Tests on Russian Language skills. I level. Includes separate tests for Lexicon, Grammar, Audio Comprehension, Reading, Writing, Speaking. (+Answer Keys and Methodical Recommendations for Teachers).

Tests for elementary, basic, and intermediate levels (A1, A2, B2).

The history of domestic radio control systems for long-range missiles is presented, starting with the lateral radio correlation system for the first domestic missile R-1 and ending with radio control systems for the first intercontinental missiles.

The adapted text of the great novel classics of XIX century. The reader contains comments, test tasks, the dictionary, illustrations (photos from the recent movie series based on the novel).

The manual on stylistics for learners of Russian gives an introduction into basic concepts of stylistics, such as various functional styles and a dialogue. Manual includes exercises, questions for self-check, and tests. Topics include: Book and colloquial styles of speech, Official and informal situations of dialogue, Oral and written speech (dialogue, tactics of dialogue, the letter, dialogue...

The first of its kind book, offers Russian speakers a detailed introduction to their new country. The book acts as a guide to practical life in the United States for new immigrants, exchange students or those working in the USA. Each chapter addresses a specific concern or element of daily life: driving rules and regulations, how to open a bank account, how and where to shop and how to invite...

A reader designed for Russian speakers learning English. Each chapter is followed by a glossary and exercises. Reader is designed for students at the pre-intermediate level.

The author of many books, a famous collector of legends and myths about St. Petersburg, Naum Aleksandrovich Sindalovsky, presents a unique collection of St. Petersburg folklore, which, like a magic mirror, reflected 300 years of the reign of the Romanov dynasty. It began with the curse of Marina Mniszech. But this long journey was not only marked by tragedies; many sparkling witticisms, funny...

Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman’s soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the...

The author examines the late period of Brezhnev era rule in the USSR, known often as the period of stagnation.