Vocabulary:

boarding school – школа-интернат

commission – зд.: звание офицера

common people – обычные люди, народ

difference – разница, отличие

graduating [,drædju`eitiŋ] – выпуск, окончание учебного заведения

in order to – для того, чтобы

labour [`leibə] – труд, работа, чрезмерное усилие

literary journal [`d3ə:nəl] – литературный журнал

mild epilepsy [,maild `epilepsi] – лёгкая форма эпилепсии

military engineering [,end3iniəriŋ] school – военное инженерное училище

military station – военная база

mystical [`misticəl] creed – мистическое кредо, убеждение

novelist – писатель-романист

physician [fi`zi∫ən] – врач, медик; терапевт

psychological depth [,saikə`lod3ik(ə)l `depθ] – психологическая глубина

private – сущ.: рядовой

revolutionary [,revə`lu:∫nəri] ideas – революционные идеи

stenographer [sti`nogrəfə] – стенографист (стенографистка)

to be regarded as smth. – рассматриваться в качестве чего-л.

to resign – зд.: уходить в отставку, оставлять занимаемый пост, должность

to devote – посвящать

to be famous for smth. – быть знаменитым за что-л.

to be imprisoned for smth. – быть заключённым в тюрьму, лишённым свободы за что-л.

to sentence – зд.: выносить приговор, приговаривать, to be sentenced – быть приговорённым

to shoot – зд.: стрелять, расстреливать, to be shot – быть расстрелянным

to have sympathy [`simpəθi] for smb. / smth. – симпатизировать кому / чему-л.

to suffered from smth. – страдать от чего-л.

to grow worse – ухудшиться

to marry smb. – жениться на ком-л. (выйти замуж)

to publish – публиковать

to suppress – зд.: запрещать, изымать из продажи, be suppressed – быть запрещённым

to be separated from smb. – быть разлучённым с кем-л.

widow – вдова

Questions:

1. When and where was Dostoevsky born?

2. Where did he study?

3. What was Dostoevsky imprisoned for?

4. What was his life after four years in prison?

• Artists

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti was one of the most famous artists in history. He was a painter, a sculptor, an architect, and a poet. He created some of the world's most beautiful and most famous paintings and statues.

Michelangelo was born in 1475 in a small Italian town near Florence and died on February 18, 1564. At the age of 12, he was apprenticed to Domenico Ghirlandaio, a well-known Italian artist. He learned to draw by copying other artists' paintings. He soon became interested in sculpture too. At the age of 21, he went to Rome and began to create the works of art that made him famous all over the world.

Michelangelo's first great work was the Pieta for St Peter's Cathedral. This statue shows Jesus Christ in the arms of the Virgin Mary after his death on the cross.

Michelangelo then went to Florence, where he produced his famous statue of David. It is 18 feet high and carved from a solid piece of marble. The statue is so lifelike that it seems ready to move. We have a copy of this statue in the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum.

At the age of 30 Michelangelo was called to Rome and worked there for the next 30 years. In 1508 he began painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. He spent more than two years lying on his back on a scaffold, painting the figures and Biblical scenes on half of the ceiling. After a long rest, he completed the second half in about a year. People consider the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to be one of the world's greatest and most amazing works of art.