The course is designed for beginners who learn Russian language at the elementary level. It is designed for 80 - 100 hours of classroom study under the guidance of a teacher and can also be used for self-study.

Reader for students includes a short story 'Sunstroke.' In a filtration camp, a captain is being haunted by his past tragic romantic memories while the white officers under him are planning their defense attack against the red army.

Volume 2. Textbook comes with a DVD. The course as a whole is structured on a thematic basis and includes 12 topics. Each topic is designed for all types of speech activity, which ensures a coordinated presentation of material in aspect teaching: a unified approach to the study of typical texts, their structure, lexical and grammatical content, the use of these texts as samples when...

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....

Collection of folk tales beautifully illustrated.