The three short stories in this reader provide a window into the Soviet childhood experience in the years 1945-49, when the country was just beginning to recover from the devastation and hardships caused by the Second World War. The stories are semi-autobiographical, based on Ulitskaya's childhood memories, and each portrays child protagonists facing challenging situations in everyday life....

The manual is intended to introduce foreign students to one of the most beautiful cities in Europe and the world - St. Petersburg, which is rightly called the cultural capital of Russia. It contains texts dedicated to the most important cultural and historical events in the life of the city. A clear and precise system of pretext, pretext and post-textual exercises already at the early stage of...

Format: 30 x 30 cm, 11.81 x 11.81 inches

This publication is suitable for anyone who wants to learn the Belarusian language. In the manual, you will find the main grammar topics, useful vocabulary for practicing spoken language, exercises for training and answers to them at the end of the publication. The material in the manual is presented as clearly and accessibly as possible, and a large number of visual examples will help you...

July 2014, Donbass. A student named Zhanna returns to her native mining village from Kharkov to look after her dying mother. At the same time, their young neighbor nicknamed Valet and an elderly secret service officer named Korol arrive from Moscow - both on assignment from the Russian military command. Something terrible and irreparable is about to happen. But this is not the first time that...

How well do you know our favorite furry companion? Did they really descend from wolves? What's the difference between a Chihuahua and a Saint Bernard? And just how smart are they? Join one friendly mutt on a journey to discover the secret origin of dogs, how genetics and evolution shape species, and where in the world his favorite ball bounced off to.

The novel begins with the events of June 23, 1941, when the offensive of the German army launched another wave of the fight against spies in the USSR. The work immerses the reader in the atmosphere of the 1930s and is based on the materials of the investigative case of the first director of the Moscow crematorium, Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenka, through whose testimony and diaries one can trace the...

A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.

The volume edited by Jochen Schubert offers a comprehensive selection from Heinrich Böll's narrative work, following several aspects: in addition to the best-known stories, there are those that are representative due to their subject and narrative style, and others that have not yet been published or are only planned hard-to-reach places. The total of 75 stories vividly document Böll's work in...

A special adaptation of the legendary book 'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry will be an important step for the smallest readers into the world of adventure and love for the world around them. The soulful story of the book is complemented by incredible illustrations by Sara Massini, in which the story comes to life and is filled with colors.

The collection 'Many funny stories' is a real chronicle of events from the life of only one and only boy, who did not let a whole bunch of people get bored for a moment - neither mom, nor dad, nor grandparents, nor neighbors, nor friends, nor kindergarten teachers , not to passers-by... And then the boy grew up, wrote and drew this wonderful, funny book and now he doesn't let any of the readers...