The series of stories about Musa Starobelskaya - “Happy Everyday Life”, “Halcyon Years” and “First Dreams” - is written by the Russian writer of the late 19t...

The mischievous Musya has just entered the St. Petersburg gymnasium, she is absorbed in new impressions and writes them down with pleasure in her diary. The ...

The orphaned daughter of a schoolteacher is forced to become a housekeeper in a rich house. Her lot would have been unsweetened if not for the intervention o...

Nine-year-old Marusya is simply called Musya by all her relatives and friends. The little mischief-maker herself describes funny stories from her life: how s...

The books of Vera Sergeevna Novitskaya, a writer at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, were widely known and loved by girls and their parents. Vera Ser...

The daughter of a French governess, after the death of her mother, remains in the manor house of the Troyanov landowners, where she is raised as her own daug...