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The history of every town with a long history in the end grows around the myths and legends where truth and fiction are entwined. But there is a special city - the keeper of history, in which is stored a special, often mystical spirit of past centuries, where there are places where sometimes events occur that cannot be explained from the standpoint of modern science ... Such a city is Moscow.

Masquerade is a verse play written in 1835 by the Russian Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov. The four-act play, set in 1830's St. Petersburg aristocratic society, highlights the rebellious spirit and noble mind of the protagonist, Yevgeny Arbenin. It is often compared with Shakespeare's Othello in its essential story line.

"A superbly atmospheric story set in the old Prague ghetto featuring the Golem, a kind of rabbinical Frankenstein's monster, which manifests itself every 33 years in a room without a door. Stranger still, it seems to have the same face as the narrator. This extraordinary book combines uncanny psychology of doppelganger stories with expressionism and more than a little melodrama...Meyrink's old Prague - like Dicken's London - is one of the great creations of City writing...." (Phil Baker in The Sunday Times)

In the final years of his life, Chekhov produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces and some of the most highly regarded works in Russian literature. With the works collected here, Chekhov moved away from the realism of his earlier tales - developing a broader range of characters and subject matter, while forging the spare minimalist style that would inspire such modern short-story writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Obuchajushhij audiokurs, proslushav kotoryj Vy smozhete svobodno ispol'zovat' anglijskij jazyk pri poezdkah na razlichnyh vidah transporta. Kratkoe soderzhanie tem audiokursa: - V poezde, Prokat avtomobilja, Neispravnosti, Avarija, Na korable, V avtobuse, Servis, Na avtozapravke, Dorozhnye znaki.

Whatever Tolstoy wrote he addresses the voice that lies in the bottom of human soul, and using passionate word or bright images, full of truth, makes this voice sound firm and long. It explains the popularity of his name and his works far more than borders of Russia and the attention that he wakes up in Western Europe and America by his works.

The plot of Poor Liza – the seduction by a young nobleman of a girl of lower social origins – was among the most conventional in European sentimentalism. What is characteristic of Karamzin's treatment of it is the subordination of the element of social conflict to the ethical problem and the avoidance of a completely negative character in the young man, Erast.

Anatolij Fedorovich Koni, znamenityj yurist, pisatel', obschestvennyj deyatel'. S 1900 goda - pochetnyj akademik. Koni stal shiroko izvesten posle dela V. I. Zasulich, na kotorom pod ego predsedatel'stvom ej byl vynesen opravdatel'nyj prigovor.Koni byl v druzheskih otnosheniyah so mnogimi pisatelyami. On horosho znal Dostoevskogo. Vospominaniya o Dostoevskom legli v osnovu etoj knigi.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Tolstoy's final work - a gripping novella about the struggle between the Muslim Chechens and their inept occupiers - is a powerful moral fable for our time. Inspired by a historical figure Tolstoy heard about while serving in the Caucasus, this story brings to life the famed warrior Hadji Murat, a Chechen rebel who has fought fiercely and courageously against the Russian empire. After a feud with his commander he defects to the Russians, only to find that he is now trusted by neither side. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialized in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Alice's second adventure takes her through the looking glass to a place even curiouser than Wonderland. She finds herself caught up in the great looking glass chess game and sets off to become a queen. It isn't as easy as she expects: At every step she is hindered by nonsense characters who crop up and insist on reciting poems. Some of these poems, such as "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and "Jabberwocky" are as famous as the Alice stories themselves. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. The book introduces Freud's theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and also first discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex. Dreams, in Freud's view, are all forms of "wish fulfillment" attempts by the unconscious to resolve a conflict of some sort, whether something recent or something from the recesses of the past. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

The poem has always been attributed to Ivan Semenovich Barkov, who died 30 years before the birth of Pushkin. But Barkov, by all indications, couldn't have written it. Recent studies suggest the collective work of Prov Sadovsky and his comrades, the Maly Theatre actors. So, this work will most likely came into being around the mid-19th century and then evolved over time.

The book Moscow and Muscovites, written by Mikhail Nikolayevich Zagoskin, author of the famous historical novel Yuri Miloslavskii or Russian in 1612, Roslavlev or Russian in 1812," and many other works. Moscow and Muscovites - vivid and fascinating essays, short stories, stage "of the home and social life in Moscow," since 1814, and 40s of the XIX century.

A Common Story was the first of novel by Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov, a Russian novelist. This is an ageless - and predictable - story of the transformation of an idealistic young man from a small town into a rich and cold-hearted metropolitan.

With this audiobook, you can learn the following topics: communication, how to function at a bank, restaurant, or hotel, and how to act during a first encounter. Learn the everyday usage of phrases for the following topics: travel, shopping, entertainment, transportation, and excursions.  

Anglo-russkij, russko-anglijskij audioslovar' dlja nachinajushhih. Kratkoe soderzhanie tem: - Povsednevnye vyrazhenija, Jazyk, Strana i nacional'nost', Vremja, Pogoda, Pitanie, restorany, kafe, Zdorov'e, samochuvstvie, Vozrast, vneshnost', Sem'ja. Rodstvennye otnoshenija, Rabota, professija, Pokupki, Den'gi, Razgovor po telefonu, V gostinice, Situacii v gorode, Puteshestvija, Situacii na tamozhne.

Obuchajushhij audiokurs, proslushav kotoryj Vy smozhete svobodno ispol'zovat' anglijskij jazyk vo vremja poseshhenija jekskursij. Kratkoe soderzhanie tem audiokursa: - Plany, Informaci, Razvlechenija, Kak projti, Fotografii.

Dannyj audiokurs poznakomit vas s poslednej versiej operacionnoj sistemy Mac® OS X® 10.7 Lion. Posmotrev ego, vy legko osvoite interfejs, smozhete nastroit' sistemu, vospol'zovat'sja poleznymi prilozhenijami i utilitami, uznaete o novyh vozmozhnostjah i funkcijah dannoj operacionnoj sistemy!