Here are collected the best Eastern fairy tales - with unimaginable fairy tale plots, beauties, cunning and all-seeing spirits, stupid rich people and wise poor people. It turns out that the fairy tale is much closer - you just have to open the book!

This book contains wonderful fairy tales about animals that children love so much and that every child simply must read! After all, they are filled with real unusual things, joy and wisdom! ‘The Tiger Cub on a Sunflower’, ‘The Gray Neck’, ‘The Traveling Frog’ - what could be wiser and more fun than these fairy tales, in which you can fly with ducks and a frog, and grow a sunflower with a tiger...

Amazing illustrations by the artist Yu. Korovin, an outstanding master of children's illustration, complement the atmosphere of joy from reading beautiful poetic lines.

Not all microbes are harmful. Petka is actually useful. Without people like him, we wouldn't have sour cream or kefir. There are so many microbes in one drop of water that you can't count them. You need a microscope to see these little ones. But maybe they are also looking at us - from the other side of the magnifying glass?

Georgy Alekseevich's stories about his native nature are so interesting and colorful that several cartoons ‘Forest Travelers’ (1951) and ‘In the Forest Thicket’ (1954) (co-authored with Vera Chaplina) were made based on them.

In Russian. Ships rolled. Size: 84 x 116 cm. Includes information on mineral resources.

In Russian, includes short information on each oblast of the country. Ships rolled. Size: 84 x 113cm

This collection includes stories by I. S. Turgenev from 1854–1860: ‘The Calm,’ ‘Correspondence,’ ‘Yakov Pasynkov,’ ‘Faust,’ ‘Asya,’ and ‘First Love.’ The book's content is determined not only by chronological order but also by the internal connection between these works—the theme of love. Turgenev temporarily leaves man alone with the profound, the primordial, and the eternal, revealing within...

As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own...

The purpose of this self-study guide, which includes sixteen lessons, is to help the reader quickly and effectively master the Georgian language without resorting to the help of a tutor. The book covers the entire volume of grammatical and lexical material necessary for studying the language at the initial levels A1 and A2. The authors tried to present the grammatical material in the most...

The purpose of this self-study guide, which includes 16 lessons, is to help the reader quickly and effectively master the English language. The book presents the most important information about correct pronunciation, basic grammar topics, rules for constructing an English sentence, and also provides texts for reading. The material is presented in the most understandable and accessible way and...