“Several times a day I came to look at their work, and often at night, in the moonlight: my guests worked incessantly. When all the other animals were sleepi...

“...there are people in the world, big and small, who, although not deaf, are no better than the deaf: what you say to them, they don’t listen; They don’t un...

“Moroz Ivanovich” is a wise tale about how hard work and kindness are always rewarded, but laziness and indifference lead to nothing good.

“The good doctor tirelessly visited the sick and distributed medicine. Sometimes, when he could catch the disease in time, he cured it; but more often carele...

“The children were very happy with such a gift and ran every morning to see if apples had grown on their trees. But not only were there no apples, but there ...

“The children were not mistaken: in fact, on a leaf of a flowering bush, under a light transparent blanket that looked like cotton paper, there was a worm in...

“...my friends, it is a sin to torture poor animals that serve us for our benefit or pleasure. Whoever tortures animals without any need is a bad person. He ...

The idea of a short story dedicated to Beethoven arose from Odoevsky, apparently immediately after receiving the news of the composer’s death. The story is b...

The second part of a supposed but unwritten trilogy: in the first part we were supposed to talk about the times of Peter the Great, in the second the action ...

Driven by poverty, city residents fled to the fields, fields turned into villages, villages into cities, and cities insensitively expanded their borders; in ...

“This tale was told by the blacks of the island of Jamaica at a time when they were in slavery; Negro slavery is now abolished. Jamaica, one of the Antilles ...

“It happened once, as I remember now, in late autumn. Rain and frost poured down in torrents, rivers rolled along the sidewalks, and the wind blew out the st...