Soviet Fiction

Seit anderthalb Jahren ist Raskolnikow mittlerweile in Sibirien in Haft. Ein Rückblick zeigt, dass er zu acht Jahren Zwangsarbeit aufgrund mildernder Umstände verurteilt wurde. Dunja hat mittlerweile Rasumichin geheiratet, doch ist seine Mutter in der Zwischenzeit verstorben. Sonja hat sich entschieden, mit Raskolnikow zu gehen, lebt in der Nähe des Lagers und hält per Brief Kontakt zu Rasumichin und Dunja.

Raskolnikow befindet sich noch immer im Unklaren bezüglich vieler Ereignisse. So belastet ihn unter anderem das Verhältnis zu Swidrigajlow, der ihn näher kennenlernen möchte. Andererseits weiß er die Zuneigung Sonjas zu schätzen, wenngleich dies der einzige Lichtblick ist. Dunja erhält einen Brief, dass der vermeintliche Mörder die Tat gestanden habe. Kurz darauf erscheint Petrowitsch überraschend und bittet darum, mit Raskolnikow reden zu dürfen.

Champagne is a short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, written in 1887. The story is written in the first person. The young head of a remote railway stop lived with his wife and without children in solitude, amusing himself with vodka and watching passing trains. Life was boring. One day before celebrating the New Year, he sat with his wife at the festive table, drank enough and thought about boredom. We waited for the clock to show the arrival of the New Year. At five minutes to twelve he uncorked the bottle, the cork flew out, and the bottle slipped out of his hands and fell to the floor.

Miguev, a married, intelligent collegiate assessor, is haunted with anxiety and worry. Miguev has a secret that he doesn't want his wife, the town, or his colleagues to discover. His mistress, after becoming pregnant and having his child, has recently tried to extort money from him in exchange for her silence. She threatens to ruin his reputation and divulge his secret shame to everyone unless he pays her. In the height of his fear and worry about his present situation, his fears seem to come alive when he discovers a baby bundled in a blanket on his porch.

The First Lover is a famous story by Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The main character, Evgeny Alekseevich Podzharov, tells the guests a story about his love adventure. However, the story causes slight bewilderment and makes one of the listeners blush.

In Exile was first published in May 1892 issue of the Vsemirnaya Illustratsiya magazine. The story was inspired by Chekhov's journey through Siberia and his stay in Sakhalin and, in particular, two episodes of this trip. While on Sakhalin, Anton Chekhov met a boatman nicknamed Krasivy, a self-professed 'happy man' who struck him with his own peculiar brand of Tolstovian philosophy. It was Krasivy, apparently, who became a prototype for Semyon Tolkovy, the story's hero.

Misery by Anton Chekhov is a short story that explores the working-class, human despair, and suffering in Tsarist Russia. Chekhov's brief portrait of working-class life follows a sledge driver named Iona as he attempts to process his grief about his son's untimely death.

When several employees of the bank are arrested for corruption, the merchant Avdeyev doesn't give the ordeal much thought, figuring the men going to jail deserve it. His opinion changes however when he returns home to find his wife and son very upset - his house had just been searched by officials in connection to the bank corruption. Avdeyev had signed papers for the bankers without knowing what they were and so had essentially signed his life away by his carelessness. During the following trial, he learns the danger of being a "sheep" and just following along without a mind of his own.

Doctor Starchenko and Lyzhin, a young deputy examining magistrate, arrive at Syrnya to attend to the case of Lesnitsky, an insurance agent, who, upon arrival to the village three days before, entered the local zemstvo house, ordered himself a samovar, unpacked his food packets, and then all of as sudden shot himself. The suicide was so bizarre, that the inquest was deemed to be necessary.

In Old Age by Anton Chekhov we have the theme of change, loss, renewal, memories, guilt and despair. Taken from his The Complete Stories collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and very early on in the story the reader realises that Chekhov may be exploring the theme of change. Since Uzelkov has returned to his hometown he cannot imagine the differences the town has undertaken. It is not the place that he has left and there is a sense of modernity. Even the old waiter cannot remember the parts of the town that Uzelkov can.

The Looking Glass is a short story by Anton Chekhov about a young woman named Nellie who is sitting in her room and staring into a mirror. Nellie is dreamy and lost in thoughts of her future and the man she loves. As she stares into the mirror, she sees the reflection of her future husband and begins to imagine her life with him. Suddenly, Nellie's dream is interrupted by a crisis. Her husband is ill and Nellie rushes to the doctor's house for help.

В настоящую аудиокнигу Миры Великого Мастера включены наиболее знаковые произведения Михаила Булгакова. Попадая в удивительный мир писателя, читатель остается покоренным его талантом, мастерством и фантазией с первых до последних строк. Богато и разнообразно творческое наследие выдающегося писателя Михаила Булгакова.

Eine Nase entweicht ihrem Besitzer und geht promenieren; ein verarmter Maler entdeckt eine Menge Golddukaten im Rahmen eines preiswert erworbenen Porträts; -unterdrückt und gepeinigt im Beruf und hoffnungslos verliebt, flüchtet sich ein Titularrat in seine eigene Welt, der Eindruck eines normalen Menschen wandelt sich zusehends in das Bild eines hoffnungslosen Phantasten und Verrückten; - die Anschaffung eines neuen Mantels wird einem Kopisten zum Verhängnis; zwei Bauern, die ein Leben lang gute Nachbarn waren, geraten plötzlich in Streit, weil sich Iwan Iwanowitsch in den Kopf setzt, Iwan Nikiforowitschs altes Gewehr gegen sein braunes Schwein einzuhandeln.

The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events. They take place in the former Soviet Union, the United States, and the emigration in-between.

Anton Chekhov was a Russian writer who wrote short stories and plays. His short stories are still read by many people around the world. The short story, The First Class Passenger by Anton Chekov, was first published in 1886 and reflects the social background of the Russian society of that time.

One great example of Chekhov's minimalism is found in The Beauties, a very short "story" - I use the term loosely, because it is really just two snapshots, two unrelated anecdotes in which a man describes seeing true beauty in two different women. These women are imperfect, yet enigmatically alluring. Chekhov's genius lies in the way he manages to convey with such apparent effortlessness a profound sense of the mystery of beauty, and of the sadness of those who observe and think.

"Мастер и Маргарита", роман о дьяволе Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова, работа над которым началась в декабре 1928 года и продолжалась вплоть до смерти писателя в марте 1940 года. Булгаков работал над своим "закатным романом" более 12 лет, неоднократно его переписывал. Многие черновики, к сожалению, безвозвратно утрачены, но оставшийся архив писателя - огромное рукописное богатство. Первые наброски, варианты и редакции романа представляют огромный интерес.

Зойкина квартира — трагический фарс в трех актах знаменитого русского писателя, драматурга и театрального деятеля Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова (1891–1940). Действие происходит в Москве, незадолго после большевистской революции. В квартиру Зои Михайловны вламывается председатель домкома товарищ Портупея и сообщает, что ее шестикомнатную квартиру положено "уплотнить". Дескать, по-буржуйски это, одной такую жилплощадь занимать, и свободные комнаты требуется подселить новых жильцов.

Пьеса Михаила Булгакова, в которой описан техногенный конец света в результате газовой войны. Во время химической войны из-под контроля выходит т. н. Солнечный Газ и человечество гибнет, в живых остаются лишь несколько человек, живущих отныне в коммуне. Пьесу не смогли опубликовать или поставить при жизни Булгакова. Приговор цензуры был суров: "ставить эту пьесу нельзя, так как там погибает Ленинград". Впервые она вышла в 1971 году, в Париже. В СССР её выпустили в октябре 1987 года.

Пьеса Булгакова Багровый остров была написана по мотивам одноименного сатирического фельетона. Этот блестящий политический памфлет отражал все события, происходящие в России, начиная с февральской революции. Используя имена героев сочинений Жюля Верна и Киплинга, автор мастерски выписал самые яркие политические фигуры того времени с присущим ему неподражаемым сарказмом. Неудивительно, что при жизни Булгакова пьеса не была опубликована.