“Vata” is a story by Boris Zhitkov from the series “Sea Stories”. The main character managed to identify the traitor and fool the customs inspector. Boris St...

“Black Sails” is a story by Boris Zhitkov from the series “Sea Stories”. The main character Gritsko had to endure a lot: Turkish captivity, a slave market, h...

“When I was little, I was taken to live with my grandmother. My grandmother had a shelf above her table. And there’s a steamboat on the shelf. I've never see...

Everyone has long known and loved the wonderful works of the writer Boris Stepanovich Zhitkov. There is no need to imagine his stories about animals: both pr...

Why do children like B. Zhitkov’s stories so much? Perhaps because they contain only truth. Or maybe because the author well remembered how he saw the world ...

The collection includes the following works: Yuri Lisyansky - Journey around the world on the ship "Niva" in 1803-1806 Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky - Sailor...

The book by one of the founders of Russian children's literature contains such simple and understandable Stories as “On the Ice Floe”, “The Stray Cat”, “Mail...

Stories from a classic of children's literature about our little brothers. Drawings by Alexander Shahgeldyan.

In his fairy tales and stories, the famous Russian writer Boris Zhitkov (1882–1938) simply and clearly explains important things to kids: it’s not good to li...

Stories about animals by Boris Zhitkov are short stories of relationships between humans and animals. The author describes various true stories of animals sa...