The Peasant Proprietor Ovsyanikov
  • By Ivan Turgenev
  • Duration: 0:43:46
  • Narrator: Max Bollinger
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Ovsyanikov reminded me of the Russian boyars of the times before Peter the Great.... The national holiday dress would have suited him well. He was one of the last men left of the...

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Kassyan Of Fair Springs
  • By Ivan Turgenev
  • Duration: 0:45:07
  • Narrator: Max Bollinger
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

A journey into the depth of Russian countryside where intimate connection with nature comes as a natural way of life. Meet Kassyan, who can communicate directly with birds and...

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The Man In A Case
  • By Anton Chekhov
  • Duration: 0:34:07
  • Narrator: Max Bollinger
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Surely that needs no explanation… If the teacher rides a bicycle, what can you expect the pupils to do? You will have them walking on their heads next! Read in English,...

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Short Stories By Anton Chekhov: The Bet And Other Stories
  • By Anton Chekhov
  • Duration: 1:52:47
  • Narrator: Max Bollinger
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

This volume of Chekhov stories offers a unique selection each touching upon fundamentally important subjects such as the purpose and value of life, what it takes to be human,...

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Ilyas
  • By Leo Tolstoy
  • Duration: 0:12:36
  • Narrator: Max Bollinger
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

A story of a successful farmer Ilyas who grew into one of the wealthiest in the area only to loose it all through series of bad accidents. He finds his happiness however only...

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Little Girls Wiser Than Men
  • By Leo Tolstoy
  • Duration: 0:05:11
  • Narrator: Max Bollinger
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Two little girls from different houses happened to meet in a lane between two homesteads, where the dirty water after running through the farm-yards had formed a large puddle. One...

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Polinka
  • By Anton Chekhov
  • Duration: 0:11:36
  • Narrator: Max Bollinger
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Polinka, a thin fair little person whose mother is the head of a dressmaking establishment, is standing in the middle of the shop looking about for some one. Nikolay Timofeitch, a...

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An Inadvertence
  • By Anton Chekhov
  • Duration: 0:11:22
  • Narrator: Max Bollinger
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Strizhin, who normally leads a sober and regular life, comes home from a christening party where he had permitted himself to drink four glasses of vodka and a glass of wine, the...

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Joy
  • By Anton Chekhov
  • Duration: 0:05:03
  • Narrator: Max Bollinger
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

If anything happens it’s all known at once, nothing is hidden! It's incredible! You can't imagine! Look! My name has been published! Now all Russia knows of me!' A cautionary...

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Overdoing It
  • By Anton Chekhov
  • Duration: 0:10:39
  • Narrator: Max Bollinger
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Smirnov is scared of being robbed. To compensate and deter the cabman from attacking him, he blusters on in a comical way about his fighting abilities, the three revolvers he...

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