“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 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...
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...
"Rolling with peas" is a Ukrainian folk song known to children and adults all over the world. This fairy tale tells about the adventures of a girl who left her ...
“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..."<...
“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...
"Swan Coolness" is a cult literary masterpiece of the Ukrainian writer Pavlo Zagrebelny. The book tells about complex relationships in an intelligent family aga...
“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...
“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 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) ...
“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...
“Apartment near PORTA NOMENTANA. Taller than a teacher, taller than a darner-tailor, even taller than two signoras, workers from a handicraft wicker furnitur...
