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"Записки юного врача" - цикл рассказов Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова. В цикле в несколько измененном виде изображены реальные случаи, происходившие с Булгаковым во время его работы в качестве земского врача в Смоленской губернии с 1916 по 1920 годы.

The Cherry Orchard (1903) is the final play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It is considered as one of four outstanding plays by Chekhov, along with The Seagull, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya. The narrative recounts an aristocratic landowner who returns to her family estate just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. It dramatizes the socio-economic developments in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, including the rise of the middle class after the abolition of serfdom and the waning power of the aristocracy.

Irina Millbery created this audiobook about the Russian popular romantic poet Fedor Tyutchev, who lived in the 19th century, so that people of the whole world could learn about him and come to understand Russian poetry. Prepare to listen to his poems in Russian. Irina Millbery has also translated his most popular romantic song, "When I Met You", into English.

There are few better ways to discover the identity of a nation or people than by listening to their poetry. From historical events to moral values to the political landscape (and often visions of the actual landscape), poetry, at its best, reveals the soul of a people. And Russia has offered us some of the very best.

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "A Faint Heart" (1848) is a short story about two close friends, Arkady Ivanovitch Nefedevitch and Vasya Shumkov. After a lengthy rumination on their names, Dostoevsky recounts the tale of how one of them is so overwhelmed by his good fortunate and happiness that he becomes consumed by it. The prospect of marrying his sweetheart brings him such euphoric joy that he experiences a masochistic transformation because the world wasn’t equally happy. So he ends up in an institution and his bride-to-be marries another.

After being out of the life of espionage of the Cold War, Dean is thrown back into the world that he got out of after 30 years to only discover that the lines of betrayal and loyalty get crossed. His only goal is to set the unfinished business to business that is finished by any mean necessary, even if it means he has to use his specialty craft of being the chemist. As he travels across continents to set things straight, he discovers a whole new meaning to family.

Besides being a great short story writer, Anton Chekhov was also a master of the novella. One of his best is My Life, the tale of a rebellious young man so disgusted with bourgeois society that he drops out to live amongst the working classes, only to find himself once more disillusioned.

This is a self-written life story of a Russian psychiatrist, a man bestowed high reflexivity and clairvoyance, who miraculously gets out of the wreckage of his former homeland and immigrates to the United States, a country with a completely different culture. A story of a man, who learns that culture, connects the dots, using his unique experience, and inevitably finds in the American culture many painfully familiar features that destroyed civilization in the world he came from.

Various aspects of love, life, and death, set against the circus background.

Alexander Kuprin prefaced his novel The Pit about the lives of early 20th century Russian prostitutes as follows, "I know many people will find this novel amoral and inappropriate, but nevertheless I dedicated it from the bottom of my heart to mothers and young people" Indeed, the novel's publication was followed by an explosion of outrage. The "good" society accused Kuprin of slander and forever exiled him from its sitting rooms, charity auctions, and holiday balls. Progressive intellecutals winced and shuddered, but could not help admitting Kuprin had a point.

Society gossip and life in the slum, life's tragedies and comedies, the sacred, the profane, the admirable, the ridiculous, and much more - mixed thoroughly and presented for your listening pleasure by one of the most delightful old gossips of Russian literature, Vladimir Odoyevsky.

After Vladimir Lenin’s death, Stalin orders two Jewish scientists to preserve Lenin’s body for all time. If they succeed, the rewards will be considerable. If not, it’s the gulag - or worse. Based on real events, Vern Theissen’s nimble dark comedy exposes the absurdities of Soviet life under Stalin.

Когда-то давным-давно, когда люди жили на деревьях, отбивались от врагов камнями, когда мужчины похищали друг у друга жён и из-за женщин же убивали друг друга- когда-то давным-давно захотели они идти вперёд и попробовали объядинить свои силы... Но как же всё повторяется в истории!

Огромное маковое поле и миллион оранжевых и золотистых цветов на нём- это, несомненно, радость, суета, опьянение и восторг. Но когда оно- собственность, и на эту собственность начинают посягать все, кому не лень...Трудно сохранять спокойствие и филосовский взгляд на жизнь...

Un étudiant endetté voit les notables d'une petite ville l'accueillir avec tous les honneurs : il est pris pour un révizor, un haut fonctionnaire de l'État chargé d'une inspection. Le jeune homme profite de la méprise pour duper tout le monde. Sous le comique jubilatoire, perce un humour grinçant qui invite à une réflexion pas forcément drôle mais toujours aussi actuelle et universelle.

Lorsqu'un beau fantôme tombe amoureux, les nuits de l'heureux élu changent singulièrement.

Ivan Andréiévitch, persuadé que sa femme le trompe est prêt à tout pour la confondre. Conçu comme un feuilleton radiophonique et interprété par quatre acteurs, ce programme a été diffusé à la radio.

Un caballero de industria ruso, Chichikov, ha descubierto que si compra a sus antiguos duenos los siervos muertos despues del ultimo censo, puede lograr grandes subvenciones y esas son las almas muertas. La meta del autor fue "tratar de mostrar el alma rusa, con su variedad de dotes y riquezas morales pero tambien con sus defectos, que caracterizan al pueblo ruso".

Una ventana a ideas revolucionarias. Aunque La Madre de Gorky tiene quiza un exceso de retorica, es sin embargo una ventana a las ideas revolucionarias, en especial en el conmovedor retrato de la madre que decide tomar los rumbos de su hijo, cuando este es encarcelado por sus ideas.

Nicolas Gogol es considerado como uno de los padres del realismo literario, pero en sus cuentos casi podría decirse que no solo hay realismo sino tambien una buena dosis de surrealismo, el mismo que se pondría de moda casi un siglo mas tarde, por lo que el insigne escrito es igualmente un precursor.