"Russian can be quite a challenging language to learn. Finding the right teacher, reading materials or even peers to study with can be incredibly difficult, and we're fully aware of this. This is why we've created another Russian Short Stories for Beginners to ensure that young and old students at the entry level of learning can have yet another chance to polish their Russian tongue and survive to tell the tale! Twenty easy-to-read, entertaining and...

Considered in his day Russia's greatest poet, Pushkin was famous not only for works that inspired ballets and operas, such as Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov, but for his stories--"The Queen of Spades" and many others--all of which are collected here in a translation that captures their grace and vitality. Includes "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarelled with Ivan Nikiforovich."