Russian · High School · Level I

Russian I

A full year of first-year Russian for high school: thirty-six lessons from the Cyrillic alphabet and stress to the six cases, the present, past and future tenses, verbs of motion and reflexive verbs, the stories of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Pushkin and Tolstoy, Christmas and Easter in Russia, and a verse of the Synodal Bible beside the King James Version in every lesson, with Russian paintings by Matejko, Tropinin, Bogdanov-Belsky, Kustodiev, Polenov, Surikov, Levitan, Kiprensky and others.