This is a book from the “Classics at School” series, which contains all the works studied in elementary, middle school and high school. Don’t waste time sear...

Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev (1873–1950) is an outstanding Russian writer, a great master of image and word, who preserved in his works the memory of the special ...

“I look with sadness at the snow mountain in the garden: it has softened, it is flowing, the sled has pushed through it. It's March, winter is over. Yesterda...

“In the memorial essay “At Elder Barnabas” it is told how forty years ago I, a young, twenty-year-old student, “shaken from the Church,” chose for my wedding...

“Sushkin received a vacation. In the battery and at the headquarters they gave him instructions: the battery officer asked to bring sausages and punch carame...

“There had been no news from his son for a long time, and Andron and the old woman didn’t know what to think. “Gone and missing!” Andron went to the volost, ...

“In the morning there was white ice on the puddles, and now, in the afternoon, streams are running, dogs are basking in the sun and sparrows are briskly spla...

From the Archive-Museum of Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev, preserved by Yu. A. Kutyrina.

Christmas is coming - a holiday of hope for all humanity, bright, pure, filled with Love. God is love. The feeling of quiet, bright joy is getting closer and...

The story gives the impression of a glimpse of life.

In the story “Rosstani” the name day of the main character merges with his wake, but death itself is perceived blissfully, as a kind of link in the chain of ...