is serving Russia. The narration is conducted on behalf of the oprichnik Andrey Komyaga. Russia, XXI century. Sixteen years ago ...

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The image of the muse in the lyrics of N. A. Nekrasov

(283 words) For a poet, a muse is something abstract, but at the same time it is generated by specific images, phenomena and motives that excite the souls of creators, it is something personal, something that inspires. From childhood, Nekrasov tasted the burden of realizing the injustice of the slave regime in Russia, a harsh ...

Parting

For three months, the meaning of life for Albert has been patiently waiting for many hours for his beloved Anna. They agreed that every day, from three to seven hours, he would wait for her, and he patiently waits, each time for hours, and often in vain. Anna does not dare to leave home if her husband is delayed....

Prince Friedrich of Homburg

In the center of the drama is the battle of Ferbellin (1675), which largely determined the fate of Germany. Prince Friedrich Arthur of Homburg, cavalry general, sits in a sleepy daze at night under a tree in the castle garden and weaves a laurel wreath. Elector of Bradenburg, Friedrich Wilhelm; elector, princess ...

Sonia

: Friends act out a stupid, ugly, kind girl by inventing a fan for her. She dies in the besieged Leningrad, sacrificing her life for a fictional lover, never learning about deception. Sonya was a very ugly fool, kind and simple-minded. She worked as a keeper in a dusty museum....

The complete biography of Bulgakov: life and work

The end of the 19th century is a complex and contradictory time. It is not surprising that it was in 1891 that one of the most mysterious Russian writers was born. We are talking about Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov - director, playwright, mystic, author of scripts and opera libretto. Bulgakov’s story is not ...

Steal like an artist: 10 lessons of creative expression

Steal as an artist There is nothing absolutely original in the world. Even the great creators looked around a lot and integrated ideas into their work. Do not pretend to be someone else's, but take ideas and improve them. It is not a fact that everyone has heard about these ideas, so repeating will never hurt. It’s important ...

US Literature

Trust that burst

Once, the heroes of the Noble Rogue cycle, Jeff Peters and Andy Tucker, who, according to Peters, “each dollar in his hand ... perceived as a personal insult if he could not perceive it as a booty,” returned from Mexico after another successful scam and stopped in a texas populated ...

Soviet literature

On the Irtysh

It was March, the month of nine hundred and thirty-first year. In the village of Krutye Luki, the windows of the collective farm office burned until late — the board was in session, then the men just got together and judged endlessly about their affairs. Spring is drawing near. Sowing. Just now the collective farm barn was completely bombarded - this is after ...

British literature

Maritime agreement

: Due to the fault of a young man, a document of national importance disappears.Sherlock Holmes discovers that the document was stolen by the bride's brother of a young man. Sherlock Holmes seeks help from Percy Phelps, Dr. Watson's school friend. Phelps is sick and cannot visit an apartment on Baker Street, therefore ...