The action dates back to the middle of the 16th century, to the period of the Reformation. Michael Kolhaas, the protagonist of the story, earns a living by breeding and selling horses. This is a simple and fair person, highly appreciating his honor and dignity. Once he goes to Leipzig and, crossing the border, sees
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That summer I rented a room in Aunt Olya’s small wooden house. Once she decided to plant flowers and asked me to loosen the ground in the flowerbed. Working with a shovel, I asked: why does my mistress never decorate a flower bed with poppies, because these are such beautiful flowers. Aunt Olya replied that she believed ...
(220 words) The poem "Dead Souls" is a kind of reference book of Russian life in the 19th century. The author describes the people that even the current reader can meet, and the events that we are familiar with today. One of the most memorable and “eternal” images in the work is the landowner Sobakevich, the main ...
Part 1 At the fur farm "Mshaga" Praskovyushka usually looked after arctic foxes. Before the holidays, the director of the fur farm, Peter Erofeich Nekrasov, deprived her of the prize. This turned out to be a real blow for the employee - she already had her own plans for the award, she wanted to help her sister with three children. She walked all day ...
The fat knight Falstaff and some other comedic characters of Henry IV appear again in this play - Judge Schell, pompous brawler Pistol, mischievous page of Falstaff, drunkard Bardolph. The action takes place in the city of Windsor and is frankly farcical in nature. In front of Page, wealthy Windsor ...
Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich had twelve sons from different wives. The third oldest was Svyatopolk. Svyatopolk’s mother, a nun, was tidied up and married as Yaropolk, brother of Vladimir. Vladimir killed Yaropolk and captured his wife when she was pregnant. He adopted Svyatopolk, but did not like ...
In society, it is customary to condemn cruelty. But few people remember that indifference can be no less terrible, because sometimes it is inextricably linked with cruelty. Often it breeds hatred and injustice, so the price of indifference is very high, and society always pays this fee in full. Cruelty ...
(272 words) In Pushkin's work “Station Warden” there are two main characters - this is Samson Vyrin and his daughter, Dunya. Speaking only of the old caretaker, we often lose sight of the image of the culprit of his tragedy, and it is she who is the driving force behind the plot. It is in it that young readers recognize ...
Riders are not just equestrians: the whole estate was called in Athens - those who had enough money to keep a war horse. These were wealthy people, had small estates outside the city, lived on their income, and wanted Athens to be a peaceful, closed agricultural state. Poet ...
I-VII This strange, mysterious thing happened on June 19, 19 .. Kornet Elagin killed his mistress, artist Maria Sosnovskaya. Yelagin as if born as an officer - ten generations of his ancestors served. When he was stripped of his officer rank, he sobbed. Elagin came from a noble and wealthy family. His mother, ...
In the city of Murom, Prince Paul ruled. The devil sent a flying serpent to his wife for fornication. She appeared to her in her form, and to other people seemed Prince Paul. The princess admitted everything to her husband, but he did not know what to do. He told his wife to ask the serpent, from which death could come to him. The serpent told ...
The novel is a family chronicle with a sequel. The events described in the novel unfold in Paris in the 19th century. and begin with the fact that in 1815, having served in the French National Guard, Florent Bussardel, the son of a prominent customs officer who had just passed away, returned to the bosom of the family ...
The first night. The second night. It was already four in the morning, when a crowd of young friends burst into Faust’s room, either philosophers or game-burners. It seemed to them that Faust knew everything. No wonder he surprised everyone with his manners and neglected secular decencies and prejudices. Faust met friends ...
The name of the Old Norse (Icelandic) hero - Fridhjofr (Fridhjofr) consists of two parts: fridh - peace, peace and thjofr - thief, that is, means "Thief of the world." The main source of the poem is the Old Norse saga about Fridtjof the Bold, which developed at the end of the XIII or the beginning of the XIV century. It tells about events, ...
In his introduction, the author recalls the musician Navadagu, who once sang a song about Hiawatha: About his wonderful birth, About his great life: How he fasted and prayed, How Hiawatha worked, So that his people would be happy, So that he would go to good and truth . The supreme deity of the Indians, Gitchi Manito ...
: 1933 year. An orphan boy from a village located on the Yenisei is experiencing the most hungry winter in his life. Good luck to his family brings a puppy, saved from fierce death in a snowdrift. In 1933, the village where the boy Vitya lived "was crushed by hunger." There were no pigeons, the dogs and the noisy gangs of boys fell silent....
Introduction It often seems to us that wealth is the destiny of special people and not everyone is given the chance to be successful and rich. We are not even trying to get out of the vicious circle in which there is no place for great achievements and wealth. Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich offers ways to fight our ...
In this book, Lewis Carroll, a big fan of puzzles, paradoxes and “shifters,” the author of the already famous “Alice in Wonderland,” sends her beloved heroine girl Alice to another fairyland - Through the Looking Glass. Like last time, Alice embarks on an adventure thanks to her curious ...
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