“Every time I go down to the well past the joyfully emerald shaggy vines for water, Fox Mickey appears from behind the house and follows me on my heels as if...

“Mtsensk station. Suitcase in one hand, briefcase in the other and onto the platform. The train screeched and rolled away, but I stayed behind. A bench with ...

“In a quiet hotel on the outskirts of Paris, the Russian boy Dima was sitting in his room and was bored. His real name was Vadim, but everything about a six-...

“The king is calling on his only son.” “Well, Vasya, you are nineteen years old, but no actions are visible from you. Either you poison hares, or you play th...

“The corps de ballet teenager, the Russian dereza goat Vava Zhuravleva, despite her fifteen years, loved sweets so much that she would even fish out sugar fr...

The legend of Russian satire and subtle humor, an employee of the famous “Satyricon”, a man with impeccable taste - Sasha Cherny (A. M. Glikberg, 1880–1932) ...

“Do you know what a “prep” is? Once upon a time before the war, this was the name in Russia for boys who studied in preparatory classes in gymnasiums. A man ...

“The sea sometimes brings us wonderful gifts. Either he will throw away a board from which he can make a cozy bench behind the house for the entire populatio...

“It’s stuffy in the stable. A swallow flies in and out through the wide open upper half of the door. She has a nest above the door - five squeaky mouths, the...

“Ivan Petrovich followed his wife’s sharp profile flashing in the mirror, looked at her dragonfly legs and sighed. The door in the hallway slammed. Gone..."<...