Moscow is not called the New Babylon for nothing. Many languages, human destinies and passions intersect in this amazing city. But sometimes the clash of traditional ways, cordiality, hospitality and the cruel laws of modern life leads to unexpected consequences... All the secrets and mysteries of the capital's life are revealed in their action-packed stories by recognized masters of the...

Illustrated Annotated Russian Reader. Reader includes funny short stories by Daniil Kharms. It is intended for basic-intermediate level (A2-B1) and focuses on the verbs of motion. The reader includes 13 short stories and two poems accompanied by numerous exercises on the use of verbs, prefixes, and word formation. Additionally, the reader includes marginal glosses, historical-cultural and...

Translated from the German. An eyewitness account from a German war correspondent.

The Argentinean tango…a dance of passion and sensuality? A dance of passion and danger! A dance, which led a young ballerina into the embrace of a mysterious man, and opened the door for her into the captivating, exotic world of Argentinean bohemia… But suddenly her loved one disappears without a trace, and she sets off on searches for him. Searches which become more and more dangerous….

A collection of short stories.

Pyotr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) is an amazing, but in some ways very typical figure in Russian history: a prince from an old family who became a revolutionary, a scholar and encyclopedist immersed in politics, an anarchist who sharply criticized violence and the ‘Red Terror’. He became famous as a geographer and explorer of the North, a historian and philosopher, a literary critic and...

Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration served as a Russian general. He was an ethnic Georgian and descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations. In 1812 Bagration commanded the 2nd army of the West, and though defeated at Mogilev, rejoined the main army under Barclay de Tolly, and led the left wing at the Battle of Borodino, where he received a mortal wound.

We were music in the ice…’ – this is how Pasternak described the fate of the generation that in the twenties had to ‘move from lyric poetry to epic poetry’. It was then that he created great works, thoroughly imbued with the revolutionary element: the poems ‘High Disease’, ‘The Year Nine Hundred and Fifth’, ‘Lieutenant Schmidt’. The time demanded an epic genre, and Pasternak accepted this...

This is a parallel-text edition of 'Bronka,' a short story by Ludmila Ulitskaya, one of contemporary Russia's most popular and internationally acclaimed authors. First published in 1989, the story depicts the childhood and youth of Bronka, the eponymous heroine, who lives with her mother in a drab communal apartment in a rundown Moscow neighborhood in the years following the Second World War....

‘Commentary’ includes both general articles that reveal the peculiarities of the noble life of Pushkin’s era, the internal chronology of the novel, the history of its creation, the problem of prototypes, and two types of explanations: textual ones (explaining the meaning of archaic words, lost realities and literary reminiscences) and conceptual ones (analyzing the structural features of the...

Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to...