<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

Tokareva, Viktoriia

iLearnRussian Publishers, an imprint of Russia Online, Inc.

<p>Bronka. An annotated Russian reader is intended for Low Intermediate and Intermediate-level students of Russian (B1-B2). "Bronka" is a powerful coming-of-age story about a schoolgirl growing up in a communal apartment in Moscow in the years following World War II, and how she copes with her cramped living quarters, boorish neighbors, and the surrounding dismal realities of 1940s urban life in Moscow. Drawing on her inner strength, Bronka manages to escape the oppressive circumstances of her teenage years, and ultimately finds love and fulfillment. But her unusual path to happiness remains the central mystery of this extraordinary tale. "Bronka" is an excellent literary text for students of Russian language, literature, and culture. The reader provides ample support for the learner, including marginal glosses, historical-cultural, and grammatical commentaries, as well as a range of exercises on word-formation, vocabulary building, and participles.</p>

Bronka. An Annotated Russian Reader (Level B1-B2, Intermediate)

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Ludmila Ulitskaya

James S. Levine

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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

Annotated Russian reader for intermediate (B1-B2) level includes three great short stories by Ludmila Ulitskaia: Paper victory, Cabbage Miracle, and Nails. Each story includes side glosses, stress marks, comments, exercises, and a full glossary. Ludmila Ulitskaya, one of Russia's most acclaimed contemporary prose writers, began her literary career with a book of stories for children, and later published a series of stories about young girls growing into adolescence during the post-Stalin period of the 1950s. The three short stories in this reader provide a window into the Soviet childhood experience in the years 1945-49 when the country was just beginning to recover from the devastation and hardships caused by the Second World War. The stories are semi-autobiographical, based on Ulitskaya's childhood memories, and each portrays child protagonists facing challenging situations in everyday life. Ulitskaya's detailed descriptions of landscape (litter-strewn courtyard), objects (worn out overshoes), sounds (the tapping of a sewing machine), smells (of sheepskin and horse harness), weather (the biting cold and overcast sky of late fall, the melting dirty snow of early spring), evoke the atmosphere and harsh realities of Russian life in the early postwar years; yet each of these stories ends on an optimistic note, engendering hope for a better future.

Paper victory. Three short stories. Annotated Russian reader (Level B1-B2)

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

Bronka. An Annotated Russian Reader (Level B1-B2, Intermediate)

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

Paper victory. Three short stories. Annotated Russian reader (Level B1-B2)