My father and I have the same names: he is Sergei and I am Sergei.

If not for this, probably everything I want to talk about would not have happened. And I wouldn’t rush to the airport now to check in a ticket for a scheduled plane. And I wouldn’t give up the trip I’ve been dreaming about all winter...

It started three and a half years ago, when I was still a boy and in the sixth grade.

“Your behavior upsets all the laws of heredity,” the zoology teacher, our class teacher, often told me. “It’s simply impossible to imagine that you are the son of your parents!” In addition, he placed the actions of his students in direct dependence on the family conditions in which we lived and grew up. Some were from dysfunctional families, others from prosperous ones. But I was the only one from an exemplary family! The zoologist said this:

“You are a boy from an exemplary family! How can you give hints in class?”

Maybe it was zoology that taught him to always remember who belongs to which family?

I suggested it to my friend Anton. The guys called him Anton-Baton because he was plump, rich, and rosy-cheeked. When he was embarrassed, his entire large spherical head turned pink and it even seemed as if the roots of his whitish hair were illuminated pink from somewhere inside.

Anton was monstrously neat and conscientious, but when he came out to answer, he died from embarrassment. Besides, he stuttered.

The guys dreamed that Anton would be called to the board more often: at least half a lesson was spent on him. I fidgeted, moved my lips, did conventional signs, trying to remind my friend what he knew much better than me. This irritated the teachers, and they eventually sat us both on the “emergency” desk, which was the first one in the middle row - in front of the teacher’s desk.

Only those students who, according to the zoologist, “excited the team” were seated on this desk.

Our class teacher did not rack his brains over the reason for Antonov’s failures. Here everything was clear to him: Anton came from dysfunctional family– his parents divorced a long time ago, and he had never seen his father in his life. Our zoologist was firmly convinced that if Anton’s parents had not divorced, my school friend would not have been needlessly embarrassed, would not have struggled at the blackboard and, perhaps, would not even stutter.

It was much more difficult with me: I violated the laws of heredity. My parents visited everything parent meetings, and I wrote with spelling errors. They always signed their diary on time, and I ran away from my last lessons.

They ran a sports club at school, and I suggested it to my friend Anton.

In our school, all the fathers and mothers were almost never called by their first and patronymic names, but were said like this: “Barabanov’s parents”, “Sidorova’s parents”... My father and mother were evaluated as if on their own, regardless of my actions and deeds , which could sometimes cast a shadow on their reputation as social activists, senior comrades and, as our zoologist said, “true friends of the school community.”

This was the case not only at school, but also in our home. " A happy family!” - they talked about my father and mother, without blaming them for the fact that the day before I tried to get into the window of the third floor with a stream from a fire hose. Although other parents would not be forgiven for this. “An exemplary family!..” - the neighbors, especially often women, said with a sigh and constant reproach to someone, seeing how mother and father jogged around the yard in the morning in any weather, how they were always together, arm in arm, going to the work and return home together.

They say that people who live together for a long time become similar to each other. My parents were similar.

This was especially noticeable in the color photograph that hung above our sofa. Father and mother, both tanned, white-toothed, both in cornflower blue tracksuits, gazed forward, probably at the person who was photographing them. You would have thought that they were filmed by Charlie Chaplin - they laughed so uncontrollably. Sometimes it even seemed to me that this was a sounding photograph, that I was hearing their cheerful voices. But Charlie Chaplin had nothing to do with it - my parents were just very conscientious people: if Sunday was announced, they were the very first to come into the yard and the very last to leave; if they started a song at a demonstration on the day of the holiday, they did not silently move their lips, as some do, but loudly and clearly sang the entire song from the first to the last verse; Well, if the photographer asked them to smile, just to smile, they laughed as if they were watching a comedy movie.

Yes, they did everything in life as if they were overfulfilling.

And this didn’t annoy anyone, because everything worked out naturally for them, as if it couldn’t have been otherwise.

I felt the most happy man in the world!

It seemed to me that I had the right to misdeeds and mistakes, because my father and mother did as much right and conscientiousness as could be planned for five or even as many as ten families. My soul was light and carefree... And no matter what troubles happened, I quickly calmed down - any trouble seemed nonsense in comparison with the main thing: I have the best parents in the world! Or at least the best in our house and in our school!..

They can never separate, as happened with Anton’s parents... It’s not for nothing that even strangers don’t imagine them separately, but only side by side, together, and call them by their common name - the Emelyanovs: “The Emelyanovs think so! The Emelyanovs say so! The Emelyanovs went on a business trip..."

Mom and father went on business trips very often: together they designed factories that were built somewhere very far from our city, in places called “mailboxes.”

I stayed with my grandmother.

My parents looked alike, and I looked like my grandmother—my mother’s mother. And not only externally.

Of course, my grandmother was happy for her daughter, she was proud of her husband, that is, my father, but, like me, she continually overturned the laws of heredity.

Mom and dad tried to harden us, to rid us of colds and infections forever (they themselves never even had the flu), but my grandmother and I resisted. We didn’t want to wipe ourselves down with icy water or get up even earlier on Sundays than on weekdays to go skiing or go hiking.

My parents continually accused both of us of being unclear: we didn’t breathe clearly during gymnastics, we didn’t clearly communicate who called mom and dad on the phone and what the latest news was broadcast, we didn’t clearly follow the daily routine.

Having seen off my mother and father on their next business trip, my grandmother and I immediately, like conspirators, gathered for an emergency council. Short, thin, with short-cropped hair, the grandmother resembled a cunning, mischievous boy. And this boy, as they said, looked a lot like me.

- Well, how much money do we save for the cinema? - asked the grandmother.

- More! - I said.

And grandma saved more because she loved going to the movies as much as I did. We immediately made another important decision: not to cook lunches and dinners, but to go to the dining room, which was in our house, on the first floor. I really enjoyed having lunch and dinner in the dining room. There my grandmother and I also quite found mutual language.

- Well, are we not taking the first and second? - Grandma sometimes said.

In the dining room we often did without soup and even without a second one, but we invariably took herring and two servings of jelly in metal molds. It was delicious for us, and we saved money on the cinema!..

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The letter was written by a lonely woman who saved the boy’s father in the war; she asked him for help, since there was no one else to turn to. Her adopted son leaves home because he found his biological parents and went to live with them. Since Serezha’s parents were on a long business trip, he continued to communicate by correspondence with the woman. With his kind heart, he tried to console her and cheer her up. After a long correspondence, Seryozha went to visit a stranger. He learns that Nina Georgievna was his father's first wife, but he left her and went to his mother. The woman says that her son wants to leave home, she was afraid of being left alone and not needed by anyone. Seryozha became friends with Nina Georgievna and replaced all the men who betrayed this woman.

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Writer and playwright Anatoly Georgievich Aleksin ( real name- Goberman) was born on August 3, 1924 in Moscow. His father, Georgy Platonovich Goberman, a party worker, former member Civil War, was repressed in 1937. Even before the war, in school years began publishing in the magazine "Pioneer" and the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda", where his early poems.

During the Great Patriotic War, during the evacuation he worked at a construction site and was the editor of a small-circulation factory newspaper. Aleksin's first prose works - essays, stories and journalism - began to appear in print in the mid-forties. After the war, he entered the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, from which he graduated in 1950. In the same year, the first collection of his stories, Thirty-One Days, was published.

Contents of the audiobook “Mad Evdokia and other works”:

- “Third in the fifth row”
— “Mad Evdokia”
- “Meanwhile, somewhere...”
— “The Tale of Alik Detkin”
— “Characters and performers”
- “My brother plays the clarinet”
- "Late Child"
- “The day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow”
- “Call and come!..”
- "Property division"
- “In the rear as in the rear...”
- "Heart failure"
— “In the Land of Eternal Vacations”
— “Sasha and Shura”
- stories.

Playing time: 12:55:00
Publisher: Can't buy it anywhere
Audiobook by Anatoly Aleksin “Anatoly Aleksin. Mad Evdokia and other works" performed by: Svetlana Repina

18
Apr
2011

Mad Evdokia (Anatoly Aleksin)

Format: audiobook, MP3, 128 kbps, 44 kHz
Anatoly Aleksin
Year of manufacture: 2011
Genre: Children's literature
Publisher: Can't buy it anywhere
Performer: Svetlana Repina
Duration: 12:55:00

Description: Writer and playwright Anatoly Georgievich Aleksin (real name Goberman) was born on August 3, 1924 in Moscow. His father, Georgy Platonovich Goberman, a party worker, a former participant in the Civil War, was repressed in 1937. Even before the war, during his school years he began to publish in the magazine "Pioneer" and the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda", where his early poems were published. During the Great Patriotic War, during the evacuation he worked at a construction site and was the editor of a factory small-circulation newspaper. Aleksin's first prose works - essays, stories and journalism - began to appear in print in the mid-forties. After the war, he entered the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, from which he graduated in 1950. In the same year, the first collection of his stories, Thirty-One Days, was published.

Aleksin’s numerous stories, such as “The Unusual Adventures of Seva Kotlov” (1958), “The Seventh Floor Speaks” (1959), “Kolya Writes to Olya, Olya Writes to Kolya” (1965), “Late Child” (1968), “My Brother Is Playing” on the clarinet" (1968), "Very scary tale" (1969), "Call and come!" (1970), "In the Land of Eternal Vacations" (1970), "Return Address" (1971), "Tenth-Graders" (1974), "Third in the Fifth Row" (1975), “Crazy Evdokia” (1976), “Let's Go to the Movies” (1977), “Heart Failure” (1979), addressed primarily to teenagers, brought him fame as one of the best authors of literature for youth. Permeated with youthful romance, sometimes a little sentimental. but at the same time always reliable due to recognizable situations and realistic characters, these works earned Aleksin the love of young readers and recognition of professional critics.

Content :

- "Third in the fifth row"

- “Meanwhile, somewhere...”
- "The Tale of Alik Detkin"
- "Characters and performers"
- "My brother plays the clarinet"
- "Late Child"
- "The day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow"
- "Call and come!.."
- "Property division"
- "In the rear as in the rear..."
- "Heart failure"
- "In the Land of Eternal Vacations"
- "Sasha and Shura"
- stories.

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Author: Vera Panova
Year of manufacture: 1980
Genre: Drama
Publisher: Gosteleradiofond
Performer: Victor Khokhryakov, Nina Gulyaeva, Afanasy Kochetkov, Mikhail Pogorzhelsky, Alexander Lenkov, Svetlana Bondareva, Svetlana Radchenko, Tatyana Kupriyanova
Duration: 02:41:15
Description: In a small provincial town A worker named Evdokim and his wife Evdokia live. They do not have their own children, they are raising adopted ones. Their life may seem simple and ordinary at first glance - but in fact it is full of strong passions, bright and important events, outpost...

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Mad Star (Terry Pratchett)

Format: audiobook, MP3, 128kbps
Author: Terry Pratchett
Year of release: 2017
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: ID SOYUZ
Performer: Alexander Klyukvin
Duration: 08:02:17
Description: After falling beyond the Land's End, Rincewind and Twoflower find themselves back on the firmament of the Disc, in a magical forest of talking trees, where they meet leprechauns. But they cannot rest and relax. A Crimson Star is approaching the Planet, capable of completely consuming the Disk. Only a mysterious spell can save a small piece of the universe, but it is in Rincewind's head and now he himself is in danger. Too...

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Format: audiobook, MP3, 128/160kbps, Joint Stereo
Author: Terry Pratchett
Year of manufacture: 2008
Genre: fantasy
Publisher: SiDiKom
Performer: Diomid Vinogradov
Duration: 09:10:30//09:02:30
Description: “The Color of Magic” is the first novel from which the grandiose bestselling series “Discworld” began, which now numbers more than 20 books. In Ankh-Morpork, largest city flat world, the first tourist appeared. There would have been nothing special about this event, but the ruler of the city ordered Rincewind, the most cowardly and mediocre wizard on the disk, to accompany him.
So, meet Rincewind - sa...

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Format: audiobook, MP3, 96kbps
Author: Stephen Butler Leacock
Year of manufacture: 2011
Genre: humor
Publisher: AST Astrel
Performer: Pyotr Isaykin
Duration: 10:18:44
Description: Fascinating humorous stories - and brilliant parodies of low-grade detective stories, stereotyped romance novels and primitive adventure literature. Ironic articles, poisonous critical essays - and satirical short stories. Literary jokes - and funny stories from the life of inhabitants of provincial towns or representatives of the capital's bohemians. This is Stephen Leacock - brilliant and extraordinarily witty! Contents 00...