“Mtsensk station. Suitcase in one hand, briefcase in the other and onto the platform. The train screeched and rolled away, but I stayed behind. A bench with ...

“I would get up in the morning, wash my face, drink tea and a bagel, call our sergeant major: “Great, Ipatych.” Did you drink tea? - Yes, your Majesty. What ...

“Night has fallen on the city... The stars do not sleep, the wind wanders through the bushes, and in peacetime soldiers are supposed to sleep at night. The e...

“Mom is not entirely healthy, she doesn’t go out. Saturday is market day. Misha, as always, got ready early in the morning. He took his small net for provisi...

“Of course, there are different “terrible” things. A shark will chase you into the sea, you will barely have time to swim to the boat and flop over the side....

“Every time I go down to the well past the joyfully emerald shaggy vines for water, Fox Mickey appears from behind the house and follows me on my heels as if...

“The corps de ballet teenager, the Russian dereza goat Vava Zhuravleva, despite her fifteen years, loved sweets so much that she would even fish out sugar fr...

“The sea sometimes brings us wonderful gifts. Either he will throw away a board from which he can make a cozy bench behind the house for the entire populatio...

“Do you know what a “prep” is? Once upon a time before the war, this was the name in Russia for boys who studied in preparatory classes in gymnasiums. A man ...

“The king is calling on his only son.” “Well, Vasya, you are nineteen years old, but no actions are visible from you. Either you poison hares, or you play th...

“Apartment near PORTA NOMENTANA. Taller than a teacher, taller than a darner-tailor, even taller than two signoras, workers from a handicraft wicker furnitur...

“In a quiet hotel on the outskirts of Paris, the Russian boy Dima was sitting in his room and was bored. His real name was Vadim, but everything about a six-...