The wild success that fell upon Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov after the publication of The Twelve Chairs (1928) prompted the co-authors to resurrect their hero, the cheerful and charming swindler Ostap Bender, and set about writing The Golden Calf (1931). This time, the great schemer is developing an operation to take money from the underground millionaire Koreiko. Sparkling humor, unexpected...

Level B1. This book is intended for students who speak Russian at the first certification level. Post-text educational material is presented in the headings: Control - questions on the understanding of general factology; Motivation - issues that establish the causal relationships of reactions, actions and actions of characters; Discussion - issues that contribute to a more serious understanding...

The novel 'Doctor Zhivago' is one of the outstanding readings of Russian literature, which for many years remained closed to a wide circle of circles in the country who know about it only from scandalous and unscrupulous party criticism. The insecurity and immortality of a creative person, an intellectual and the turning points in the life of our people are the central theme of the final...

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.

lows the gripping tale of Lucas Beauchamp, a proud and defiant African-American man accused of murder. The narrative unfolds through the eyes of Charles Mallison, one of the young white boy, and his uncle Gavin Stevens, a lawyer. When Lucas is wrongfully charged with killing a white man, Charles and Gavin take it upon themselves to unravel the truth and ensure justice prevails. Their quest for...

War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It is regarded as one of the central works of world literature. War and Peace is considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievement. The novel charts the history of the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. The novel was first...