"You want an animal's happiness, but life will not let you get drunk and be happy, and sometimes it will be strangled with blows."

Women are unpredictable. From them you can wait for anything.

A young widow still mourns for her husband, but she is bored with her alone. That would meet a real man! He would have been her support in life, and she would have surrounded him with care.

But some impudent person comes to her estate, who demands that she immediately give away the money that his husband owed him.

How dare he talk so insolently with a woman! Yes, he is handsome, tall and stately. In addition, a brave military man. But completely ill-mannered! Maybe I should fall into a swoon?

Here such cheat! Lured all the same guy.

And the second lady to match her. For a long time she misses the girls. It would Seem to be happy for any groom. And a familiar neighbor came to her, a decent and decent man.

True, a little zanudliv. But this is not the main thing.

And she absolutely tortured him with cavils. So you can stay without a husband!

It's good that her father hinted at the purpose of his neighbor's visit.

But will the young people be happy?

"In family life, the most important screw is love."

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He was considered a "rebel demon".

Rudolf Nureyev, one of the best dancers of the twentieth century. He lived a short but stormy life.

An explosive temperament, a frenzied energy, a huge love for the ballet. And besides - unbending will and ability to overcome difficulties.

He was born in Ufa, in a poor Tatar family. All that he achieved in the art of ballet, made his work and talent.

How hard it was for him among the envious and malicious slanderers! Very young, he survived the betrayal of his colleagues.

Therefore, on tour of the Russian ballet in Paris, he decided to stay in France.

Then he did not even imagine that in a few years he would lead the ballet of the Paris National Opera.

Nureyev brilliantly danced all the best parts in the classical ballet repertoire. But he also loved modern dance.

He died young. Tragic was the fate of a remarkable artist.

The extraordinary life of someone called the "star of world ballet."

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Arnolf did not just take up Agnes for education: he dreams of growing an ideal wife out of her. After all, women are unreliable creatures, and strive to impose horns on their spouses! Arnolf does not agree to put up with such a fate, he himself will plunge his principles into his head - of course, the most pious! - and there you can play a wedding ...

But only the girl, no matter how she brought up, still some day fall in love with some handsome ... Is Arlolf's complex plan doomed to failure? .. Could he have foreseen how his "school" will end?

Indeed, women are insidious creatures!

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"Who looks at the body, he always talks about the soul."

Aristocrat Ferdinand, in love with Louise, a modest and sweet girl, the daughter of a musician. And she reciprocates.

His father has his own plans. He dreams of marrying his son on the duke's favorite. Career first!

Ferdinand is furious. They want to marry someone's mistress!

But the secretary of the president, who is also in love with Louise, wavers intrigues.

He scares the girl. She says that she will put her father in jail. He deceives Louise to write a love letter under his dictation. It will be his trump card in the fight against Ferdinand.

Ferdinand reads this letter. Did she betray him? He will challenge the opponent to a duel!

Blind jealousy torments him. He is preparing his terrible fate for his beloved.

Is he so cruel?

"Treachery and love walk alongside. Command perfidy there parade. "

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Chekhov - beloved, dear, close, understandable ...

Four brothers and a sister, a nice, friendly family. In the summer - fishing, in the winter - Cossack songs, amicably, harmoniously: "It's full, you, snowballs ..."

And then - the first love: the sister brought her friend Lika back to the house ...

Then the young Chekhov will go on a trip to Sakhalin and return to our already quite familiar Chekhov, in a pince-nez, with a mustache and beard.

With Lika will have to leave, she will go to Paris with another writer. She will write letters, and Chekhov - will write to her in reply: sweet correspondence, where youth, and feelings, and mature reflections - everything is clear, everything is told - from heart to heart.

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We are not insane. The world around us is crazy.

You do not have to laugh at patients. They need to be diagnosed.

Or diagnose yourself. And the whole society.

And we all just moved with the mind. We are all absolutely crazy. On how to look better, how much to earn, on what car to go, what restaurants to go to. If you walk at all ...

We all play by somebody's rules. We accept everything as it is. And completely forget how it should be in reality.

We forget about the Russian land, about our country, our roots. That upset your soul.

Enough to be guests in your own country. Shake off the soul hangover nonsense .. And today I'll come back to you, my nelaskaya Russia.

The purer a person, the stronger he is attached to his native land.

But there is always someone who knows the truth.

Listen, listen. He will tell you the whole truth.

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Where does the dream end and reality begin? Where does life end and art begins? He himself was never able to tell where his pretense ends and sincerity begins.

But even great psychologists can not understand where genius ends and madness begins.

Moody, hysterical, eccentric to insanity. Nobody so loved to attract attention.

Kiss, kiss it from head to foot, from the big toes on the feet through the crown to the heels. All is in love and kindness.

And the only suit worthy of him is the king's clothes. Or the queens. As his highness willed.

The world will have to make room. And it's a big question whether he will keep it.

You can treat it differently, but you can not recognize its genius. He was a genius in the womb of his mother. Who else could create his art from dreams?

Canvas, paints, powerful strokes - so a miracle is born. Thus the chief troublemaker of the tranquility of the inhabitants is born.

But to really soar into heaven, he lacked only her ... The last step to the summit of the world.

Shock. Catharsis. Applause.

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"I dreamed of a garden in a wedding dress, in this garden we are together with you. The stars in the sky, the stars on the sea, the stars and in my heart. "

They peacefully sing romances, but the shadow of the coming revolution has already fallen on such a cozy house. The clouds are gathering. The storm is just around the corner.

Guests are chatting on the summer veranda. All my family, the manufacturer's family, their friends and acquaintances gathered. The head of the family soon intends to take his sick wife to Yalta to Chekhov, hoping that the former doctor will cure his wife of consumption.

They are waiting for the famous singer, who promised to sing Russian romances for them. And they themselves love to sing, sincerely, captivating.

Almost twenty songs! From the most famous to rarely performed, on the verses of Lermontov, Pushkin, Tyutchev and unknown authors.

Some of them, for example, "The Black Shawl", will not be sung, but played out as a mischievous theatrical performance.

The guests gathered at the dacha veranda on the day of Chekhov's death. Very soon - the first Russian revolution.

But there is still time to sing a captivating romance about the first dates.

"Leaves are a whisper or wind gusts sensitive soul I greedily catch. The eyes are deep, the mouth is silent: dear, oh dear, I love. "

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Want to overhear the confession of the treacherous Don Juan? Yes, yes, true confession. An unrecoverable seducer admits everything. He, it turns out, loved many women, but - that's the surprise! - chaste!

Don Juan, it turns out, completely innocent, just very much amorous and knows how to admire the ladies.

That's bad luck! When you learn this, you will look at life in a completely different way. Only should I trust the words of the eloquent Don Juan? The seducers are always on their mind ...

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Deaf-blind ... Sounds like a verdict.

But it is always important not the position where you are, but the direction in which you are moving. And she always went only forward!

Little Ellen not only managed to overcome the gravest illness, but she gave all her strength to fight for the right to live a decent life.

Having lost sight and hearing in a year and a half, a small American woman has not lost her fighting character. Her family was in a panic! How to help the girl?

She was lucky. At seven she met an amazing teacher, a woman who became her second mother for her.

Slowly and gradually, she taught the child the difficult language of signs and gestures. It was invented by the monks three hundred years ago for communication among the initiates.

Ellen turned out to be a diligent student. Nobody believed in her success!

And she became a celebrity. I graduated from college, then - a university in the USA.

I wrote several books. I met with well-known writers and politicians of my time.

The courage and kind heart of Ellen Keller helped her live happily.

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Ninety-eight years old, but he is still called affectionately and somehow childish - Venya. He saw with his own eyes a long, eventful, upheaval, a succession of faces, joys, misfortunes of the twentieth century. And he remained - a modest, dreamy intellectual, able to see poetry in both everyday and grandiose.

On his birthday he remembers his life. While his daughter is selling an apartment (whether a joke or an apartment in the center of St. Petersburg!), Venya gives herself over to memories. Here is his mother, a reserved, well-bred woman. But those girls and ladies who left an indelible mark on his soul.

To sweep the thought through the past, examine it through the eyes of a man who has seen the species, pay tribute to changes, indulge in nostalgia, admire the city on the Neva and its inhabitants - all this allows a spectacle in which the spring mood reigns, after all, it's the turn of April!

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Too strong, too passionate, too loving was Medea for Jason.

She deceived the golden fleece for him, she - once a princess - refused for him from wealth and honors ... Could she not rely on his faithfulness, gratitude? ..

But he could not love her as hard and selflessly as she was his.

And now he was tired of her. He marries the daughter of the king, naive and simple. Medeju asked to get out.

Well, then she will cease to be submissive, and her love, turning with terrible hatred, will be disastrous: she once gave life to her children, now she wants to kill them - this is her revenge on their father, who betrayed her to Jason.

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