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What is the name of the main character in Pushkin's novel The Queen of Spades?

The name of the protagonist of Pushkin's story "The Queen of Spades" is not German. His name is generally unknown, and Hermann (precisely with two n) is the surname of the hero, a German by origin, which is quite common in Germany. But in the opera The Queen of Spades, the author of the libretto, Modest Tchaikovsky, the younger brother of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, removed one n, turning the surname Hermann into the name Herman.

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What are mushrooms?

Mushrooms bring great benefits to humans, performing two mutually exclusive functions: they perform a huge amount of useful and destructive work.

By decomposing waste, mushrooms help a person by preventing their uncontrolled accumulation. They also return mineral salts needed by plants to the soil. Some mushrooms produce medicinal substances that help a person fight diseases.

Other fungi cause diseases of plants and animals, which forces a person to wage a constant struggle with them.

What are mushrooms? These are simple, dependent plants. We call them "simple" because they do not have roots, stems and leaves compared to complex plants. They are dependent as they do not have chlorophyll, which means they cannot produce sugar from carbon dioxide and water like other green plants. Therefore, they depend on the availability of nutrients produced by green plants.

There are many types of mushrooms, and they vary considerably in their structure. Some are single cells. For example, bacteria and yeast are single-celled fungi. Bacteria reach an average length of 0,005 mm.

Mucous mold is another type of fungus. It differs from other plants in that it consists of a large volume of naked protoplasm, which is similar to a gelatinous film on the surface of rotting wood or other wet object.

All types of fungi, with the exception of these three (bacteria, yeasts and mucosal molds), are composed of a huge amount of colorless fibers.

They are called "mycelium", or mycelium. The processes of the mycelium penetrate into the material on which it develops, and thus extract nutrients. Mushrooms require water for their development and digestion of food, so they cannot grow in a dry climate.

Mushrooms include a large class of molds that infect both bread and damp cloth. Some types of mold are used in cheese making to give cheese a certain flavor, as well as in the manufacture of medicines.

Edible and poisonous mushrooms also belong to this family. The main part of these fungi, consisting of mycelium, spreads underground. The fungus itself is just the spore-producing part of the mycelium, which is fully formed before appearing on the surface.

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