: A young ancient Greek sculptor goes on a journey, falls into slavery, experiences many dangerous adventures, finds freedom, crosses Africa, returns home and marries his beloved. Prologue The second half of the 20th century. In one of the Leningrad museums gemma is stored - transparent ...

: The girl inherits from her father a malachite box. The jewelry in the box turns out to be magical, they turn the girl into another Mistress of the Copper Mountain. The beginning of the story is in the tale "The Copper Mountain Mistress" After the death of her husband, Nastasya left a casket made of malachite, which ...

: A man loses galosha in a tram, which falls into the camera for lost things. To get the thing back, he spends several days and during this time loses the second galosh. The narration is conducted in the first person. The narrator lost a galosh in the tram - it’s clear that “some Arkharist” stepped on his heel, ...

The main action of the novel takes place in Moscow in 1899-1900. Chapter One Nadia Oleksina, the youngest in the family, could “become a spoiled toy” for older brothers and sisters if a series of misfortunes had not fallen on a large family. First, my mother died, then one of the brothers died in a duel. Older ...

The original of this work is read in just 5 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. : The calm life of a positive and honest wife is taken over by the sly lace collar that she bought. He pushes the girl to rash acts and destroys her family happiness. Three ...

All the inhabitants of the village were called Yegor Polushkin a scavenger. Where the first two letters disappeared - no one remembered. Even Polushkin’s wife, Kharitin, called her husband “an overseas inhuman” and a “damned poor guy.” Kharitin was from Zaonezhye, and her grievances began from early childhood, when a drunken priest gave her this impossible ...

: Grandfather cured and left a hare with burnt paws, which saved his life - he led out of a terrible forest fire. Once in August, grandfather Larion Malyavin went hunting. There was an unprecedented heat, and the forests were "dry as gunpowder." Grandfather tried to shoot the bunny, but missed, and he fled....

The story takes place in a city on the Volga, in the late XIX - early XX centuries. About sixty years ago, on one of the barges of the rich merchant Zaev, Ignat Gordeev served as an aquifer. Strong, beautiful and intelligent, he was one of those people who do not think about the choice of means and do not know any other law than ...

Venichka Erofeev travels from Moscow to the Moscow region regional center called Petushki. There lives the hero’s chilliness, delightful and unique, to which he travels on Fridays, having bought a bag of “Cornflower” chocolates as a hotel. Venichka Erofeev has already begun his journey. The day before he took a glass of bison, ...

Professor Maria Vladimirovna Kovaleva, director of the Institute of Information Machines, who lives with her two adult sibling sons, feels that she is tired of everyday life and decides to somehow diversify her existence, for example, to cut her hair and change her hair. Waiting for the line at the hairdresser, Maria Vladimirovna ...

: A nine-year-old boy lives the year of his life, during which he encounters meanness, kindness, greed, generosity, death, and quickly grows up. The story is based on the author’s biography. The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century, before the October Socialist Revolution. Narration is underway ...

: A sixth grader talks about his family. He really loves the beautiful mother, dad - a talented surgeon, grouchy grandmother and tries to make sure that they never quarrel. The narration is on behalf of a sixth-grader boy. It's not my business. The Storyteller went to the same school where he once studied. ...

: The old forester tames the trot.Soon the lynx escapes and returns home, but the watchman dies, and the lynx leaves in the northern forests. Chapters one - three Forest watchman Andreich went around his plot. He took the gun with him, but did not intend to hunt - at this time of the year, roe hunting was prohibited, and females ...

: The Story of a Blind Dog. His peculiarity did not prevent him from loving, being courageous and following his main calling - hunting. He died fulfilling his destiny. The narration is on behalf of a man whose name is not mentioned in the story. The hound dog appeared in the city suddenly, no one ...

: Fifteen-year-old fatherless guy grows up a loafer. A man who has arrived from the city is taken for his upbringing, helps him realize himself and makes him think about the future. Gribovo, a high mushroom-shaped hill, is the only place on the Cheremshanka River where there are no mosquitoes. It was here that they built a hut ...

: At a turning point in the history of 1917-1918 the author speaks in newspaper articles about the war, revolution, the fate of the Russian people, whose spiritual salvation is completely dependent on culture and knowledge. The book consists of short notes by M. Gorky, published in the New Life newspaper in Petrograd with ...

: A seriously injured boy helps nature survive in the form of a blue dragonfly flying over a stream. During the First World War of 1914, the narrator, dressed as an orderly, went as a war correspondent to the front and got into a big battle in the west. Once the storyteller walked without paying attention ...

: The narrator believes that small things can travel independently. An example of this is the case with pince-nez, which “left” the narrator, but when he returned, could not endure the punishment and crashed. According to the narrator, “things live their own special lives” - they feel, think, talk and mimic ...

: Little sisters are upset by the story of Tolstoy's “Prisoner of the Caucasus”. The girls come up with a good ending for the story, base a fun game on it and decide that this story is not at all sad. The spring garden was fun and beautiful. The young foliage of birches and the soft needles of old fir turned green ...

In the middle of summer, hayfields began to boil over the Desna. Immediately on the shore they cleared a glade under a brigade camp, weaved low booths from a vine, each for their own family, at a distance they burst a cauldron under a common kulesh, and so many haystacks arose for many miles. Anfiska and her mother had a hut. Grew Anfiska ...