The manual is intended for foreigners with a basic level of training in the Russian language. It acquaints students with the basic regularities of the functioning of verbs of motion in speech, prevents mistakes in mixing verbs that are close in meaning, and gives an idea of their use in a figurative sense. A2-B1

This manual is addressed to foreign students mastering the Russian language in the Second Certification Level (B2) program. The purpose of the manual is to develop reading skills, expand vocabulary, and improve oral speech. The manual presents the stories of contemporary Russian writers, minimally adapted and shortened for educational purposes. The manual consists of two parts and is built on...

In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The intricate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from...

Guzel Yakhina is the brightest debutante in the history of modern Russian literature, laureate of the Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana prizes, author of the bestselling books Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes and My Children. Her new book Echelon to Samarkand is a travel novel and a kind of 'red eastern'. 1923 year. Echelon chief Deev and commissar Belaya evacuate five hundred street children from Kazan to...

The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of

This book is the author's full version of the famous documentary novel 'Babi Yar' about the extermination of the Jewish population of Kiev in the autumn of 1941. Anatoly Kuznetsov, then a teenager, himself witnessed the executions of Kiev Jews, communicated a lot with people who survived the catastrophe, collected memories of other contemporaries and eyewitnesses. His novel was first...

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are probably the most famous boys in the whole wide world - kind and sincere, savvy and reckless, charming, like childhood itself, easily find the key to any heart. This is how Tom and Huck created the pen - or rather, the typewriter - of the great American writer Mark Twain. We invite our readers to plunge into a wonderful world full of adventures, mysteries...

ook, Foma Hryhorovych tells the story of how his grandfather was sent with a letter to the queen. On the way, the grandfather met a Cossack, and he confessed to him that he had sold his soul to the devil and that same night will have to pay. Grandfather decides to help him and chats all night, but his sleep overwhelms him and he falls asleep. Waking up, the grandfather realizes that his plan...

Книга классика детской литературы Николая Носова «Приключения Незнайки и его друзей» впервые была опубликована в 1954 году и положила начало трилогии о весёлых и озорных малышах из Цветочного города. Главный герой повествования Незнайка обладает самыми противоречивыми качествами, но по натуре он добрый и готов совершать хорошие поступки. Он сообразительный и смелый, а ещё очень обаятельный. Не...

За все в этой жизни нужно заплатить. За мимолетные минуты славы, богатство и за многое другое поплатился главный герой нашей книги. Как он потом понял ни деньги, ни известность не могут заменить чувства, которые испытывает человек, испытывающий любовь, радость, человеческое счастье. Дойдя до вершины славы, герой заплатил главным в жизни – своим сердцем. Смерть ходит за ним по пятам. Кто может...

История о современных украинских парламентариях, о стране, их обслуживающей, о красоте и ужасе жизни, сосуществующих в некой логичной, но двусмысленной гармонии, где реальность доведена до абсурда и воспринимается как фантастика.