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L'immensité de la steppe, l'avidité et la fatuité française précipitent la Grande Armée vers la défaite. Koutousov, en fin stratège, ne fait qu'accompagner la décomposition de l'adversaire. À la suite de plusieurs défaites dues à une totale impréparation, les Français n'ont d'autre choix que de quitter Moscou et de se replier dans le plus grand désordre, harcelés par des groupes de partisans, suivis de près par les troupes russes et abandonnés par leur empereur.

Despite his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 44, Chekhov was a prolific writer and produced more than 250 short stories in addition to several novellas and a novel. The Russian was also a practicing doctor. A celebrated playwright, Anton Chekhov is often recognised as an influential figure of early modernism of the theatre in addition to being held in high esteem by the likes of George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf, although much praise was not as forthcoming until after his death in 1904.

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town with a bizarre but seductive proposition for local landowners. He proposes to buy the names of their serfs who have died but who are still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them. But what collateral will Chichikov receive for these "souls"?

Alexander Pushkin's greatest short story. Hermann, a young German officer serving in the Engineers regiment, is obsessed by gambling, although he never indulges in it himself. One night he hears a tale about how a wealthy 87-year-old Countess in St. Petersburg once learned the secret of how to win on three cards from the Duc d'Orleans. He becomes obsessed with learning the secret himself. In pursuit of this aim, he becomes enamoured of the Countess' companion, the beautiful Lizaveta.

Издательский Дом "Союз" продолжает серию аудиокниг "Всемирная аудио библиотека" и представляет вашему вниманию второй аудио сборник "Классика русского рассказа", в который вошли лучшие произведения русской классической литературы.

A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him, is faced with an opportunity to solve his financial problems with one simple but horrifying act: the murder of a pawnbroker. She is, he feels, just a parasite on society. But does the end justify the means?

Эта книга была написана много лет назад под влиянием короткого текста Линор Горалик про Ахиллеса и черепаху. Без текста Линор этой книги не было бы, поэтому у нее два автора, достаточно одиноких, чтобы не услышать друг друга, чтобы не быть услышанными никогда.

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol includes the works of the famous writer Nikolai Gogol: The Viy, A May Night, Memoirs of a Madman, The Nose, The Cloak, Christmas Eve.

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence.

Повесть Вечер накануне Ивана Купала - удивительное произведение, автором которого является великолепный драматург Николай Васильевич Гоголь. Бедный Петрусь, полюбив дочь богатого хозяина, готов ради любви на все: вечером накануне Ивана Купала он вместе с бродягой Басаврюком отправляется на поиски зарытого в лесу клада... Повесть Вечер накануне Ивана Купала входит в цикл Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки, впервые была издана в 1830 году.

Kholstomer is a work by Leo Tolstoy that has been referred to as "one of the most striking stories in Russian literature". It was started in 1863 and left unfinished until 1886, when it was reworked and published as Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse. This story prominently features the technique of defamiliarization by adopting the perspective of a horse to expose some of the irrationalities of human conventions. Kholstomer's altruistic life is recounted parallel to that of his selfish and useless owner. At the end of the story horse dies but his corpse gives birth to a new life - that of wolf cubs.

Filled with unforgettable characters, rich in history and social realism, Anna Karenina is a masterpiece of world literature, a story that fires the imagination and touches the heart.

The Nose is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time, Gogol's works were primarily focused on surrealism and the grotesque, with a romantic twist. Written between 1835 and 1836, The Nose tells the story of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. The Nose was originally published in The Contemporary, a literary journal owned by Alexander Pushkin.

Эта книга была придумана 1 ноября 1995 года, в тот самый день, когда автор Лабиринтов Ехо создал новый документ в текстовом редакторе и написал: "Никогда не знаешь, где тебе повезет" – фразу, с которой начинается длинная сага о приключениях сэра Макса. Ну, то есть на самом деле не "придумана", а просто возникла перед внутренним взором автора - вся, целиком. А потом снова исчезла практически без следа, как это часто случается с внезапными озарениями. Но время от времени автору удавалось что-то вспомнить и записать.

Эта книга была придумана 1 ноября 1995 года, в тот самый день, когда автор Лабиринтов Ехо создал новый документ в текстовом редакторе и написал: "Никогда не знаешь, где тебе повезет" – фразу, с которой начинается длинная сага о приключениях сэра Макса. Ну, то есть на самом деле не "придумана", а просто возникла перед внутренним взором автора - вся, целиком. А потом снова исчезла практически без следа, как это часто случается с внезапными озарениями. Но время от времени автору удавалось что-то вспомнить и записать.

Повести Белкина великого русского прозаика и поэта А. С. Пушкина — начало русской классической литературы, высоко оцененные как современниками, так и последующими писателями. Цикл состоит из пяти повестей: "Выстрел", "Метель", "Гробовщик", "Станционный смотритель" и "Барышня-крестьянка". Каждая повесть написана в разных жанрах: "Выстрел" —романтизм; "Метель", "Станционный смотритель" и "Барышня-крестьянка" —сентиментализм; "Гробовщик" — готическая проза.

Christmas Eve is the first story in the second volume of the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. The story opens with a description of the winter scenery of Dikanka, Ukraine, a witch flying across the night sky and the devil stealing the moon and hiding it in his pocket, first playing with it in the sky, which no one in the village notices. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at the village blacksmith, Vakula, because he paints religious art in the church.

One great example of Chekhov's minimalism is found in The Beauties, a very short "story" - I use the term loosely, because it is really just two snapshots, two unrelated anecdotes in which a man describes seeing true beauty in two different women. These women are imperfect, yet enigmatically alluring. Chekhov's genius lies in the way he manages to convey with such apparent effortlessness a profound sense of the mystery of beauty, and of the sadness of those who observe and think.

Many of the greatest Russian authors, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Pushkin, produced crime and mystery fiction, a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era because it did not glorify the state, but rather, gave significance to individual characters. With the fall of the Soviet Union, mystery writers have become some of the most successful novelists in Russia, and there is a renewed interest in, and appreciation of, the great crime classics of an earlier era. This volume is the first collection ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction.

"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.