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Irina Millbery created this audiobook about the Russian popular romantic poet Fedor Tyutchev, who lived in the 19th century, so that people of the whole world could learn about him and come to understand Russian poetry. Prepare to listen to his poems in Russian. Irina Millbery has also translated his most popular romantic song, "When I Met You", into English.

There are few better ways to discover the identity of a nation or people than by listening to their poetry. From historical events to moral values to the political landscape (and often visions of the actual landscape), poetry, at its best, reveals the soul of a people. And Russia has offered us some of the very best.

After being out of the life of espionage of the Cold War, Dean is thrown back into the world that he got out of after 30 years to only discover that the lines of betrayal and loyalty get crossed. His only goal is to set the unfinished business to business that is finished by any mean necessary, even if it means he has to use his specialty craft of being the chemist. As he travels across continents to set things straight, he discovers a whole new meaning to family.

Besides being a great short story writer, Anton Chekhov was also a master of the novella. One of his best is My Life, the tale of a rebellious young man so disgusted with bourgeois society that he drops out to live amongst the working classes, only to find himself once more disillusioned.

This is a self-written life story of a Russian psychiatrist, a man bestowed high reflexivity and clairvoyance, who miraculously gets out of the wreckage of his former homeland and immigrates to the United States, a country with a completely different culture. A story of a man, who learns that culture, connects the dots, using his unique experience, and inevitably finds in the American culture many painfully familiar features that destroyed civilization in the world he came from.

Various aspects of love, life, and death, set against the circus background.

Alexander Kuprin prefaced his novel The Pit about the lives of early 20th century Russian prostitutes as follows, "I know many people will find this novel amoral and inappropriate, but nevertheless I dedicated it from the bottom of my heart to mothers and young people" Indeed, the novel's publication was followed by an explosion of outrage. The "good" society accused Kuprin of slander and forever exiled him from its sitting rooms, charity auctions, and holiday balls. Progressive intellecutals winced and shuddered, but could not help admitting Kuprin had a point.

Society gossip and life in the slum, life's tragedies and comedies, the sacred, the profane, the admirable, the ridiculous, and much more - mixed thoroughly and presented for your listening pleasure by one of the most delightful old gossips of Russian literature, Vladimir Odoyevsky.

Когда-то давным-давно, когда люди жили на деревьях, отбивались от врагов камнями, когда мужчины похищали друг у друга жён и из-за женщин же убивали друг друга- когда-то давным-давно захотели они идти вперёд и попробовали объядинить свои силы... Но как же всё повторяется в истории!

Огромное маковое поле и миллион оранжевых и золотистых цветов на нём- это, несомненно, радость, суета, опьянение и восторг. Но когда оно- собственность, и на эту собственность начинают посягать все, кому не лень...Трудно сохранять спокойствие и филосовский взгляд на жизнь...

Can an ordinary object - a watch, a piece of furniture, or an old rug - change the course of one's life? "Listen and find out" suggests an underappreciated master of Russian classical literature, Alexander Kuprin.

The Yiddish King Lear: The Jewish King Lear by Jacob Gordin is perhaps one of the most famous Yiddish plays of all time. Adapted in English and for the stage by David Serero. Starring David Serero as Reb Dovidl Moysheles.

Andrey enters his final year of medical studies in 1854 with an empty belly, empty pockets, and secondhand clothes hanging together by wishful thinking. When Russia blunders into the misbegotten Crimean War, Tsar Nicholas recruits medical students to the front, and Andrey grabs at this flash of good luck. But his sanity is soon tested as he is forced to witness the most senseless and utter disregard for human life imaginable - where the death of a man holds no more significance than the death of a beetle.

V ehtot sbornik radiopostanovok voshli sleduyushchie poehmy: Andzhelo (ispolnyaut: A.Konsovskiy, Yu.Bugaeva, Vyach.Zaharov), Bahchisarayskiy fontan - ispolnyaet G. Bal'yan, Brat'ya-razboyniki - ipolnyaet Evgeniy Kindinov, Domik v Kolomne - ispolnyaet Aleksandr Kalyagin, Kavkazskiy plennik - ispolnyaet Igor' Kvasha, Kamennyy gost' - v rolyah: V. Vysotskiy, O. Yakovleva i dr, Mednyy vsadnik - ispolnyaet Oleg Efremov, Motsart i Sal'eri - ispolniteli: A. Filozov, Yu. Bogatyrev, Pir vo vremya chumy - ispolniteli: A. Efros, O. Yakovleva, V. Kamaev, A.Spivak, V. Saltykovskaya, A.Peselev.

"Mertvye dushi" - proizvedenie Nikolaya Vasil'evicha Gogolya, zhanr kotorogo sam avtor oboznachil kak poemu. Iznachal'no zadumano kak trekhtomnoe proizvedenie. Pervyy tom byl izdan v 1842 godu. Ispolnyaet Mihail Ul'yanov.

"Demon" - radiopostanovka po odnoimennomu proizvedeniyu Mihaila Yur'evicha Lermontova. Ispolnyaet Leonid Markov.

"Svetit, da ne greet" - radiokompozitsiya spektaklya Moskovskogo teatra im. A. S. Pushkina po odnoimennoy p'ese.

"Gore ot uma" - spektakl' po odnoimennoy p'ese MHAT im.

Par un rigoureux après-midi d'hiver, le riche marchand Brekhoußnov décide d'aller négocier l'achat d'une forêt chez un hobereau du voisinage. Nikita, son valet de ferme, et son cheval bai Belle-Face l'accompagnent. En cours de voyage, ils sont surpris par une violente tempête de neige. Ne pouvant laisser passer une bonne affaire, Brekhounov s'acharne à vouloir continuer sa route. Cette décision sera une grave erreur car le temps est désastreux, le cheval se fatigue et ils se perdent.

Ivan Ivanovitch et Ivan Nikoforovitch sont voisins. S'ils sont de complexions fort dissemblables - l'un occupe son temps à la conduite de ses affaires quand l'autre préfère tendre béatement son dos au soleil - ces deux notables de Mirgorod n'en sont pas moins les meilleurs amis du monde. Une dispute pour des vétilles va pourtant remettre en question cette belle amitié et, malgré les efforts des autres notables de la ville, les entraîner dans des démarches judiciaires pour le moins démesurées.