Level B1. This book is intended for students who speak Russian at the first certification level. Post-text educational material is presented in the headings: Control - questions on the understanding of general factology; Motivation - issues that establish the causal relationships of reactions, actions and actions of characters; Discussion - issues that contribute to a more serious understanding...

The book tells a story of the famous Russian family of Riabushinsky, their struggle with the government in 1917 and subsequent emigration to Paris.

At the helm of the Russian government : Essay on the formation of government in the 14th-15th cent. The authors study the formation of the Russian state at the end of 15th-beginning 16th centuries as a process of creating administrative bodies: the offices of the Moscow Dukes and later of the Russian sovereign. The first Russian administrative officials were boyars, voivodes, and d`iaks...

The book includes the memoirs of Mikhail Dmitriev (1796-1866), Russian poet and writer.

The wild success that fell upon Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov after the publication of The Twelve Chairs (1928) prompted the co-authors to resurrect their hero, the cheerful and charming swindler Ostap Bender, and set about writing The Golden Calf (1931). This time, the great schemer is developing an operation to take money from the underground millionaire Koreiko. Sparkling humor, unexpected...