This is a dual language book (the English translation follows the original story) designed for students of intermediate and advanced levels, who can read more complex texts in Russian and are working on further improving their grammar and vocabulary. The readers should be familiar, or currently learning declension of nouns, conjugation of verbs, past, present and future tenses; understand how complex sentences are formed and how main and subordinate sentences are joined together by linking words. In a couple of chapters there is a lot of subjunctive mood as well as the construction that is...