They seated Big John, brought another bench and settled on it in a green and white swarm. And thoughts, eyes, and ears were now tensely occupied only with Bi...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the works of L. Charskaya (1875–1937) were extremely popular among young people. Her numerous stories and novels sang s...

Several sad notes sang melancholy under the clumsy children's fingers. But the little hunchback’s faithful and sensitive ear did not allow a single false sou...

Russian writer Lydia Charskaya (1875–1937), whose work was forgotten for many decades, enjoyed exceptional popularity at the beginning of the century and was...

One summer, a girl accidentally left the garden on the river bank and disappeared... Following the tracks on the ground, we were convinced that she had gone ...

I want to say something else and I can’t... My thoughts are spinning like birds of fire, and my soul is burning as if on fire. Vague images appear before me....

“The girl with elongated greenish-gray eyes and a thin, pale, dark face was nicknamed Sphinx. She seemed somehow special. And she dressed better than the oth...

Russian writer Lydia Charskaya (1875–1937), whose work was forgotten for many decades, enjoyed exceptional popularity at the beginning of the century and was...

This book is the first part of the autobiographical trilogy of L. A. Charskaya, a writer who enjoyed wide fame at the beginning of the twentieth century. The...