A reader designed especially for those who learn Russian and would like to expand their vocabulary and reinforce grammar through reading. This text is a classical Russian piece, written by Alexander Pushkin in 1833. This story is about a young officer, Hermann, who attempts to solve the mystery of the three cards. The old countess is the only one who knows the combination of the three cards...

A collection of poems, accompanied by exercises.

Reader with questions and exercises.

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),...

This is a great collection of short stories for learners of Russian. It is designed for intermediate/advanced level students and it introduces them to the famous and talented Russian authors, such as, Ivan Bunin, Nadezhda Teffi, Arkadii Averchenko, Vladimir Nabokov, Sergei Dovlatov, etc. Each text is provided with the words' stresses and translation of the difficult/colloquial words into...

The book contains stories for the children of the modern writer Elena Boroda. These are funny and kind stories about the brothers Dima and Roma, about their parents and friends. They travel together, climb to the top of the mountain, send signals to aliens. The text of the stories is adapted (A2), accompanied by commentary, tasks for reading comprehension and speech development.

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...

Reader for B2 level. This book consists of 14 lessons. All texts are provided with the necessary comments and footnotes. New words and phrases are introduced as footnotes and translated into English. In this case, only the contextual meaning of the word or phrase is given. A variety of grammar and vocabulary exercises make reading much easier and help students learn new material.