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...

Kitty Kocia and her friend Pacek find out that a smile has great power. On a walk, they smile 'good morning' to people they meet and notice that everyone's mood immediately improves. They decide to smile as often as possible and say nice things to people.

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

Format: 30 x 30 cm, 11.81 x 11.81 inches

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 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....

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....

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...

The book has a practical focus. A variety of exercises presented in the manual contribute to the integrated development of students' speech, as well as to consolidate vocabulary and the assimilation of grammatical forms and structures contained in texts and dialogues. The manual is addressed to students who speak Russian in the amount of a basic level, and can be used both for work in the...

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...

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...