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

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....

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...

This annotated edition of 'Bronka' introduces students of Russian to a profoundly moving story by Ludmila Ulitskaya, one of Russia's most important contemporary novelists and short story writers. Ulitskaya's elegant prose, and her detailed descriptions of everyday life, makes 'Bronka' an excellent literary text for students of Russian language, literature, and culture.This reader is intended...

This is a parallel-text edition of 'Bronka,' a short story by Ludmila Ulitskaya, one of contemporary Russia's most popular and internationally acclaimed authors. First published in 1989, the story depicts the childhood and youth of Bronka, the eponymous heroine, who lives with her mother in a drab communal apartment in a rundown Moscow neighborhood in the years following the Second World War....

Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to...

A textbook of the Russian language for foreigners in three parts for adult students (all forms of education, including the system of pre-university training). The second part prepares for the basic level test (A2). Recommended by the Expert Commission of the State System for Testing Foreign Citizens in the Russian Language. Colored illustrations, tables. Audio materials are available by QR code...

Letting a red rooster go and catching a goldfish is only a small part of what the guardsman, the hope and support of the Russian state, must do in a day. Word and deed is his motto, loyalty to superiors is his principle, doublethink is his morality, violence is his tool. The story of Vladimir Sorokin 'The Day of the Oprichnik' is both a farce action that can make you laugh to the point of...

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...

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.