Classic Russian Dramas

Anna Karenina: Adapted for Modern Readers invites you into Tolstoy’s timeless masterpiece with fresh clarity and ease. This carefully refreshed edition features clean, distraction-free formatting, contemporary typography, and lightly clarified language that makes the prose more fluid without losing its original music. The result is a highly readable text that preserves Tolstoy’s voice, characters, and sweeping narrative while removing the barriers that often keep modern readers from fully engaging with this classic. Set in 19th-century Russian high society, Anna Karenina explores love, ...

Radiokompozicija po motivam sobranija novell "Dekameron" ital'janskogo pisatelja Dzhovanni Bokkachcho, odnoj iz samyh znamenityh knig rannego ital'janskogo Renessansa, napisannoj priblizitel'no v 1352-1354 gody. Bol'shinstvo novell jetoj knigi posvjashheno teme ljubvi, nachinaja ot ejo jeroticheskogo i zakanchivaja tragicheskim aspektami. Struktura sochinenija dvojaka - ispol'zuetsja »ramochnaja kompozicija« so vstavnymi novellami.

The action of this, the most famous play of the great English poet and playwright William Shakespeare, takes place in Elsinore, shortly after the death of the King of Denmark. Heartbroken, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, suffers greatly over the death of his beloved father and the sudden remarriage of his mother, Queen Gertrude. A terrible ghost of his father, in full military dress, tells him a terrible secret: that the king did not die a natural death, but was killed by the hand of his brother Claudius, who became the current king.

The Three Sisters is Anton Chekhov's 1901 play about the Prosorov family, who are stuck in a provincial Russian town. The sisters - Olga, Masha, and Irina - fantasize about one day returning to Moscow. Meanwhile, their brother Andrey courts village girl Natasha, and the family socializes with the soldiers stationed nearby. Dreams, longing, and illicit love drive the action of Chekhov's comic drama.

Irine, mladshej iz trjoh sestjor Prozorovyh, ispolnjaetsja dvadcat' let. «Na dvore solnechno, veselo», a v zale nakryvaetsja stol, zhdut gostej - oficerov raskvartirovannoj v gorode artillerijskoj batarei i novogo ejo komandira podpolkovnika Vershinina. Vse polny radostnyh ozhidanij i nadezhd.

Pohishhennyj, ili Prikljuchenija Djevida Bjelfura, v kotoryh rasskazyvaetsja o tom, kak on byl pohishhen i popal v korablekrushenie, kak tomilsja na neobitaemom ostrove i skitalsja v dikih gorah, kak sud'ba svela ego s Alanom Brekom Stjuartom i drugimi jarymi shotlandskimi jakobitami, a takzhe obo vsem, chto on preterpel ot ruk svoego djadi Jebenezera Bjelfura, imenuemogo vladel'cem zamka Shos bez vsjakogo na to prava, opisannye im samim i predlagaemye nyne vashemu vnimaniju Robertom Luisom Stivensonom.

Eto poslednee avtobiograficheskoe proizvedenie pisatelja. Proza Osipa Mandel'shtama otnositsja k vershinam russkoj izjashhnoj slovesnosti. Malen'kij chelovek v vodovorote revoljucii. Intelligent - malen'kij, robkij, bednyj pytaetsja ostanovit' letom 1917 goda samosud ozverevshej revoljucionnoj tolpy nad karmannikom. Strashno, no nikuda ne det'sja - sovest'... Etot shedevr jarkoj intellektual'noj prozy razvivaet klassicheskuju temu pushkinskogo i gogolevskogo Peterburga.

Shakespeare's Sonnets cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality. The first 17 poems, traditionally called the procreation sonnets, are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation. Other sonnets brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; seem to criticize the young man for preferring a rival poet; and more. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime. Shakespeare's use of his poetic dramatic structure, especially effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, his expansion of minor characters, and his use of subplots to embellish the story, has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill.

Radiokompozicija spektaklja "Mesjac v derevne" po odnoimennoj p'ese I. S. Turgeneva. P'esa dvazhdy menjala nazvanie (prezhnie - "Student", "Dve zhenshhiny"). Opublikovana v 1855 godu. V osnove p'esy lezhit ljubovnyj chetyrjohugol'nik. Natal'ja Petrovna, zhena bogatogo pomeshhika Arkadija Sergeicha Islaeva, vljubljaetsja v Alekseja Nikolaevicha Beljaeva (21 god) - studenta, uchitelja Koli Islaeva. Mihail Aleksandrovich Rakitin - drug sem'i, uzhe davno ljubit Natal'ju Petrovnu.

Povest' «Drama na ohote» velikogo russkogo pisatelja Antona Pavlovicha Chehova (1860-1904) byla sozdana v 1885 godu i izvestna vsem pochitateljam otechestvennogo kinematografa. Po povesti byl snjat kinofil'm «Moj laskovyj i nezhnyj zver'». «Drama na ohote» imeet podzagolovok «Iz zapisok sudebnogo sledovatelja» i napominaet ugolovnyj roman.

Spektakl MHAT im. Gorkogo. 20 fevralja 1598 g. Uzhe mesjac, kak Boris Godunov zatvorilsja vmeste so svoej sestroj v monastyre, pokinuv «vse mirskoe» i otkazyvajas' prinjat' moskovskij prestol. Narod ob#jasnjaet otkaz Godunova venchat'sja na carstvo v nuzhnom dlja Borisa duhe: «Ego strashit sijanie prestola».

Leonato, governor of Messina sun that in Sicily, welcomes in his house Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, who had arrived in the city accompanied by a retinue after the victorious conclusion of the war. Prince thanks for the hospitality and is Leonato two friends, two brave officers, young and noble Florentine Claudio and Signior Benedick of Padua.

Pervonachal'no Lessing sobiralsja napisat' tragediju «Virginija» - na sjuzhet o rimskoj Virginii. Sohranilsja nabrosok pervoj sceny etoj tragedii. Odnako vskore Lessing otkazalsja ot obrabotki dalekogo ot ego vremeni antichnogo sjuzheta, reshiv perenesti dejstvie iz drevnego Rima v sovremennuju emu jepohu. Na russkij jazyk tragedija byla perevedena vpervye N. M. Karamzinym v 1788 g.

"Milostivye gosudaryni i milostivye gosudari" - radiopostanovka po jumoristicheskim rasskazam Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Za 26 let tvorchestva Chehov sozdal okolo 900 razlichnyh proizvedenij (korotkih jumoristicheskih rasskazov, ser'joznyh povestej, p'es), mnogie iz kotoryh stali klassikoj mirovoj literatury.

Radiospektakl' "Zavtrak u predvoditelja" po odnoimennoj p'ese russkogo pisatelja Ivana Sergeevicha Turgeneva. Predvoditel' dvorjanstva priglashaet na zavtrak rodstvennikov - brata i sestru - kotorye uzhe mnogo let ne mogu podelit' dostavsheesja im po nasledstvu imenie. Cel' vstrechi - primirit' vrazhdujushhie storon i postarat'sja reshit' vopros poljubovno i mirno.

"Leshij" - komedija v 4 dejstvijah Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Napisana v 1889 godu. V "Leshem", kak i vo vseh proizvedenija Chehova nashli otrazhenie vse cherty nacional'nogo russkogo haraktera i priznak vremeni - utrata duhovnyh cennostej, sposobnost' k sochuvstviju, gotovnost' soperezhivat' gore i radost'.

14 let p'esa Ivana Turgeneva "Nahlebnik" nahodilas' pod cenzurnym zapretom. Otnoshenie k nej bylo neodnoznachnym. Gogol' schital p'esu beznravstvennoj, zato Gercen otzyvalsja o nej vostorzhenno: "Drama, kotoruju pishet Turgenev - prosto objaden'e." Sjuzhet p'esy prost: v dome Ol'gi Petrovny Eleckoj zhivet "na hlebah" obednevshij dvorjanin Kuzovkin - chelovek dobryj, no besharakternyj. I mog li hot' kto-nibud' predpolozhit', chto odno sluchajno proiznesennoe im slovo mozhet tak kruto izmenit' sud'bu vseh geroev jetoj istorii...

Спектакль "Потерянное письмо" по одноименной комедии румынского писателя, драматурга И.Л.Караджале (1852 - 1912). Действие комедии разворачивается в провинциальном городке вокруг парламентских выборов. Они проходят в обстановке произвола, шантажа, подкупа, закулисных махинаций, типичных для буржуазно-помещичьей Румынии. Абсолютную неразборчивость в средствах достижения успеха демонстрируют обе партии - правящая и оппозиционная....

In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father's will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. Portia is most remembered for her disguise as a lawyer, Balthazar, especially the speech in which she urges Shylock to show mercy that "[D]roppeth as the gentle rain from heaven". Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.