At the helm of the Russian government : Essay on the formation of government in the 14th-15th cent. The authors study the formation of the Russian state at the end of 15th-beginning 16th centuries as a process of creating administrative bodies: the offices of the Moscow Dukes and later of the Russian sovereign. The first Russian administrative officials were boyars, voivodes, and d`iaks...

The book includes the memoirs of Mikhail Dmitriev (1796-1866), Russian poet and writer.

В книги этой серии вошли самые популярные произведения для детей известных писателей и поэтов, которые входят в программу внеклассного чтения для начальной школы. Это не только интересные, но и нужные книги. Книга Э. Успенского 'Смешные рассказы для детей' - это очень весёлое внеклассное чтение, потому что в неё вошли любимые рассказы Э. Успенского - про мальчика Яшу и про собак. Юных учеников...

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...

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...