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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.

The dramatic story of "Ivan the Terrible" was created by Alexey Tolstoy, in the thirties of the XX century, during the mass repression in the USSR. In this period, Stalin, wanting to get a historical confirmation of the necessity of lawlessness, cruelty and tyranny that prevailed in the country, gave the command to unbridled glorification of Ivan IV and his entourage in the first place Malyuta Skuratov. And in this work the author was forced to retreat from historical truth, trying to exalt and to rehabilitate the image of the brutal autocrat.

Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Nekhludoff, performing his public duty as a jurist on the district court, recognizes a defendant, a prostitute accused of murder and robbery, as Katyusha Maslova, who many years ago was a maid, and a pupil of his aunt's. It was Katyusha, with whom he was not even in love, that he seduced and abandoned....

Set in late-19th-century Russian high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

This audiobook contains condensed versions of 20 literary works intended as literature lessons for children in the fourth and fifth grades. Russian classic literature is represented through the following titles: Anton Chekhov's "Dva rasskaza", Alexandr Pushkin's Arap Petra Velikogo and Kapitanskaya dochka, Alexandr Kuprin's "Sobachie schastie", Alexandr Belyayev's Chelovek, nashedshy svoe litso, Aleksey Tolstoy's Knyaz Serebrany and Petr Pervy, Ivan Bunin's "Lapti" and "Preobrazhenie", Maksim Gorky's "V lyudyakh" and many more.

The publication contains parables for adults and children of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

The book contains instructive stories - a collection of fine stories and parables on the theme of morality, the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

The book contains Tolstoy's pedagogical article "Linen-Measurer".

"Boyhood" - the second part of the famous trilogy of Leo Tolstoy's Childhood, Boyhood, Youth. In his work the author uses the elements of autobiography, which is closely intertwined with the moral and social problems of the time.

This book contains an autobiographical story of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), "Landowner's Morning".

This audiobook contains the famous story of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), which brilliantly shows how a single crime - counterfeiting currency notes (coupon) - leads to a whole series of bloody crimes.

The book contains the story of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), "Master and Man".

The book contains a cycle of stories for children about the dogs Milton and Bulka, and the legend of the elder Fyodor Kuzmich, who was buried in place of the Emperor Alexander I.

The book contains the famous story of love, "The Kreutzer Sonata", of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

This audiobook contains the story "Snowstorm", by the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). One of Tolstoy's most well-received works of realism, this prose-poem-like short story looks at the behaviors of people in extreme situations and their belief in their abilities to survive.

This novel is believed to be partially based on Tolstoy's own experiences. It is the story of a Russian soldier, Dmitri, and his time spent in the Caucasus. He befriends an old Cossack and meets a Cossack girl, Maryanka, and falls in love. As the story progresses, he learns more about himself and comes to realize how wrong and immoral his former life in Russian High Society was.

This audiobook contains two of Tolstoy's most celebrated stories. "The Diary of a Madman" and "The Devil" are partially autobiographical. Both involve journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that are also themes of Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy.

This audiobook contains Childhood Nikita by the great Russian writer Alexey Tolstoy (1882-1945). Written in the Russian language, it perfectly conveys the inner life and experiences of youth.

This audiobook contains a classic tale of army life from the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Set in the early 1800s, this short novel poignantly portrays the day-to-day lives of Hussars. Tolstoy expertly evokes the tensions between the values of one generation and the next.

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883 - 1945) was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels. His short story "The Manuscript Found Under the Bed" was written in 1922 while the author resided in Berlin.