N. then traveled without purpose and without a plan, and on his way stopped in the quiet German town of N. Once, N. N., coming to a student party, met in a crowd with two Russians - a young artist who called himself Gagin, and his sister Anna, who Gagin called Asya. avoided the Russians for ...

This story dates back to the time when the narrator was still a child.A father and one of his sons went to the Crimea to sell tobacco, leaving his wife at home, three more sons and a grandfather to watch the tower - it’s a profitable business, there are many travelers, and best of all, the Chumaks who told outlandish stories. One evening comes ...

In the winter forest, a wolf talks with a raven, squirrels play with a hare in the burner. They are seen by the Stepdaughter, who came to the forest for brushwood and firewood (her cruel stepmother sent her). The stepdaughter meets the Soldier in the forest, tells him about the game of animals. He explains that all kinds of miracles happen on New Year’s and helps ...

: A stray hunter in the night wanders around peasant children who sit by the fire, guard horses and tell each other scary stories about goblin, mermaids, brownies and other evil spirits.The action takes place in the Russian Empire, in the Chern district of the Tula province. Narration is underway ...

Area in a provincial town. The shopkeeper hisses indignantly after the woman with the cat - The housewife went shopping in another store. Jean and Beranger appear almost simultaneously - nevertheless, Jean reproaches a friend for being late. Both sit at a table in front of the cafe. Beranger looks bad: ...

: An old experienced driver fades during a flight due to a lightning strike, his eyesight is restored, he is tried and sentenced to prison. His assistant invents a test with artificial lightning and saves the old man. The narration is on behalf of the assistant to the driver Konstantin. Alexander Vasilievich Maltsev ...

: A defenseless, sick person suffers bullying all his life. After his death, people learn that he selflessly helped an orphan girl. Yefim, popularly nicknamed Yushka, works as an assistant to a blacksmith. This weak man, old-looking, was only forty years old. Old man he ...

: A boy from a wealthy family likes a white poodle played by strolling artists. A small acrobat rescues a dog. A small wandering troupe travels around the Crimea: organ grinder, Martyn Lodyzhkin with an old organ-grinder, twelve-year-old boy Sergey and a white poodle Arto. On this day, artists do not ...

: A father dies in a boy. Together with his mother, he moves to the house of a cruel and greedy grandfather. Mother gets married, and the boy is raised by grandmother. When the mother dies, the grandfather sends the boy "to the people." 1913, Nizhny Novgorod. The narration is conducted on behalf of the boy Alyosha Peshkov. I First memory ...

: Grandfather sends his grandson to work with strangers. The boy suffers beatings and bullying, his life is dirty and boring. Having matured, he feels a craving for reading and science, and decides to go to study. The narration is conducted on behalf of the boy Alyosha Peshkov. I Grandfather Vasily gave Alyosha a “boy” in Nizhny Novgorod ...

Among friends, there was a conversation that "for personal improvement, you must first change the conditions among which people live." Everyone respected Ivan Vasilyevich told a story that radically changed his life. Then he was young and deeply in love with eighteen-year-old Varenka, beautiful, ...

The Monk Sergius was born in the Tver land, during the reign of the Tver Prince Dmitry, under Metropolitan Peter. The saint's parents were noble and pious people. His father was called Cyril, and his mother was Mary. An amazing miracle happened even before the birth of the saint, when he was in the womb. Maria ...

In one of the cities of the Rostov district there is a court. Boyarin Sturgeon, the voivode of the Khvalynsk Sea Som and the judicial peasants - Sudak and Pike-trembling are considering the petition on Ersha, which was composed of peasants of the Rostov district, fish Bream and Chub.They accuse Yersha of having come from the Volga River to Lake Rostov, ...

There are no people more unfortunate than station rangers, because in all their troubles, travelers will certainly blame the rangers and seek to express their anger at them about bad roads, bad weather, bad horses and the like. Meanwhile, the rangers are mostly meek and unrequited ...

In the early morning, the maid Lisa knocks on the young lady's bedroom. Sophia did not immediately respond: she talked all night with her lover, the secretary of her father, Molchalin, who lives in the same house. Sophia’s inapparently father, Pavel Afanasevich Famusov, flirts with Lisa, who barely succeeds in fighting off the master....

After the end of the Vienna Council, Emperor Alexander Pavlovich decided to "travel around Europe and see miracles in different states."The Don Cossack Platov, who was with him, was not surprised at the "wonders", because he knew that in Russia "your own is no worse." In the latest Kunstkamera, among those gathered ...

: The article is dedicated to Griboedov’s ageless, always relevant play “Woe from Wit”, society spoiled by conditional morality and Chatsky, a freedom fighter and a convict of lies that will not disappear from society. Ivan Goncharov notes the freshness and youthfulness of the play “Woe from Wit”: She is like a century old man, about ...

About forty years ago, in St. Petersburg on Vasilyevsky Island, there was a landlord of a male guesthouse. Among the thirty or forty children who studied at that hostel there was one boy named Alyosha, who was then no more than 9 or 10 years old. His parents, who lived far, far from St. Petersburg, ...

The action takes place at the end of the 20th century. in the city of Harmont, which is located near one of the Visitation Zones. The Visitation Zone - there are only six of them on Earth - this is the place where, several years before the described events, space aliens landed for several hours, leaving numerous material ...

Katerina Lvovna, “the woman is very pleasant in appearance”, lives in the prosperous house of the merchant Izmailov with widowed father-in-law Boris Timofeevich and middle-aged husband Zinovy ​​Borisovich. Katerina Lvovna has no children, and “with all her contentment”, her life “for an unkind husband” is the most boring.In the sixth year of marriage ...