A classic Russian ABC book.

Эти парень и девушка знакомы с детства и еще могут полюбить друг друга, но им придется стать врагами. По жребию они должны участвовать в страшных Голодных играх, где побеждает только один - таков закон, который не нарушался еще никогда… Китнисс и Пит выжили - заставили признать победителями их обоих. Но многие из тех, кому не нравится победа, считают парня и девушку опасными. У этих людей...

В сборнике представлены знаменитая сатирическая повесть Подпоручик Киже и роман Смерть Вазир-Мухтара, повествующий о трагической судьбе одного из самых удивительных и талантливых людей России Александра Грибоедова.

Full title: 'Boris Rabbot: An Unheeded Voice of the 1960s'. The volume includes most significant works written between 1960 and 2011 by a Russian emigre political scientist, sociologist, journalist and writer who was part of the liberal movement reform that preceded Gorbachev's perestroika, a group frequently ignored by historians. The volume includes excerpts from Rabbot's published and...

Russian as a foreign language course (Elementary) is designed for Business Russian learners worldwide. Russian for Business is aimed at entrepreneurs and managers working or planning to do business with Russia, and interested in improving their communication skills in the Russian language. The course consists of 12 units, and includes a course-book (with keys), a workbook with exercises (with...

This is a collection of essays about the relationship of the writer with the culture aborad. Zinik writes about Russian literature from the times of iron curtain and to the present days.

The themes that unite these diverse texts are the clash of cultures, the conflict between one's own and another's, and art through the eyes of a cultural scholar. The author's ability to write humorously about the serious and seriously about the humorous is evident in both the autobiographical and, relatively speaking, historical and cultural sections of the collection, making each text a...

The reader includes short anekdotes, jokes, and funny stories. For the I level.

It is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Erofeev. Written between 1969 and 1970 this book was passed around in samizdat for a long time. The story follows an alcoholic intellectual, Venya (or Venichka), as he travels by a suburban train on a 125 km (78 mi) journey from Moscow to visit his beautiful beloved and child in Petushki, a city...

This volume includes essays and prose about the key moments in Russian history in XIX-XXI century. The author remids us that history is just people, and there is no history without the people's deeds.