“There were four of them: two brothers and two sisters. They lived in their wooden house, on the river bank, almost on the outskirts of the town. Their house...

“At the window of a grocery store, on Nevsky Prospekt, stood a plump, short gentleman with a gray mustache, wearing a spring coat, according to the season, a...

“I remember A.P.’s small, cozy office. Chekhov in his Yalta dacha. Behind the desk and behind the elegant work chair there is an ottoman in the alcove, and a...

“He could marry, marry advantageously... But he was not a scoundrel and never stopped loving that girl, an orphan, who, having graduated from college, lives ...

“Beautiful Aisha, slender as a palm tree, black-eyed and graceful as a wild gazelle, accepted from her father a precious gift, a bottle decorated with emeral...

Sergei Petrovich Voronin served on the board of the N insurance company and earned enough to live with his family in complete prosperity, unless, of course, ...

“In the long hall of the Hermitage with antique frescoes adorning the walls and oval ceiling, and with marble statues on shiny patterned parquet, a shaggy yo...

“Vladimir Petrovich Zadorov, a middle-aged man in a pair of tussocks, with a mustache and a small belly, picked a wide burdock leaf and began to fan himself ...

“This multitude of artificial, distorted words in the speech of a simple Russian person weighed heavily on the soul. I realized that Ilya has a predilection ...