Task 1. Read the text and put the phrases in the right place. A it had not been included
B pulled against his chains
C she had to go and empty it
D he was not a giant either
E stay there until the end of the world
F sometimes they were also mean

Loki’s Fate
The ancient Norse people believed that the world was controlled by two tribes: a tribe of gods and a tribe of giants. Loki was not a god and . He was something in between.
Loki was a trickster. He liked to play tricks on people and start quarrels. His jokes were often funny but . One day Loki decided to play a trick on Baldur, a popular god who everybody loved. Baldur was protected by a magic spell; no living thing could hurt him, except for the mistletoe plant, which was so small and harmless that . Loki made an arrow out of this plant and told a blind god to throw it at Baldur as a joke. As a result, Baldur died.
Everyone was very sad about the death of Baldur and the gods decided to punish Loki. They chained him to three giant rocks, deep in a cave and hung a huge snake above him so that it would drip poison onto his face. Loki would have to .
His wife decided to help him. She sat beside him and caught the poison in a bowl as it fell from the mouth of the snake. When the bowl became full, however, . While she was gone, the poison fell onto Loki’s face. When the poison touched him, he writhed in pain and . Every time this happened, Loki struggled so much that it made the earth tremble and shake violently.

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin is a famous Russian artist (landscape painter, painter, engraver) and academician.
Ivan was born in the city of Yelabuga in 1832 in a merchant family. The artist received his first education in the Kazan Gymnasium. After studying there for four years, Shishkin entered a Moscow school of painting.
After graduating from this school in 1856, he continued his education at the Academy of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg. Within the walls of this institution Shishkin received knowledge until 1865. In addition to the academic drawing, the artist also honed his skills outside the Academy, in various picturesque places of the suburbs of St. Petersburg. Now the paintings of Ivan Shishkin are valued as high as ever.

In 1860, Shishkin received an important award - the Academy's gold medal. The artist goes to Munich. Then - in Zurich. Everywhere he works in the workshops of the most famous artists of the time. For the painting "View in the vicinity of Dusseldorf" he soon received the title of academician.
In 1866, Ivan Shishkin returned to St. Petersburg. Shishkin, traveling in Russia, then presented his paintings at various exhibitions. He painted a lot of pictures of a pine forest, among the most famous are "Creek in the Forest", "Morning in the Pine Forest", "Pine Forest", "Fog in the Pine Forest", "Nature Reserve. Pinery". Also, the artist showed his paintings in the Association of traveling exhibitions. Shishkin was a member of a circle of aquafortists. In 1873, the artist received the title of professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, and after some time was the head of the training workshop.

THE CREATIVITY OF IVAN IVANOVICH SHISHKIN
Early Creativity
For the early works of the master ("View on the Island of Valaam", 1858, the Kiev Museum of Russian Art, "Felling Forest", 1867, the Tretyakov Gallery) is characterized by some fractional forms; Adhering to the traditional "romanticism" of the "backstage" construction of the picture, clearly marking out the plans, he does not yet achieve a convincing unity of the image.

In such films as "Noon. In the vicinity of Moscow "(1869, ibid.), This unity appears already an obvious reality, primarily due to the subtle compositional and light-air-color coordination of the zones of sky and earth, the soil (the latter Shishkin felt particularly penetrating, in this respect not having himself Equal in the Russian landscape art).

Maturity
In the 1870s. Ivan Shishkin was at the time of unconditional creative maturity, which is evidenced by the paintings "Pine Forest. Mastwood in the Vyatka province "(1872) and" Rye "(1878, both - the Tretyakov Gallery).

Usually avoiding unsteady, transitional states of nature, the artist Ivan Shishkin fixes its highest summer flowering, achieving an impressive tonal unity precisely at the expense of bright, midday, summer light, which determines the entire color scale. Monumental-romantic image of Nature with a capital letter is invariably present in the pictures. New, realistic trends, appear in that penetrating attention with which signs of a specific piece of land, a corner of a forest or field, a particular tree, are written out.

Ivan Shishkin is a wonderful poet not only of soil, but also of wood, which subtly senses the character of each breed [in his most typical records, he usually mentions not just a "forest" but a forest of "sedge, elms and some oaks" (diary of 1861) or "Spruce, pine, aspen, birch, lime tree" (from a letter to IV Volkovsky, 1888)].

With special enthusiasm the artist writes breeds the most powerful and strong type of oaks and pines - in the stage of maturity, old age and, finally, death in the windbreak. Classical works of Ivan Ivanovich - such as "Rye" or "Among the valley of the flat ..." (the painting is named after the song by AF Merzlyakov, 1883, the Kiev Museum of Russian Art), "Lesnye dali" (1884, Tretyakov Gallery) - are perceived as Generalized, epic images of Russia.

Artist Ivan Shishkin equally work out both kinds of views, and forest "interiors" ("Pine trees illuminated by the sun", 1886, "Morning in the Pine Forest" where bears were written by KA Savitsky, 1889, both in the same place). His drawings and sketches, which are a detailed diary of natural life, have independent value.

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin is a famous Russian artist (landscape painter, painter, engraver) and academician.Ivan was born in the city of Yelabuga in 1832 in a merchant family. The artist received his first education in the Kazan Gymnasium. After studying there for four years, Shishkin entered a Moscow school of painting.After graduating from this school in 1856, he continued his education at the Academy of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg. Within the walls of this institution Shishkin received knowledge until 1865. In addition to the academic drawing, the artist also honed his skills outside the Academy, in various picturesque places of the suburbs of St. Petersburg. Now the paintings of Ivan Shishkin are valued as high as ever.
In 1860, Shishkin received an important award - the Academy's gold medal. The artist goes to Munich. Then - in Zurich. Everywhere he works in the workshops of the most famous artists of the time. For the painting "View in the vicinity of Dusseldorf" he soon received the title of academician.In 1866, Ivan Shishkin returned to St. Petersburg. Shishkin, traveling in Russia, then presented his paintings at various exhibitions. He painted a lot of pictures of a pine forest, among the most famous are "Creek in the Forest", "Morning in the Pine Forest", "Pine Forest", "Fog in the Pine Forest", "Nature Reserve. Pinery". Also, the artist showed his paintings in the Association of traveling exhibitions. Shishkin was a member of a circle of aquafortists. In 1873, the artist received the title of professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, and after some time was the head of the training workshop.THE CREATIVITY OF IVAN IVANOVICH SHISHKINEarly CreativityFor the early works of the master ("View on the Island of Valaam", 1858, the Kiev Museum of Russian Art, "Felling Forest", 1867, the Tretyakov Gallery) is characterized by some fractional forms; Adhering to the traditional "romanticism" of the "backstage" construction of the picture, clearly marking out the plans, he does not yet achieve a convincing unity of the image.
In such films as "Noon. In the vicinity of Moscow "(1869, ibid.), This unity appears already an obvious reality, primarily due to the subtle compositional and light-air-color coordination of the zones of sky and earth, the soil (the latter Shishkin felt particularly penetrating, in this respect not having himself Equal in the Russian landscape art).MaturityIn the 1870s. Ivan Shishkin was at the time of unconditional creative maturity, which is evidenced by the paintings "Pine Forest. Mastwood in the Vyatka province "(1872) and" Rye "(1878, both - the Tretyakov Gallery).
Usually avoiding unsteady, transitional states of nature, the artist Ivan Shishkin fixes its highest summer flowering, achieving an impressive tonal unity precisely at the expense of bright, midday, summer light, which determines the entire color scale. Monumental-romantic image of Nature with a capital letter is invariably present in the pictures. New, realistic trends, appear in that penetrating attention with which signs of a specific piece of land, a corner of a forest or field, a particular tree, are written out.
Ivan Shishkin is a wonderful poet not only of soil, but also of wood, which subtly senses the character of each breed [in his most typical records, he usually mentions not just a "forest" but a forest of "sedge, elms and some oaks" (diary of 1861) or "Spruce, pine, aspen, birch, lime tree" (from a letter to IV Volkovsky, 1888)].

With special enthusiasm the artist writes breeds the most powerful and strong type of oaks and pines - in the stage of maturity, old age and, finally, death in the windbreak. Classical works of Ivan Ivanovich - such as "Rye" or "Among the valley of the flat ..." (the painting is named after the song by AF Merzlyakov, 1883, the Kiev Museum of Russian Art), "Lesnye dali" (1884, Tretyakov Gallery) - are perceived as Generalized, epic images of Russia.
Artist Ivan Shishkin equally work out both kinds of views, and forest "interiors" ("Pine trees illuminated by the sun", 1886, "Morning in the Pine Forest" where bears were written by KA Savitsky, 1889, both in the same place). His drawings and sketches, which are a detailed diary of natural life, have independent value.