Missing Certificate

This story begins with the complaints of Foma Grigoryevich against those listeners who try to elicit from him “a yaku insured Kazochka”, and then tremble under the covers all night. Then, however, he proceeds to the story of what happened to his grandfather, whom the noble hetman sent with some kind of letter to the queen. Grandfather,

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Egyptian darkness

: A rural woman drinks a bottle of belladonna, a miller takes ten quinine powders at once, a man sticks a mustard plaster on a sheepskin coat. These cases prompt the young doctor to fight the darkness of ignorance. The narration is on behalf of a young doctor, whose name is not mentioned in the story. Action going on ...

The living and the dead

On June 25, 1941, Masha Artemyeva escorted her husband Ivan Sintsov to the war. Sintsov goes to Grodno, where their one-year-old daughter remained and where he himself served as secretary of the army newspaper for a year and a half. Located near the border, Grodno from the very first days gets to the bulletins, ...

Cell notes

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The fictional island of Pianos in the Mediterranean Sea, the US Air Force base invented by the author’s fantasy. It is a very real second world war. However, each of the many characters of this vast literary fresco has its own war, for the sake of victory in which they spare neither strength nor life, ...

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