Annotated Russian Reader for Intermediate (B1-B2) Level students that focuses on the verbs of motion. The reader provides ample support for the learner, including marginal glosses, historical-cultural, and grammatical commentaries, as well as a range of exercises on translation, word- formation, vocabulary building, and participles. The story follows the narrator dealing with an old woman who...

The book presents an abridged version of the novel ‘Anna Karenina’ by the great Russian writer of the 19th century L.N. Tolstoy. This is a classic love triangle. The passionate love that the heroine experiences for a brilliant officer ends in tragedy for her. The feeling of guilt before her family, the conventions of high society push her to suicide. The text of the novel is adapted (B1),...

The novel 'Doctor Zhivago' is one of the outstanding readings of Russian literature, which for many years remained closed to a wide circle of circles in the country who know about it only from scandalous and unscrupulous party criticism. The insecurity and immortality of a creative person, an intellectual and the turning points in the life of our people are the central theme of the final book...