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A classic tale of adventure and romance by the most renowned Russian romance writer of the 20th century, Alexander Grin (real name: Alexander S. Grinevsky (1880-1932), Scarlet Sails is a great romantic story dealing with themes of the eternal: honor and dishonor, cowardice and bravery, hope and despair....

A novel by one of the outstanding Russian writers of the 20th century, Evgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937), God's Tramp explores the sunset of the Roman Empire. "God's Tramp" was the name of Attila (406-453), the leader of the Huns - one of the greatest rulers of the barbarian tribes that invaded the Roman Empire. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face-to-face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

When Arkady Petrovich returns home from college, his father finds his eager, naïve son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought home with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father with his determination to overthrow the traditional values of society. Vividly capturing the hopes and fears of a changing Russia in the 19th century, Fathers and Sons is Ivan Turgenev's masterpiece. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

The "Viy" is a monstrous creation of popular fancy. It is the name which the inhabitants of Little Russia give to the king of the gnomes, whose eyelashes reach to the ground. The following story is a specimen of such folklore. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Boyhood is the second book in the Childhood, Boyhood, Youth trilogy. Childhood was the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released in November 1852. It was the first in a series of three novels and was followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just 23 years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Znamenityj istoricheskij roman vydajushhegosja anglijskogo pisatelja, klassika mirovoj prikljuchencheskoj literatury, narjadu s L'juisom Kjerrollom i Jedgarom Po osnovopolozhnikom zhanra fjentezi Genri Rajdera Haggarda. Dejstvie romana proishodit v drevnem Egipte, vo vremena pravlenija Ptolemeev. Roman rasskazyvaet o zagovore verhovnyh zhrecov, reshivshih sbrosit' s trona nenavistnuju caricu Kleopatru, otdavshuju Egipet vo vlast' Rima.

Izdanie soderzhit velikolepnyj istoricheskij, prikljuchencheskij roman velikogo anglijskogo pisatelja shotlandskogo proishozhdenija Roberta Luisa Stivensona (1850-1894 gg.) "Chernaja strela". Roman "Chernaja strela" perenosit nas v obstanovku toj jepohi, kogda posle neudavshejsja popytki anglichan priobresti pervenstvo na kontinente nachalas' zhestokaja mezhdousobnaja rasprja, nosjashhaja v istorii pojeticheskoe nazvanie "vojny Aloj i Beloj rozy".

Kon' blednyy. Rukovoditel' boevoy gruppy ZHorzh komandirovan v H(ar'kov) dlya likvidacii gubernatora. Posle podavleniya vosstaniya 1905 goda Rossiya v ocepenenii, i tol'ko terror, kak schitayut ehsery, mozhet vyvesti stranu iz apatii. A chto dumaet po ehtomu povodu ZHorzh, ehtot utonchennyy i ehstetstvuyushchiy cinik? Dlya nego revolyuciya - prezhde vsego real'noe, tragicheskoe deystvo, v kotorom on odin iz glavnyh personazhey.

Priklyuchencheski-istoricheskiy roman Mayn Rida "Oceola, vozhd' seminolov" (1858) prinadlezhit k chislu ego luchshih proizvedeniy. On posvyashchen odnomu iz samyh dramatichnyh ehpizodov v bor'be indeycev za svoyu nezavisimost' - vtoroy seminol'skoy voyne (1835), geroicheskomu soprotivleniyu indeyskogo plemeni seminolov amerikancam, stremyashchimsya izgnat' ih s iskonnyh zemel' i pereselit' v drugie mesta.

"Obyknovennaya istoriya" - roman vospitaniya, povestvuyushchij o vzroslenii i razocharovanii v sobstvennyh idealah neiskorenimogo, kak predstavlyaetsya vnachale, provincial'nogo romantika - Aleksandra Adueva. Po priezde v Peterburg on postupaet "pod krylo" svoego dyadi - suhovatogo del'ca Petra Adueva. Nesmotrya na popytki starshego Adueva urezonit' ego, romanticheskie ustremleniya mladshego Adueva neizmenno ostavlyayut ego s razbitym serdcem.

"Na granice tuchi hodjat hmuro..." - fantasticheskij istoricheskij roman Alekseja Kulakova, kniga 1, vhodit v cikl "Aleksandr Agrenev". Rossijskaja Imperija v carstvovanie Ego imperatorskogo velichestva Aleksandra Mirotvorca... Velikaja derzhava, armiju kotoroj nazyvajut "Russkim parovym katkom", a flot po pravu zanimaet tret'e mesto v mire - ustupaja lish' anglichanam i francuzam. Jekonomika imperii bystro rastet, promyshlennost' burno razvivaetsja, zhizn' v gorodah stanovitsja luchshe den' oto dnja!

"Naslednik" - fantasticheskij istoricheskij roman Alekseja Kulakova, kniga 1, vhodit v cikl "Rjurikova krov'". Moskovskaja Rus' na izlome shestnadcatogo veka... Smutnoe i tjazheloe vremja bylo togda. S juga rubezhi molodoj derzhavy postojanno probovali na prochnost' stepnjaki Krymskogo hanstva, s zapada grozilis' vojnoj korolevstvo Shvedskoe i Velikoe knjazhestvo Litovskoe, po strane vremja ot vremeni prokatyvalis' jepidemii i neurozhai - da i inyh nevzgod hvatalo s izbytkom. Krov' ljudskaja lilas', chto vodica.

"Velikij knjaz'" - fantasticheskij istoricheskij roman Alekseja Kulakova, kniga 2, vhodit v cikl "Rjurikova krov'". Projdja skvoz' smertnuju bol' i pererozhdenie, Dmitrij nakonec-to obrel to, chto zhelal vsem serdcem. K chemu stremilsja vsju proshluju zhizn', o chem mechtal, chego byl lishen... Sem'ju. I hotja na dvore nyne ne nachalo dvadcat' pervogo veka, a konec shestnadcatogo, i vokrug polno skrytyh i javnyh vragov - zato teper' on ne odin!

Vremya deystviya romana - pravlenie Ivana Pervogo (Kality) (1325-1340), velikogo knyazya, zalozhivshego osnovy budushchego mogushchestva moskovskogo carstva. Balashovu udaetsya ubeditel'no pokazat', chto istoriya ne tol'ko delaetsya lyud'mi, no sama sostoit iz ehtih lyudey, iz raskrytiya zalozhennyh v nih vozmozhnostey. My vidim, kak volya k zhizni, realizuyas' vo vsem narode i ego predstavitelyah, prinimaet svoeobraznye kul'turnye formy.

Roman posvyashchen odnomu iz slozhneyshih i trudneyshih periodov istorii Drevney Rusi. V samom nachale XIV veka opredelilos' protivostoyanie mezhdu Tver'yu i Moskvoy v bor'be za yarlyk na velikiy stol Vladimirskogo knyazheniya i tem samym za liderstvo v sobiranii russkih zemel'. Velikodushnyy, po slovam Karamzina, knyaz' Mihail tverskoy i samolyubivyy knyaz' moskovskiy YUriy yavlyayutsya central'nymi figurami ehtoy tragicheskoy povesti.

Sbornik rasskazov "Gladiatory" izvestnogo pisatelya i uchenogo-istorika Aleksandra Nemirovskogo, pogruzhayut slushatelya v mir antichnoy drevnosti, gde deystvuyut sil'nye i muzhestvennye lyudi, sposobnye protivostoyat' dramaticheskim obstoyatel'stvam, siloy haraktera preodolet' neblagopriyatnuyu sud'bu. Istoricheskaya tochnost' udachno sochetaetsya s avtorskoy fantaziey, a blestyashchiy lakonichnyy stil' delaet ehti rasskazy legkimi dlya vospriyatiya so sluha.

Kniga vospominaniy izvestnoy pisatel'nicy Iriny Odoevcevoy "Na beregah Nevy" (1967) pogruzhaet nas v udivitel'nyy mir kul'turnogo Petrograda pervyh poslerevolyucionnyh let. Pod perom talantlivoy memuaristki voznikayut yarkie, zhivye obrazy Gumileva, Mandel'shtama, Belogo, Ahmatovoy, Georgiya Ivanova i drugih predstaviteley "serebryanogo veka". Vospominaniya o nezabyvaemom dlya avtora vremeni okrasheny v poehticheskie i nostal'gicheskie tona, pridayushchie knige osoboe ocharovanie.

V mae 1918 goda kazachiy Krug spaseniya Dona izbiraet Krasnova atamanom Voyska Donskogo, kotoroe prevrashchaetsya v samostoyatel'noe gosudarstvennoe obrazovanie s konstituciey i pravitel'stvom. V hode osvobozhdeniya Dona ot bol'shevikov Krasnov vynuzhden pribegat' k ehkonomicheskoy pomoshchi nemcev, kotorye okkupirovali sosedstvuyushchuyu Ukrainu. K seredine iyulya pochti vsya territoriya osvobozhdena.

Povesti "Afon" (1928) i "Valaam" (1929) talantlivogo pisatelya-ehmigranta Borisa Zayceva napisany po sledam ego palomnicheskoy poezdki v ehti svyatye mesta. Tihaya i uglublennaya zhizn' monahov, stremlenie k chistote serdca, postoyannaya molitva - vse to, chto bylo utracheno novoy Rossiey, beskonechno privlekaet pisatelya, ne perestayushchego i na chuzhbine razmyshlyat' o tragicheskoy sud'be svoey rodiny.