: A village by the sea. The young officer met a beautiful girl and found out that she was from a gang of smugglers. The officer intended to expose the gang, but nearly died, and the girl left the village forever. In the original, the narration is conducted on behalf of Pechorin in the form of entries in his diary. While traveling ...

: A middle-aged officer meets an old friend with whom he served and experienced many things, but he behaves arrogantly and refuses to communicate with him. Seeing his indifference, the officer is forever disappointed in friendship. Continuing his journey, the storyteller again met Maxim Maksimych in a roadside hotel....

: The officer decided to try his luck and shot himself from a randomly selected pistol, but the weapon misfired. That evening, the officer died, hacked down by a drunk Cossack. His friend realized that it was fate. In the original, the narration is conducted on behalf of Pechorin in the form of entries in his diary. Once a battalion ...

: The young officer fell in love with the princess, shot a duel because of her, but did not want to marry. In parallel, he resumed relations with a long-time mistress. Having compromised both women, the officer left. In the original, the narration is conducted on behalf of Pechorin in the form of entries in his diary. After wounding Pechorin ...

: Caucasus, XIX century. The young officer fell in love with the beautiful Circassian woman and exchanged her for a horse stolen from a dashing highlander. The vengeful highlander kidnapped the Circassian woman and wounded her, the girl died in the arms of an officer. The original narration is on behalf of a wandering officer, whose name is not mentioned in the novel ...

The original of this work is read in just 2 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. : At the drunken feast, the king ordered to put on masks and dance. One prince refused and reproached the king for misconduct. He furiously killed him. The feast continued, but the repentant king is already ...

: Mother left her son for the night in a rural hospital. One of the patients died at night, the boy got scared, ran away, wandered around the hospital for a long time and lost consciousness from fear on the porch of the doctor’s house. The road to the hospital was a long one. Pashka with his mother walked either through a sloping field or through an autumn forest. Pashka ...

The original of this work is read in just 3 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. : The young man runs to his parents with good news: they wrote about him in the newspaper! A short note says how he got drunk under a horse. Triumphing, the hero runs to show ...

The original of this work is read in just 8 minutes.We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. : Masquerade ball. The drunken masked gentleman insulted the intellectuals and made a scandal. When he tore off his mask, everyone recognized him as a famous millionaire and, having swallowed an insult, wrapped the incident ...

The original of this work is read in just 8 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. : Late in the evening, waiting for their parents, the children played lotto. We played recklessly, for money, quarreled, envied each other, but soon tired and fell asleep, and the won pennies lost their strength ...

: The queen organizes the murder of her stepdaughter because she is more beautiful than her. The poisoned girl falls asleep in a dead sleep, but the bridegroom finds and awakens her, and the queen dies of anger and envy. The king bid farewell to his queen wife and set off on a long journey. Sitting by the window, the queen waited a long time for her beloved husband. Across ...

: Because of the intrigues of the envious, the innocent young queen and the prince are thrown into the ocean. They find themselves on a deserted island, where the prince rescues a sorceress, marries her and with her help reunites with his father. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional. The marriage of King Saltan Three sisters imagined that they would ...

: Trying to escape from the reality frightening them, the three heroes choose their “cases”. For one, this is his own estate, another finds refuge in work, and the third - in the "most reliable case" - to the tomb. The trilogy is united by three heroes, hunting comrades: Burkin, Ivan Ivanovich and Alekhine. Each of ...

The original of this work is read in just 3 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. : From the last meal the old woman bakes a bun. He comes to life and embarks on a journey. On the way, the gingerbread man meets a hare, a wolf and a bear, but leaves them unscathed. As a result, he eats ...

: The widow peasant woman has only one son and worker dying. The lady who came to sympathize with her sees that the widow is eating salted cabbage soup, and considers it callous, not understanding how salt is expensive for peasants. The only widow of the peasant widow of Tatyana, Vasya, a strong twenty-year-old boy, “the first ...

The original of this work is read in just 5 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting.: The Old Magician predicts to the Prophetic Oleg that he will die from his horse. Oleg is trying to avoid this, but the prophecy still comes true. Oleg is going on a military campaign to ...

: Karas discusses freedom and equality for all fish, he is convinced that he knows words that can even re-educate pike. Having met a pike, he says these words to her, and she eats it in surprise. Karas argued with a ruffian friend about "that it is possible to live in the world with one truth." Ruff argued ...

: Satirical tales allegorically describe human vices, ridicule power, liberal intelligentsia, officials and landlords, touch on ethical problems and troubles of the common people. Saltykov-Shchedrin wrote fairy tales from 1869 to 1886, but due to censorship some of them were published ...

: Gathering the courtyard, the eagle establishes science and art, but enlightenment is not good for him. The eagle remains an ignorant, bloodthirsty tyrant, and the aides remain thieves and schemers.Poets endow eagles with courage, nobility and generosity, often comparing urban ones with them. Narrator doubts ...

: Three bears in turn are appointed governors of the forest. The first two bet on bloodshed and lose. The latter does not interfere in the life of the forest and deserves the praise of the ruler. Major atrocities are often called brilliant and as such they remain in history. The villainy is small, "shameful" ...