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- Herausgeber: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022
Moscow Settings is a famouse short story of ukraіnian wrighter Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov's works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities.
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Moscow Settings
Moscow Settings is a famouse short story of ukraіnian wrighter Mikhail Bulgakov.
Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov’s works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities.
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– Please, welcome, dears, – said the host kindly and pointed to the table with a solemn, I dare say, regal gesture.
Without any need to be asked twice, we took our seats immediately and unfolded heavily starched napkins.
There were four of us. The host and his cousin were both former counselors-at-law, the host’s second cousin, who once used to bear a respected status of the state councilor’s widow and then served for some time in the Council of National Economy, was now known simply as Zinaida Ivanovna, and one more dear guest – it’s me naturally – a former … well, I suppose it is a completely and utterly irrelevant detail though… who at that moment was a man with so called indefinite pursuits.
The sunlight of the first April day dashed through the window and was sparkling in assiduously polished glasses.
– It’s spring, thank God! I’m feeling totally fed up to the back teeth with this winter, – said the host and delicately touched the neck of the decanter.
– Tell me about it! – I exclaimed, skillfully pulled a sprat out of the can, skinned it, spread the butter on the bread, covered it with the mauled trunk of the above mentioned sprat and, grinning affably at Zinaida Ivanovna, added, – To your good health!
Then we took a drop.
