Learn Russian

This comprehensive, yet accessible description of the Russian language offers a solid presentation of grammar as an intellectual exercise and lots of stimulating drills and exercises. The best of the language, namely extracts from works of many of Russia's inimitable writers, including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Mandel'shtam, and Kharms, are accompanied by enlightening historical, cultural and social information. Learn Russian teaches readers not only how to buy an ice cream cone and ask for directions to the Kremlin, but all how to read and understand some of Russia's greatest literature in the original while absorbing the history of this great country.

Ian Press is Professor of Russian at the University of St. Andrews.