Despite the Roman Empire's famous 500-year reign over Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Italy does not have the same long national history as states such as France or England. Divided for much of its history, Italy's regions have been, at various times, parts of bigger, often antagonistic empires, notably those of Spain and Austria. In addition, its challenging and varied terrain...

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's...

Пять юных сыщиков снова собираются вместе на летних каникулах. В этот раз они расследуют таинственное исчезновение дорогой сиамской кошки – питомицы леди Кэндлинг, новой соседки Пипа и Бетси. Полицейский А-ну-ка-разойдись и сварливый садовник мистер Склокинг уже готовы обвинить в краже помощника садовника Люка, но сыщики отказываются верить, что этот добродушный паренёк – вор. Кто же тогда...

Эти песенки-потешки для самых маленьких, полны узнаваемых сюжетов. Вот внуки едут к бабушке. Вот семейство ест кашу и моет посуду. А это Митенька, который не хочет вставать.Проиллюстрирована книга живыми, весёлыми картинками Михаила Ромадина.Народные коми-пермяцкие песенки.Пересказ Льва Ивановича Кузьмина.

Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner's towering masterpi

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...