<p>About That, Which Did Not Happen (О том, чего не было), An annotated Russian reader is intended for low-intermediate and intermediate level students of Russian (B1-B2, ТРКИ I-II). The story is a dynamic narrative by the well-known author Victoria Tokareva about one doctor's lifelong dream to own a tiger. Tokareva masterfully portrays how Dima's dream dictates his inner world and dealings with the people around him. Through allusion, parody, and repetition, Tokareva examines the challenge of believing in dreams and aspirations in the modern world. The story will definitely engage learners as they master grammatical and lexical structures. The reader can be used as a supplement to language courses or by learners who study independently. The text of the story is slightly abridged, but preserves the original language and narrative. The book provides a wide range of exercises to check reading comprehension and the accompanying activities will help develop students' lexical and grammatical skills. Discussion questions and essay prompts enhance students' speaking and writing skills. The reader will help learners of Russian to expand their vocabulary, review and build on some common syntactic constructions, and develop language skills in formal and informal social contexts.</p>

About That, Which Did Not Happen. Annotated Russian Reader (B1-B2) in Russian

Viktoriia Tokareva

iLearnRussian Publishers, an imprint of Russia Online, Inc.

The reader introduces an important literary work to students of Russian literature and culture, and serves as an excellent text for Russian language learners. The exercises in the reader focus on verbs of motion and verbs of position - a major topic in learning Russian! The Old Woman is a uniquely strange and multifaceted work that will engage the reader in many respects. On one level, it is absurdist literature used to great humorous effect. Its illogical, nonsensical, and fantastical situations recall the surreal humor in the works of Lewis Carroll. On another level, the story, completed in 1939 following Stalin's purges and the Great Terror, can be read as political allegory, obliquely conveying the repressions, violence, and brutality of Soviet Russia of the time. The Old Woman is an innovative imaginative work that is at once disturbing, darkly funny, and thought provoking.

The Old Woman. An Annotated Russian Reader with Exercises on Verbs of Motion (B1-B2)

Daniil Kharms

James S. Levine

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About That, Which Did Not Happen. Annotated Russian Reader (B1-B2) in Russian

The Old Woman. An Annotated Russian Reader with Exercises on Verbs of Motion (B1-B2)