Dear friends! The 9th grade school curriculum for Russian literature involves studying a small number of works. However, they are quite voluminous and very significant in terms of cultural and educational level. You will have to study various periods of the development of Russian classical literature. You will get acquainted with the greatest works belonging to different literary movements: the outstanding monument of ancient Russian literature “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”, the story by N. M. Karamzin “Poor Liza”, the novel in verse by A. S. Pushkin “Eugene Onegin”, the novel by M. Y. Lermontov’s “Hero of Our Time”, N.V. Gogol’s poem “Dead Souls”. After analyzing each literary work in the class, the teacher usually asks him to write an essay. Students often have difficulty summarizing their knowledge. The ready-made essays presented in our book will help you cope with this. You will be able to create your own text according to the plan that comes with each essay: express your own thoughts, give examples from a literary work, supplement or change the essay. Remember that each essay is an individual creative work, an expression of your personal opinions and impressions. At the same time, do not forget that any of your opinions should be based on the content of the literary work about which you are writing, and on the theoretical knowledge that you receive in literature lessons. Do not rush to copy the finished essay into a notebook! Learn to independently express your thoughts and feelings, formulate a personal assessment. Let the texts given in the book become teaching samples for you that will help you develop your written language. We wish you success!