Признание в любви

How to talk about love in Russian? This teaching aid includes fragments from works of Russian writers of the 19th-20th centuries united by one theme: the declaration of love. This book not only helps one to study Russian with the help of Russian literary classics, but it also sheds light on the culture and psychology of Russians. It is addressed to students of Russian at the advanced level. Each text is provided with annotation about the work, its author, the main characters and the plot as well as commentary on this work. Among the writers included in this reader are: A. Pushkin, I. Goncharov, I. Turgenev, L. Tolstoi, A. Chekhov, A. Kuprin, A.N. Tolstoi, M. Sholokhov, K. Paustovskii, and V. Astaf'ev.