Childhood
For that shot and sent to the camps for schoolchildren and students from the literature club
In early February 1952, a trial was held in Moscow for a week. Accused students who organized an alternative literary circle. However, over half of the team, his goals have changed. However, in the last months of activity, students and first-year students were under the watchful supervision of “outdoor activities”. Of the 16 people, three were sentenced to death, and three were sentenced to 10 years in camps. The rest of the ten gave 25 years.
Literary circle
They were just students. They believed in a bright future, read a lot, enjoyed the opening of the children’s library. One of the high school girls was Susanna Pechuro. Continue reading
Which literary prophecy of the great science fiction writer and the “father of steampunk” Jules Verne have come true after 150 years
Science fiction is usually referred to as stories that describe what technologies may exist in the future, and what they will mean for the people of that time. Although the term “science fiction” was not used until the 1930s, as a genre it began to gain momentum much earlier. And today we can only wonder how accurate were the literary prophecies of Jules Verne
When nineteenth-century thinkers and storytellers faced an era of incredible technological progress and social and industrial change, it is logical that they began to wonder what these changes meant for the world in which they lived, as well as to make certain predictions as to where they would all lead. Continue reading
What is the secret of Semyon Nadson’s poems, which 100 years ago was more popular than Pushkin
About a hundred years ago, this poet’s popularity almost surpassed Pushkin himself – and thanks to the poems that hit the tone of the time, and thanks to the history of his life – a short and tragic. Now this success is difficult to explain – the modern reader has different views and other prophets. Or maybe Nadson’s work has yet to regain its former glory when the suffering and experiences of a person who does not find his place in life cease to be condescendingly depreciated.
Childhood, which was not
The literary success of Semyon Yakovlevich Nadson was amazing – the youth of the late XIX – early XX century literally swept away from the shelves of bookstores collections of poems of the poet. Continue reading