The author proposes an original system of exercises in lexical style for the Russian as a foreign language course. The book presents the most relevant topics for foreigners: the composition of the word, antonyms, synonyms, borrowings, stylistic layers of vocabulary, word compatibility, etc. Exercises are given on the principle of increasing complexity, which makes the manual indispensable in...

About love that is stronger than death. About that light and this darkness. Mysteries of consciousness and their clues. Fundamentals vampoekonomiki. Gynecology of protest. The firm guarantees: Not a word about the swamp! For the first time in the world l

The book was based on materials from the family archive - memoirs, diaries, letters, photographs, as well as documents from the archives of the NKVD-KGB-FSB, which the authors managed to get acquainted only in 1998-2000. As a result, a story about many and many people connected with family, professional and friendly ties turned out. And broader is the story of the twentieth century, how it...

The Cherry Orchard was first produced by the Moscow Art Theatre on Chekhov's last birthday, January 17, 1904. Since that time it has become one of the most critically admired and performed plays in the Western world, a high comedy whose principal theme, the passing of the old semifeudal order, is symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevsky.

A charming rhyming story about a little girl named Annie who has curly hair and wants nothing more than for it to be straight. One morning, Annie refuses to go to school because her classmates have been teasing her for not having hair like theirs. After sending her mother on quite the wild goose chase, we follow Annie on an adventure to a hair salon, where she quickly learns just how lucky...

Adapted text of a short story for level B1.

Революции не происходят неожиданно, империи не гибнут ни с того ни с сего. Главный урок, который мы можем вынести из революции 1917 года, — понимание того, почему император и его окружение в обстановке, которая требовала кардинальных внутренних реформ, не только на эти реформы не решились, но, наоборот, всеми силами пытались повернуть развитие страны вспять, усиливая опору на «традиционные...

The story chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world. Slipping into nihilism with the ôterrible anguishö he is determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man