Vladimir Mayakovsky's funny and naughty poems about the zoo, written by the great poet for the youngest readers, are classics of children's poetry, on which many generations of our compatriots grew up.

'Reading from 0 to 3 years' - a series to help caring parents with the best classical works, selected specifically for the age of the child. The composition of the series corresponds to the Federal State Educational Standard for preschool education. The world-famous teacher and wonderful writer Konstantin Ushinsky in his stories and fairy tales teaches children humanity, courage, generosity,...

The text of the manual has been adapted for educational purposes to the Pre-Intermediate level. Each chapter is accompanied by exercises for practicing and consolidating the skills of speech activity, an English-Russian dictionary, as well as a commentary. The book is intended for students in grades 7 - 8 of schools, gymnasiums, lyceums.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates...

Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of 30 years of Afghanistan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women...

Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian-half, his mom's side-and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters, and trying to explain his...

‘Count T. heads towards a mysterious area called ‘Optina Pustyn’. Bypassing all sorts of obstacles, he is steadily approaching the goal, however, seeing neither the meaning nor the reasons for his dangerous journey. However, soon he will have to doubt not only the illusory nature his mission, but also in his own reality, and at the same time in the reality of the entire surrounding world. Count...

By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two ‘unreliable’ narrators: the young man who is a student at the ‘school for fools’ and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for...

It is no coincidence that the memory of crimes in which not external forces, but your own state is to blame, is called the 'difficult past'. Recognizing one's own responsibility without shifting it to external or internal enemies, time and circumstances is incredibly difficult psychologically, politically and legally. Only at first glance it seems that there are many examples of such...

Revolutions do not happen unexpectedly, empires do not perish for no reason. The main lesson that we can learn from the revolution of 1917 is the understanding of why the emperor and his entourage, in a situation that required cardinal internal reforms, not only did not decide on these reforms, but, on the contrary, tried with all their might to reverse the development of the country,...