This manual contains 12 works by Pushkin ('The Shot,' 'The Station Inspector'), and also texts about places related to Pushkin in St. Petersburg. All texts are supplemented with exercises. At the end of the manual is a word list and supplement for the teacher. This manual is for foreign students at an intermediate or advanced level of of Russian, as well as teachers of Russian as foreign...

The textbook presents fragments of famous Russian literary pieces with the most dramatic and emotionally charged action. Each fragment is complemented with vocabulary, phraseology vocabulary, questions about the text and multiple tasks that stimulate analysis and critical reading of the text, vocabulary building and improving of speaking skills.

Today, no one doubts the reality of the existence of secret societies. But why do they exist? What goals do they pursue? What role do they play in the life of humanity? And by what signs can we judge their presence? The author of the book offers his original interpretation of the role of secret societies in history, considering them as a kind of ‘locomotives’, provocateurs of social change and...

English-Russian Dictionary on Optoelectronics and Laser Devices. Contains over 4500 terms with word combinations, abbreviations and word reductions.

Directory contains basic rules of spelling and punctuation. It also gives recommendations on editing.

The book represents a collection of memoirs about Lermontov from his family and friends. Many points of view help to recreate the personality of a great poet.

Full biography of Confucius with collection of his sayings at the end of the book.

This book presents readers with an 'epistolary' look at Ilia Ilf. This first unabridged edition contains letters to his wife and friends, which were written over a 15 year period (1921-1936). There are no letters to Evgenii Petrov, however, since the two were practically never parted. The envelopes have stamps from Odessa, Moscow, Leningrad, and also cities in Europe and the United States....

The book contains section about Lexicography, Lexicology, phraseology, phonetics, phonology, spelling, etc.

The book, nominated for the Booker Prize, literally exploded onto the domestic book market and acquired not just cult status, but legendary status! A novella in which the theme of growing up is turned upside down and takes on features of surreal humor! A book that hilariously and subtly parodies the very idea of ??a happy childhood. The sensitive and intelligent Sanaev understood everything...

Illustrated with multiple black and white photographs this book reveals the history fo Petrograd's criminalily in 1917-1922. Author provides much of evidence to suggest that the Red Terror came as a result of fighting criminality.

Reference dictionary consists of the three parts: the first provides historical background of the words that come into Russian from Latin, the second part contains Latin words and roots that exist in Russian, and the third part contains the list of Russian words and their reference in Latin literary pieces.