Stories From Today's Russia

by Ludmilla Derevzhantschenko, Ludmilla Tschakh, Svetlana Kokoryschkina, etc.

Release Date: 11 January, 1995

Edition: Paperback

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An excellent reader with curious stories

There are three novelettes here. The first is about a German who comes to stay with her teenage Petersburg penfriend, the second about a pet Polar Bear and the last about a shipwrecked boy.

The text is up-to-date and not patronising with the minimum of footnotes.

Critically speaking the stories are genuinely weird especially the true one about a polar bear who thinks he's human and who lives in a tower block. Apparently it was also made into a documentary.

If you can't find a suitable reader, then this will suffice and should take you a couple of weeks to progress through. However the varied language used shows you how Russian verbs are used in context, and thus the book will last you a long time as a grammar reference. There are also short annotated Russian stories for learners in the weekly English version of 'Moscow Today'. Check this out too.