Books for children

“Vanya the Danish” is a tale by the Arkhangelsk writer Boris Shergin (author of the beloved “Magic Ring”). The story of the prodigal son Vanya, who in his yo...

“I really love raising my daughter. Or anyone else. Who is at hand... Once I lived in Yalta, and there was no one at hand. And I really wanted to educate som...

A fairy-tale story about how a modern and very well-read girl Agatha was able to save an entire magical kingdom from an evil witch.

The Tale of Little Red Riding Hood in a new way. Katka Shaposhnikova is a thunderstorm in the yard. Her red sneakers flash on the roofs of garages and in the...

Not everything in fairy tales always happens as they say. Sometimes time passes, but something new begins. So in our story, Yaga one day decides to leave the...

A philosophical tale in which a small seed explains to mature forest trees why it does not want to germinate. They try to convince the baby, but the seed man...

In the last story from the series “Tales of Patik-Empatik” Patik-Empatik travels through the dreams of the leech trees of the past, trying to teach them to l...

The only German novel by the Czech outsider, Nietzschean philosopher Ladislav Klíma, was written in 1917. The author, convinced of the absurd ridiculousness ...

After moving and changing schools, Olesya began to experience real depression: nothing made her happy, she didn’t want anything. Even Dimka Sidorov, the most...

The story was first published in the magazine “New World” 1995, No. 9 under the title ““Meet Lenin!” From the notes of S. I. Neopekheder.”

1922. The young aristocrat Ernest Peake, living in his aunt's estate, cannot recover (primarily psychologically) from the consequences of the First World War...