: The old Romanian recalls her stormy youth and tells two legends: about the son of an eagle, doomed to eternal loneliness for pride, and about a young man who sacrificed himself to save his native tribe. The titles of the chapters are conditional. Chapter 1. The Legend of Larre The Storyteller met the old woman Isergil when ...

: The young doctor settled in the province, fell in love with a girl from a creative family. But she refused him, and the family turned out to be ordinary people, like the whole city. The doctor was mired in boredom, grew fat, became rude and greedy. The titles of the chapters in the retelling are conditional. Chapter 1. Introducing the Turkins ...

: The estate of a ruined widow is put up for auction. The merchant advises her to cut down the garden and lease the land. She is against - her youth passed in this garden. Then he redeems the estate and realizes his plan. The names of the actions are conditional. Action 1. Ranevskaya returns from France to the ruined estate ...

: Exploring unknown lands, the ship's doctor visited the country of Lilliputians and giants, got to the flying island, to the court of the necromancer king and to the race of intelligent horses. Part 1.Traveling to Liliputu Lemuel Gulliver was the son of a poor English landowner. At fourteen, his father sent him to study. ...

: XIX century. A bored young officer, exiled to the Caucasus, ruins a young Circassian woman, compromises the princess, betrays an old friend, then leaves for Persia and dies, returning home. In the original, the first two chapters are written on behalf of a wandering officer whose name is not in the novel ...

: The storyteller looks at the school photograph and recalls a childhood friend, grandmother, native hut, dispossession, village life and the family of young teachers who organized a school in his remote village. The narration is conducted on behalf of the matured Viti, in which Victor Astafyev himself guesses. ...

: The tribe is driven into a poisonous dark forest. The young man volunteers to take people out, but the path is terrible, and they begin to murmur. Then he rips out his flaming heart, lights up his path and dies, leading the tribe out of the forest. The legend of Danko is an excerpt from the third part of the story of Maxim Gorky, “The Old Woman Isergil”. Title ...

: A gymnasium teacher, afraid of everything in the world and living according to the orders of his superiors, decides to marry. A long matchmaking takes the teacher out of his “case”, and he dies, frightened of real life. The hunters Ivan Ivanovich and Burkin stopped for the night. They shared life stories with each other....

: Ancient Russia. The prince with the army goes to the land of the enemy, loses the battle, is captured, but soon escapes from it and returns home. The "Word" was written by an unknown author (possibly a monk) in Old Russian. The retelling is based on the explanatory translation of D. S. Likhachev, quotes from ...

Once in the city of Ensk, on the river bank, a dead postman and a bag with letters were found. Aunt Dasha read one letter aloud to her neighbors every day. Sanya Grigoriev was especially remembered for the lines about long-distance polar expeditions ... Sanya lives in Ensk with her parents and sister Sasha. By an absurd accident ...

: The poor official fell in love with a married princess, wrote letters to her for seven years, sent an expensive gift and shot himself. The tearful princess understood: "the love that every woman dreams of has passed by her." The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional, in the original - 13 chapters without titles. Preparing for name days ...

: A woman worked all her life on a collective farm. She lost her children and husband, but retained kindness and selflessly helped everyone. After her ridiculous and terrible death, her relatives share her house and remember her with reproach. The narration is conducted in the first person. The narrator guesses Solzhenitsyn himself, who after ...

: The Soviet driver lived with his beloved wife and raised children. He went to the front, was captured, but heroically escaped from there. Upon learning that his whole family had died, he adopted a street boy. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional. Acquaintance with Andrei Sokolov Spring. Upper Don. Narrator with a friend ...

: A petty official saves half his life on a small estate, is starving. Finally, his dream comes true, and the official turns into a fat, self-righteous gentleman, who speaks self-confidently about the needs of the people. The veterinarian Ivan Ivanitch, who met on a hunt, and the teacher of the gymnasium Burkin walked across the field. Ivan ...

: The poor landowner and the wife of his friend love each other for many years, but are afraid to confess their love, believing that they are unworthy of her. Only parting forever, they understand what little things prevented them from loving. The old bachelor Pavel Konstantinovich Alyokhin received guests at his estate. Pavel Konstantinovich ...

Sevastopol in December “The morning dawn is just beginning to color the sky above Sapun Mountain; the dark blue surface of the sea has already cast off the dusk of night and is waiting for the first ray to play with a cheerful brilliance; from the bay carries cold and fog; there is no snow - everything is black, but a sharp morning frost ...

The original of this work is read in just 9 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. On a rainy autumn day, a dirty tarantass drives up to a long hut, in one half of which there is a post station, and in the other - an inn. “Slim” sits in the back of a tarantass ...

: A hunter meets two very different friends - an economic rationalist and a dreamy idealist. He is very surprised at their friendship. The narration is conducted in the first person. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional. Comparison of men in the Oryol and Kaluga provinces. The striking difference between the appearance ...

: A hunter is waiting for a thunderstorm near a forester, whom the neighboring men are afraid of. With him, the forester releases the poacher - a man dying of hunger, and the hunter realizes that the forester is actually a kind person. The original narration is on behalf of the narrator. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional. ...

February 20, 1598 It’s already a month since Boris Godunov shut himself up with his sister in a monastery, having left “all things worldly” and refusing to accept the Moscow throne. The people explain Godunov’s refusal to marry the kingdom in the spirit necessary for Boris: “He is afraid of the radiance of the throne.” Godunov perfectly understands the game ...