"Alyosha the Pot", Leo Tolstoy; "The Bishop", Anton Chekhov; "Recollections of Leo Tolstoy", Maxim Gorky; "Light Breathing", Ivan Bunin; "Time", Nadezhda Teffi; "A Girl Was Singing" "The Stranger", Alexander Blok; from "Petersburg", Andrei Bely; "The Cave", Evgeni Zamyatin; "Nikolai", Velimir Khlebnikov; "Three Things in this World He Loved" "We're No Good at Saying Good-bye" "Dante" "When a Man Dies" "Courage", Anna Akhmatova; "The Potudan River", Andrei Platonov; "Varykino" "Hamlet" "March", Boris Pasternak; "Theodosia" "The Admiralty" "The Thread of Gold Cordial Flowed" "Leningrad" "O Lord, Help Me to Live Through this Night" "The Last Supper", Osip Mandelstam; from "The Master and Margarita", Mikhail Bulgakov; "My First Goose" "How It was Done in Odessa" My First Fee", Isaac Babel; "Bees and People" from "Before Sunrise", Mikhail Zoshchenko; "Envy", Yuri Olesha; "The Return of Chorb" "The Visit to the Museum", Vladimir Nabokov; "A May Night" "Last Letter", Nadezhda Mandelstam; "Anecdotes About Pushkin's Life" "The Connection", Daniil Kharms; "Prosthetic Appliances" "A Child's Drawings" "Lend-Lease", Varlam Shalamov; "Matryona's Home", Alexander Solzhenitsyn; "Pkhentz", Andrei Sinyavsky; "Adam and Eve", Yuri Kazakov; from "Faithful Ruslan", Georgi Vladimov; "A Circle of Friends", Vladimir Voinovich; from "A School for Fools", Sasha Sokolov.
