The volume includes stories from the “New ABC” and four “Russian books for reading”, “folk stories”: “How people live”, “Grain as big as a chicken egg”, “Two old men”, etc., as well as fragments unfinished historical novels by Tolstoy.The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.