The Island of Crimea was written by Vasily Aksenov in 1977-1979 and was first published in the USA in 1981, after the author left the USSR. A brilliant utopia and at the same time a dystopia, a political satire, a detective story - all this is 'Crimea Island'. The plot of the novel is based on two assumptions: what if Crimea were a full-fledged island and what if during the Civil War it went to...

The cultural dialogue between Russia and America has been going on for centuries, despite all the historical obstacles. Writers and philosophers from both countries closely followed each other's political, social, and artistic experiments.

The adapted text of the popular mystery novel. The text supplies with the stress, questions and tasks, including testes, keys, English-Russian dictionary, illustrations.

The story based on Belyaev's novel 'Professor Dowell's Head.' The reader is illustrated with photos from the popular film.

The adapted text of the classic story. The text supplies with the stress, questions and tasks, including testes, keys, illustrations.

The adapted text of the great novel classics of XIX century. The reader contains comments, test tasks, the dictionary, illustrations (photos from the recent movie series based on the novel).

The reader for B2 level includes excerpts from the memoirs of Mark Chagall, diaries of Olga Knipper-Chekhov, short story by A.Chekhov, letters of A.Pushkin, short story by A.Pushkin, short story by Isaak Babel. Includes exercises and keys.

25 short stories by different authors with exercises, commentaries, and quesitons.

The book is for those who know Russian very little yet, but would very much love to start reading something basic in terms of the language, not the essence. Short and interesting texts, Russian-English glossary for each text, exercises for classroom and independent work. For English speaking students. Published in four volumes.