The book, in essence a memoir, describes the first ten years of a child's life (1790s) spent in Ufa and the villages of the Orenburg province. The author reproduces children's perception, for which everything is new and everything is equally important, events are not divided into main and secondary: therefore, in "Children's Years" ...

Prince Nekhlyudov was nineteen years old when he, from the 3rd year of university, came to his village in summer vacations and alone spent the whole summer there. In the fall, he wrote to his aunt, Countess Beloretskaya, who, according to his ideas, was his best friend and the most brilliant woman in the world, which he was going to leave ...

Act one The county town of Cheryomukhin. In the common room of the hotel, where retired cavalryman Vikhorev stayed, his servant Stepan eats a herring, boredom, having sex with a conversation about his master - a windy and careless man who wants to profit from a profitable marriage. The conversation is short: soon Stepan ...

: A schoolboy comes to a friend dying from a serious illness to make peace with him. The work “Boys” is the tenth book of the fourth part of the novel by F. M. Dostoevsky “The Brothers Karamazov”. Kolya Krasotkin. Thirty-year-old widow of the provincial secretary Krasotkin lived "with her own capital." ...

: A collection of four stories based on Ukrainian folklore is positioned as a continuation of “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka”. Old-world landowners Old men Afanasy Ivanovich Tovstogub and his wife Pulkheria Ivanovna lived in a remote village - such settlements in Little Russia were called "old-world"....

From the publisher To the first edition of the stories, the publisher decided to attach “a short biography of the late author,” Ivan Petrovich Belkin. He contacted his friend, and he told me that Belkin’s father was a second major and a poor landowner. Belkin himself also served in the army, but retired after the death of his parents....

: Wandering with a gun and a dog, the narrator writes down small stories about the mores and life of the surrounding peasants and their neighboring landowners. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the landowner and an avid hunter, a middle-aged man. Khor and Kalinych Guest at the Kaluga landowner, the narrator met ...

Father called his little son Misha to him and showed him a beautiful tortoiseshell snuffbox. On its cover was a city with golden houses, turrets and trees. The sun was rising over the city, from which pink rays scattered across the sky. Dad said the town is called Ding Ding, touched ...

In the evening, at the Shumins' house, they set the table after the all-night service. From the garden, through a large window, Nadia saw how the table was laid in the living room, grandma Marfa Mikhailovna in a magnificent silk dress was bustling.Near the cathedral archpriest, father Andrei spoke with Nadina’s mother Nina Ivanovna, they were listened to by the son of archpriest ...

The poet describes the front door of a house belonging to an influential and wealthy nobleman. "On festive days" a lot of people come to him. Having written down their name and title, the guests disperse home, So deeply satisfied with themselves, What do you think - that’s their calling! They come to remind about ...

The original of this work is read in just 3 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. : Uncle talks about the Battle of Borodino, in which he took part, and complains about the current generation. The poem begins with a stanza on behalf of the narrator, followed by memories ...

Katya, short, pretty and still very young, is Mitya's lover. She studies at a private theater school, goes to the studio of the Art Theater, lives with her mother, “always a smoking, always a well-dressed lady with crimson hair,” who had already left her husband. Mitya, thin and clumsy brunette with the "Byzantine" ...

: One of the main aristocrats of the county invites noble guests to his place to sell the stroller. His venture ends in shame. In the town of B. it is incredibly boring until a cavalry regiment enters it. The brigadier general also moves here. He gives lunch. Among the invitees is a local landowner, one ...

: An orphan youth is going to serve instead of his family fellow villager. During a hurricane, he saves his comrades at the cost of his own life .. For two days, a military clipper withstood a fierce hurricane in the Indian Ocean. Finally the storm subsided and the danger passed. Having not slept for two days, the captain went to rest....

Thirty years ago, all the young people of the county town of Streletsk were in love with Sanya Diesperova, the daughter of a provincial priest. Of all the fans, she liked one Jordanian, silent, stately and handsome seminarist. He scared her with his silent love, the fire of black eyes and blue hair, she flashed, ...

: At the end of the service, the sailor is sent to serve as a batman to the captain. He has to watch the son of the captain, for whom the sailor will forever become his best friend. Fedos Chizhik got into recruits because of the whim of an old landowner, and was taken to the fleet because of his small stature. Over the years of his long service Chizhik ...

: The gymnasium teacher lives with one thought: promotion. He himself does not notice how gradually this obsession leads him to insanity. But it is still unknown whether there is someone crazy in this city of vices ... Ardalion Borisych Peredonov is a literature teacher in a small provincial gymnasium ...

The original of this work is read in just 9 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. : A woman appeals to a bank employee asking for payment of what her husband did not deduct from salaries. Having not achieved anything with explanations, they give her money from personal funds, if only she leaves....

: Undertaker and violinist who spent his whole life calculating losses, understands that life passed him. Before his death, he bequeaths his violin to a man whom he just offended. In a small town lives seventy-year-old master undertaker Yakov Matveevich Ivanov, nicknamed Bronze. Things are going ...

This summer morning in the village of Grachi began unusually: at dawn, all the inhabitants of the house of the poor landowner Anna Pavlovna Adueva were already on their feet. Only the culprit of this fuss, the son of Adueva, Alexander, slept, "how to sleep a twenty-year-old boy, a heroic dream." The turmoil reigned in the Rooks because ...