From the Book - Rev. and updated ed.
Alyosha the pot / Leo Tolstoy.
The bishop / Anton Chekhov.
Recollections of Leo Tolstoy / Maxim Gorky.
Light breathing / Ivan Bunin.
A girl was singing ; The stranger / Alexander Blok.
from Petersburg / Andrei Bely.
The cave / Evgeni Zamyatin.
Nikolai / Velimir Khlebenikov.
Three things in this world he loved ; We're no good at saying good-bye ; Dante ; When a man dies ; Courage / Anna Akhamatova.
The Potudan River / Andrei Platonov.
Varykino (from Dr. Zhivago) ; Hamlet (from Dr. Zhivago) ; March (from Dr. Zhivago) / Boris Pasternak.
Theodosia ; The admiralty ; The thread of gold cordial flowed ; Leningrad ; O lord, help me to live through this night ; The last supper / Osip Mandelstam.
from The master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov.
My first goose ; How was it don in Odessa ; My first fee / Isaac Babel.
Bees and people ; from Before sunrise / Mikhail Zoschenko.
The return of Chorb ; The visit to the museum / Vladimir Nabokov.
A May night (from Hope against hope) ; Last letter (from Hope abandoned) / Nadezhda Mandelstam.
Anecdotes about Pushkin's life ; The connection / Daniil Kharms.
Prosthetic appliances (from Kolyma tales ) ; A child's drawings (from Kolyma tales ) ; Lend-lease (from Kolyma tales ) / Varlam Shalamov.
Matryona's home / Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Pkhentz / Andrei Sinyavsky.
Adam and Eve / Yuro Kazakov.
from Faithful Ruslan / Georgi Vladimov.
A circle of friends / Vladimir Voinovich.
from A school for fools / Sasha Sokolov.
