The most famous ABC Book edition that is widely adopted in elementary schools and used by parents to introduce children to the Russian alphabet.

The manual gives a thorough introduction to the basic writing and speaking styles. For advanced students of Russian (C1).

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.

The story is told by a narrator (a lightly fictionalized version of Pushkin's public image), whose tone is educated, worldly, and intimate. The narrator digresses at times, usually to expand on aspects of this social and intellectual world. This allows for a development of the characters and emphasises the drama of the plot despite its relative simplicity. The book is admired for the artfulness...

Psychological and hermeneutic analysis of Vysotsky's texts, letters, and his personality.

This educational manual presents 20 biographical texts about well-known and talented people who were born in Russia, but for one reason or another lived outside of Russia. These are people who have achieved the highest results in their professional fields and captivated those around them in the fields of science, art, and sport. The manual is intended for learners at various levels of Russian....

This manual is intended for foreign students at an intermediate-advanced level who have a vocabulary of at least 10,000 words, and who are able to write texts in different styles and genres. The manual's goal is to develop foreign students' speech abilities through close study of stylistic and structural peculiarities of the educational essay in two versions: descriptive and persuasive essays....

This manual is intended for foreign students learning Russian, especially those in the humanities such as linguists and literary critics. It can be used for work with school-age students, undergraduates, graduate students, and people in training who are planning to go to Russia. This manual is intended to serve as a corrective course in phonetics and intonation at an advanced level. The themes...

This reader contains works from modern Russian authors, all of which are very significant in the context of modern Russian literature. All of the texts are accompanied with lexical, stylistic, grammatical and literary commentaries, which give necessary information for activating the memory. Each story has dictionary definitions for difficult words, with example sentences for the most...

For the first time, this book presents a practical method for teaching Russian to foreign students. It is intended to help form multicultural competence, that is, the ability to interact with representatives of a different culture and the ability to switch to another language or non-verbal norms of conduct. Based on the belief that language is an organizing part of culture, the method presented...