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xx pages, 1 ℓ., 1048 pages, 1 ℓ. 23 cm |
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How Vladimir of Kiev and all Russian were baptized / Friar Nestor -- The lay of the host of Igor / Poet Unknown -- Of the Kitovras / Apocrypha -- Ilya of Murom and the sandaled pilgrims ; Ilya of Murom and the most monstrous idol / Folk epos -- Traveler's tales / Athanassii Nikitin -- God ; Plaint / Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin -- Epigram ; Poets / Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev -- The cat and the cook ; The swan, the pike, and the crab ; The ape and the spectacles / Ivan Andreievich Krylov -- Song ; The midnight muster at Waterloo ; Remembrance / Vassilii Andreievich Zhucovski -- The queen of spades ; The tale of the golden cockerel ; As leaden as the aftermath of wine ; Remembrance ; I loved you once ; Life's stage coach ; The lay of Oleg the Wise / Alexander Sergheievich Pushkin -- Ashik-Kerib: a turkish fairy tale ; The chalice of life ; Lonely and far a white sail soars ; The angel ; Testament ; A song of Czar Ivan Vassilievich the Terrible, of his young bodyguard, and of Kalashnicov, the bold trading man / Michael Urievich Lermontov -- I will saddle a steed / Alexei Vassilievich Koltzov -- The overcoat ;The inspector general ; The Russian word / Nicholas Vassilievich Gogol -- Letter to Gogol / Vissarion Gregorievich Belinski -- Fathers and sons ; The Russian tongue / Ivan Sergheievich Turgenev -- Notes from underground / Theodore Michaelovich Dostoievski -- Virtues and the vices / Michael Eugraphovich Saltycov -- Yardstick: the story of a horse ; The death of Ivan Ilyich ; The imp and the crust ; How much land does a man need? / Leo Nicolaievich Tolstoi -- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk / Nicholas Semyonovich Lescov -- Life / Vsevolod Michaelovich Garshin -- The clown ; The lowest depths / Alexis Maximovich Peshcov -- Work of art ; The chorus lady ; The three sisters / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov -- Peter and Alexis / Dmitrii Sergheievich Merezhcovski -- Lazarus ; Ben-Tobith ; Freedom / Leonid Nicolaievich Andreiev -- The amphora ; Vanquish all your gladness ; Three gobs of spit / Theodore Kusmich Teternicov -- The gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Alexeievich Bunin -- The bracelet of garnets / Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin -- The young man who flew past ; The man with a green necktie / Arcadii Timotheich Averchenco -- The republic of the southern cross ; Litany ; Her knees ; Birds of fury / Valerii Yacovlevich Briussov -- The gray-eyed king / Anna Ahmatova -- The twelve / Alexander Alexandrovich Block -- Black and white ;Little parlor-Red Riding Hood / Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayacovski -- Tooth-Jerking ; The agitator / Michael Michaelovich Zoshchenko -- Proverbs. |
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Russian literature -- Translations into English.
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English literature -- Translations from Russian.
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