The portable Russian reader / a collection newly tr. from classical and present-day authors, chosen and done into English, with a foreword and biographical and other notes.
A BUDGET OF LETTERS. Supplication to Prince Yaroslav / Daniel of the Oubliette -- A historical correspondence / Prince Andrew Kurbsy and Ioann the Awesome -- The retort courteous / Koshevyi Hetman Ivan Sirco and the Dniepr Brotherhood -- Letters to his patron: On poets in garrets -- Concerning certain experiments / M.V. Lomonossov -- Letter to the publisher / N.I. Novikov -- Last letter / I.S. Turgenev -- Last letter [to Leo Tolstoy] / I.S. Turgenev -- [Two letters to A.S. Suvorin] / A.P. Chekhov -- A new handful of old proverbs: Choice Russian proverbs / Catherine the Great -- Fruits of meditation: thoughts and aphorisms (selected) / Kosma P. Prutkov -- Folk sayings and proverbs.
