Sasha Cherny (1880–1932) is well known to the reader primarily as a poet - a brilliant satirist and subtle, ironic lyricist. This book contains the best pros...
“The aroma above the counter was thick and complex: the sprat spread out on the plates smelled tediously in the July stuffiness; the red pies emitted the aro...
“It was in Odessa, in the distant days of my childhood. My younger brother Volodya, despite his six and a half years, was an unusually serious boy. All day l...
“The headmistress of the N-Mariinsky gymnasium was sitting in her office and correcting German notebooks. If we consider the office as a frame, and the headm...
“It started out ridiculously simple. On one slushy day in St. Petersburg, Vasily Nikolaevich Popov returned home from classes and found a letter on the table...
“On a slushy November evening in 1916, the infirmary priest, Fr. Basil. A small brown beard with a wedge, eyes like those of a five-year-old girl. He hung up...
“Golden specks of sun danced on the high roofs of the villas, on the bathing booths, on the bare backs of children, on a rusty sardine box that lay on a sand...
Everyone knows: a dog is a man’s friend. Since ancient times, these intelligent animals have not only served people, but are also faithful companions for the...
“Like this, on the subway, you can’t tell anyone. Because it’s yours, blood. In your family, you don’t need an outside arbitrator. But on the first green mat...
““When the prophet Elisha walked along the road, small children came out of the city and mocked him: he was walking bald. He looked around and saw them and c...
Professional pilot Sidigron is trying to get out of the central square. Everything will go according to plan until the main character realizes what price he ...
You can't be an enviable bride for long. That is, every year there are fewer and fewer envious people, but still no one gets married. Katerina Golubkova is p...