: A woman from a Siberian village has been working hard all her life for her only daughter, dreaming of bringing her to the people. The daughter leaves her mother, secretly leaving for the city with a young officer, and the woman dies alone. Pelagia Amosova lived in a Siberian village, worked as a cook in a bakery. Pelagia Amosova
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After death, the artist Charles Strickland was recognized as a genius, and, as is usually the case, everyone who has seen him at least once is in a hurry to write memoirs and interpret his work. Some make from Strickland a good-natured family man, a caring husband and father, others sculpt a portrait of an immoral monster, not missing ...
The tragedy was written in 1806-07 and is based on one version of the myth of Penthesilea and Achilles. The action takes place on the battlefield near Troy. Odysseus, Antilochus and Diomedes talk about the Queen of the Amazons Pentesilea, who led the troops to lift the siege from Troy. Odysseus had already offered her to give up intentions, ...
Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov, to the great surprise of the writers, turned out to be the author whose legacy is not "in the ears". Of course, Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Yesenin gained more fame in modern society, but this does not mean that Batyushkov’s poetry is less professional or ...
(335 words) V. G. Rasputin in his novel “Farewell to Mater” touches not only the theme of a small homeland and memory, but also a careful attitude to nature. The environmental aspect of the book is not disclosed as fully as the rest, but it is important not only for the contemporaries of the writer, but also for people of the new ...
In the village house of Darya Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, a former beauty and a metropolitan lioness, who still organizes a salon far from civilization, they are waiting for a certain baron, scholar and expert in philosophy who promised to introduce her scientific research. Lasunskaya takes ...
(331 words) A. Chekhov masterfully described the pain and suffering of people. His characters never dramatize, they experience in full force, so that the reader believes every emotion. A vivid example is the story "Toske", where the main character of the work died his son. You might think that the reason ...
M. Lermontov often reflected on justice, honor and fidelity on a national scale. But under the tsar there was censorship, therefore the author cheated and expressed criticism of the existing system in the historical narrative. So the “Song about the merchant Kalashnikov” is an innovative work in which ...
(344 words) The play “The Cherry Orchard”, which was first published in 1904, contains a huge number of reasons for reflection. You can also see one problem that connects everything - the problem of the past, present and future, eras that break ties between themselves. Past ...
: An inexperienced hunter meets a young sable in the Sayan Mountains. A year later, a hunter kills a grown animal. Stepan and Askyr At dawn, in the dense taiga of the Sayan Mountains, by the fire, the Yaroslavl Stepan sat completely alone. He was not lucky in his native land, and Stepan went to Siberia, where, according to rumors, ...
(337 words) Lermontov is one of the key figures in Russian literature. An amazing lyricist, the successor of Pushkin's traditions, he created a world of magnificent poetic images, which embodied the best features of the Russian poet and the rebellious spirit of a true genius. His lyrics are thematically diverse. Imitated ...
The appearance of Julio Jurenito to the peoples of Europe and his first and most devoted pupil Ehrenburg takes place on March 26, 1913 in the cafe "Rotonda" on the Parisian boulevard Montparnasse, at the very same time that the author indulges in despondency over a cup of long-drunk coffee, vainly waiting for someone who set him free by paying the patient ...
The Literaguru team is pleased to present a summary of one of the most popular stories by the great classic Chekhov - “The Man in the Case”. In this book you will find excellent material for literary arguments and food for thought. (485 words) End of the 19th century. In the village of Mironosetskoye in ...
: XXI century, outer space. Human life is considered the highest value, but the young intern of the spacecraft puts in the first place a feat. The death of two researchers changes his mind. The story is composed of several short stories strung on a core plot - the journey of a young vacuum welder ...
On the eastern shore of the Hudson River, in the depths of one of the bays, there is a village, not far from it there is a hollow, which for its silence and serenity, as well as for the phlegmatic nature of its inhabitants, was called Sleepy. This place seems to be under some kind of spell that has bewitched the minds of local residents who live in ...
I go to the prison church on a feast day together with maman and Alexandra Lvovna Lei. Here we meet the “Madmazel” Gorshkova and her little students. I read about the city of En, about Chichikov and Manilov. We go for a walk with the nanny Cecilia, she leads me to the church. On the street we meet a “scary boy” who ...
Have you ever suffered from overwork? Did you realize that you work too much, but not efficiently enough? Are you always busy and inconclusive? Run as fast as you can, but do not budge - do you know this feeling? If you answered “yes” to at least one of these questions, then the only ...
: An old mendicant acquaintance blackmails a wealthy magistrate. Sherlock Holmes discovers that the judge was a criminal convicted and sent to Australia. While in college, Sherlock Holmes pondered what he saw around him and began to create his own method. Victor Trevor, with whom he is friends ...
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