: A single man and a married woman meet on the Internet and fall in love, a woman becomes pregnant. Not knowing who the father of the child is, she finds out a relationship with her husband, decides to save the family and leaves her lover. The narration alternates on behalf of two heroes: the scientist Yakub and his nameless lover....

Dzyady - the name of the rite, preserved from pagan times. On Dzyad Day, wizard-priests commemorate the dead and offer them sacrifices - food and drink. All three parts of the poem are written in the form of a play. The second and third parts of Miscavige are preceded by the poem "Ghost". In it we are talking about the ghost of a young man who ...

In the prose prologue to the poem, the author notes that he describes those ancient times when pagan Lithuanians fought with their main enemy - the Teutonic Order, which conquered Prussia. 1391 Knights come to Marienburg to elect the head of the order. Most often they pronounce here the name of Wallenrod - a stranger, ...

In the future - the “cosmic future” of mankind, very far from us - these farewell words will be heard: “Kelvin, you are flying. Good luck!" Psychologist Kelvin, at an incredible distance from Earth, drops from a spaceship to a planetary station - this is a huge silver whale soaring above the surface ...

Summer 1914. A beautiful young landowner Evelina Royskaya lives in her Ukrainian estate Molintsy. She has two sons: Józek, seventeen years old, sweet, serious boy, and unbridled Valerek, fourteen years old. Her husband studied agriculture in English agronomic magazines and tried to plant in Ukrainian ...

The duration of the novel is 1797-1812, the fifteenth anniversary of the failed uprising of Tadeusz Kosciuszko and the third (1795) partition of Poland between Prussia, Austria and Russia. In the center of the story is the young Rafal of Olbromsky, the son of a poor old nobleman. At a carnival in his father’s house, he accidentally meets ...

The novel in three books, saturated with excerpts from genuine ancient Egyptian texts adjacent to the emphasized modernized realities of the social life of the distant past, begins with an introduction in which the author sets out his views on the history of the ancient Egyptian state: “Egypt flourished while ...

Rome since the time of Emperor Nero, mired in crime and debauchery. To Petronius - a writer, an esthete, a connoisseur of luxury and pleasure, an “arbiter of grace”, an approximate of Nero — is his nephew, a young and beautiful warrior, patrician Mark Vinicius. The young man says that, returning to Rome from the war against ...

1878 haberdashery shop "Ya. Mintzel and son ”is led by clerk Ignacy Zhecki - a lonely, grouchy, crystal-honest old man who has worked in the company for forty years; he is an ardent Bonapartist, in 1848-1849. He fought for the freedom of Hungary and is still faithful to the heroic ideals of his youth; and he loves ...

1647 year. Ukrainian lands that make up the Commonwealth. Yan Skshetusky - a young handsome officer, a knight without fear and reproach, serving in the service of Prince Jeremiah Vishnevetsky, the owner of the vast lands on the Left Bank of the Dnieper, rescues a swarthy narrow-eyed giant from the Horde. Brave and arrogant ...

The sorceress Rosa Veneda discusses in her earthen grotto with her sister Lilla the battle between the tribes of the Wends and Lehits. Ecstatic visions reveal to Rosa that her witchcraft does not help the Wends to win the battle, the homeland will be ravaged and that Lilla will die too. Lilla cries, causing Rose's anger: how ...

Hall in the Holy Rood Palace. He says the city has riots. Someone unfamiliar to him at the head of the crowd - mummers, masked, dancers with bells, people in black hoods - threatened, predicted and urged people not to obey the queen. The courtier of Queen Riccio confirms that he too ...

The action takes place in the vicinity of the cities of Vilno and Grodno, in estates and villages located above the Neman. Recently, in 1863, the January uprising was crushed. The tsarist government seeks to deprive the Poles of the opportunity to consider these lands their own. The estates of large landowners confiscated in state ...

1655. Lithuanian lands that make up the Commonwealth.The rich and noble nobleman Billevich, dying, leaves almost all of his estates to an orphan-granddaughter, nineteen-year-old blond and blue-eyed beauty Alexandra (Olenka), only Lyubich attributes the estate to his friend’s son, a young Oroshansky ...

This and other tales. The protagonist of the tale is the twelve-year-old Adam of Dissent. Nothing went wrong with him, everything fell out of hand, he was constantly late for school, and then his parents sent his son to the Academy of Pan Klyaksa. The Academy is located in a large four-story building. On the top fourth floor ...

Iyon Tikhiy - “a famous star explorer, captain of a distant galactic navigation, hunter for meteors and comets, a tireless researcher who discovered eighty thousand three worlds, an honorary doctor of the universities of the Two Bears, a member of the Society for the Guardianship of Minor Planets and many other societies, cavalier ...

The Greek Minot is sailing in a boat to the native island of Ipsar. He can see the blossoming orange trees, the overshadowing ruins of the colonnades, the tops of the mountains, drowning in heavenly azure. The houses on the island are as if cut into coastal cliffs, the light contours of the minarets are visible. Acacia and roses bloom in the gardens, nightingales sing. The sun ...