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"Quiet Pools" by Emil Braginsky and Eldar Ryazanov, summary
The text was written in 1998. The work was born from the reunion of the famous creative duo after an eight-year hiatus to work on a comedy about love. This book is the story of a successful doctor who leaves his established life behind to find himself.
"Only with You: Anti-Fan" by Anna Jane, summary
Anna Jane’s novel was published in 2021; the print edition is 512 pages long, and the story itself is the first in a series that continues with "Only with You: Antihero." It’s a romance novel with a palpable psychological threat: the feelings between the characters are juxtaposed from the very beginning with Natasha’s past trauma and the danger that becomes apparent again by the end.
"The Same Munchausen" by Grigory Gorin, summary
This 1979 film script upends the familiar myth of the famous literary character. The author portrays Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchausen as a brutally honest, tragicomic philosopher.
"The Third Key" by Tatyana Korsakova, summary
Tatyana Korsakova’s 2011 detective novel "The Third Key" is a mystical work in which detective investigation is closely intertwined with family secrets of the past and paranormal phenomena. The
"Three Days of Indigo" by Sergei Lukyanenko, summary
"Three Days of Indigo" is a 2021 novel by Sergey Lukyanenko, the second book in the "Changed" series, continuing the events of "Seven Days to Megiddo." The action takes place in post-apocalyptic Moscow, where the alien Insec has destroyed the Moon, turning it into a Lunar Ring containing large fragments—Selena and Diana.
Alexander Ostrovsky’s "Hard-earned Bread," a summary
This book is a classic play of Russian realism, written in 1874. The playwright juxtaposes two opposing worlds against the backdrop of Moscow’s bourgeois world. Honest poverty clashes harshly with the thirst for easy money.
"The Corpse in the Library" by Agatha Christie, summary
The novel begins in the quiet English village of St. Mary Mead, in the Gossington Hall estate, owned by Colonel Arthur Bantry and his wife Dolly. One morning, their measured life is disrupted by a shocking event - the maid Mary discovers the body of an unknown young woman in the library.
"Dumb artist" N.S. Leskova: two sides of the Russian character
Once Leskov was called the most Russian writer of all Russian writers, a man who knows the soul of an ordinary peopleIndeed, each work of the author is imbued with love for the Motherland and the Russian people. Leskov knows what the people live: he is having fun and suffering with him, having fun and crying.
Turandot by Carlo Gozzi, summary
Carlo Gozzi’s tragicomic tale was performed in 1761. The author deliberately abandoned theatrical magic typical of his work. The playwright wanted to prove to strict critics his absolute ability to hold audiences’ attention through sheer dramatic tension.
A summary of "The Cloud" by Arkady Strugatsky
The 1986 science fiction screenplay "Cloud," based on the novella "Ugly Swans," is distinguished by its unique atmosphere of doom and hopeA crucial detail of this work is that the authors completely eliminated the mysterious mutant midges from the plot, leaving Cloud itself as the primary embodiment of the approaching Future.
"You Are My Happiness" by Asya Lavrinovich, summary
Asya Lavrinovich’s novel "You Are My Happiness" was published in 2020Its plot centers on the journey that changes the relationship between Maya Mikhailova and Bogdan Volkov. Narrated from Maya’s perspective, the story is immediately tinged with her long-held, almost childish love and the constant expectation that Bogdan will one day see her as a woman, not his friend’s younger sister.
"You’re a Wonderful Friend" by Asya Lavrinovich, summary
"You’re a Wonderful Friend" by Asya Lavrinovich is a teen story about how a familiar friendship gradually reveals itself as loveThe online version ends in 2016. This is important for reading the text, as the entire story hinges not on superficial intrigue, but on Inna’s slow, painful recognition of her own feelings.
"You, Me, and Paris" by Tatyana Korsakova, summary
Tatyana Korsakova’s novel "You, Me, and Paris," published in 2012, is a profoundly dramatic love story, intertwining themes of fatal misconceptions, difficult family secrets, and the struggle for a child’s life.
A summary of Alexander Ostrovsky’s "Hard Days"
This comedy is a logical continuation of the famous play "A Hangover at Someone Else’s Feast," written in 1863. The plot once again revolves around the family of the despotic merchant Tit Titych Bruskov.