A certain artist in his studio on Znamenka is painting another “Bather”. During a break from work, he, waiting for the coffee pot to boil, listens to the sto...
A young officer comes to his mistress, who lives on his support, and learns unexpected and unpleasant news: the woman with whom he is accustomed to sharing a...
That summer, the wolves became especially prolific and even killed a sheep right in the village yard. Therefore, a ride on a cart on the road to a field on a...
Eighteen-year-old student Meshchersky came on vacation to his uncle’s estate, where he traditionally “played love” with his cousin Sonya. And then her friend...
He is a first class passenger, a man of about thirty, a recently famous writer, and she is a married woman from the lower deck, from the third class, touchin...
An amorous student Levitsky came to Doctor Danilevsky's dacha in the summer, where he could not choose with whom to have an affair: with Daria Tadievna, a di...
Once, on the way from Crimea to St. Petersburg, during a short stop at a small railway station near Podolsk, I remembered my youth, the holidays spent in the...
He hadn’t been there since he was nineteen—he didn’t go, he kept putting it off. And now he had to take advantage of the only and last opportunity to visit O...