“For about half of the 16th century, there lived in Ferrara (it then flourished under the scepter of its magnificent dukes, patrons of the arts and poetry) -...

Having begun his literary career as a writer of the “natural school,” Turgenev, in the story “The Calm,” continued the fight against false romanticism, culti...

In this book you will read stories about the first love of the wonderful Russian writer I.S. Turgenev.

“I was returning from hunting and walked along the garden alley. The dog ran ahead of me..."

A touching, tender and unusually lyrical story “Spring Waters” is dedicated to the theme of finding and losing true love and its collision with “dark”, irrat...

“It was in St. Petersburg, in winter, on the first day of Maslenitsa. I was invited to dinner by one of my boarding house comrades, who in his youth was know...