The book includes the story “A Brave Life” by Lydia Charskaya. The heroine of the story is the famous “cavalry maiden” Nadezhda Durova, a participant in the ...

The book by L. Charskaya, the most popular children's writer of the early 20th century, includes two stories: “Sibirochka” and “Notes of a Little Schoolgirl”...

Lord! What would she give now, just to find herself again in the boarding dormitory, flooded with the soft light of a night lamp; to see again the girls who,...

Ugly, unsociable and modest Liza, from the quiet and almost family-like atmosphere of the boarding house, where everyone is accustomed to her appearance and ...

Half-fable, half-fairy tale

The erotic story “The Bacchante” was long banned by censorship and removed from libraries.

Lucky, Mik-Mik, Ami... All these are the names of the characters in the book, invented by the main character. They were invented not on a whim, but from the ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the works of L. Charskaya (1875–1937) were extremely popular among young people. Her numerous stories and novels sang s...

This collection includes well-known fairy tales. The artistic design of the book uses works of lacquer miniature painting of Fedoskino folk craft. For primar...

The collection includes works about girls and for girls: the stories “Chukhlashka” by Nikolai Wagner and “The Sphinx” by Lydia Charskaya; stories by L. Nelid...