““When the prophet Elisha walked along the road, small children came out of the city and mocked him: he was walking bald. He looked around and saw them and c...
“Like this, on the subway, you can’t tell anyone. Because it’s yours, blood. In your family, you don’t need an outside arbitrator. But on the first green mat...
“The parents went ahead. And Uncle Petya bravely undertook to take the children’s team: Grisha, Savva, Nadya and Katenka (eight, nine, eleven and twelve year...
“Golden specks of sun danced on the high roofs of the villas, on the bathing booths, on the bare backs of children, on a rusty sardine box that lay on a sand...
“On a slushy November evening in 1916, the infirmary priest, Fr. Basil. A small brown beard with a wedge, eyes like those of a five-year-old girl. He hung up...
“It started out ridiculously simple. On one slushy day in St. Petersburg, Vasily Nikolaevich Popov returned home from classes and found a letter on the table...
“The headmistress of the N-Mariinsky gymnasium was sitting in her office and correcting German notebooks. If we consider the office as a frame, and the headm...
“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..."<...