After the ball. Albert. Marker notes (CDMP3)

Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich - Russian writer, classic of Russian and world literature.
After the ball " - a story about how one episode from a person’s life is able to completely change his fate and intentions and even destroy love.
The story "Albert" - about a man in art. Is it possible for a simple layman to understand the spinning violinist who laid his violin? "Art is the highest manifestation of power in man. It is given to rare chosen ones and raises the chosen one to such a height at which the head is spinning and difficult to resist for health. In art, as in any struggle, there are heroes who surrendered to everything to their service and died, without reaching the goal.
In the "Notes of Marker", the narrative is conducted on behalf of the employee of the gambling establishment, who, celebrating the score of the game on the billiards, and sometimes composing the company to the players, can know about the gentlemen very much and even tell something ... tell, but not understand