Saksagan

The police-officer ordered the soldiers to bind Aksionov and to put him in the cart. As they tied his feet together and flung him into the cart, Aksionov crossed himself and wept. His money...

When he had gone about twenty-five miles, he stopped for the horses to be fed. AJcsionov rested awhile in the passage of the inn, then he stepped out into the porch, and, ordering a...

Leo Tolstoy (1828 1910)Tolstoy is the most celebrated of all Russian writers. This extraordinary man, after serving in the army and leading a wild and reckless life, was for half a century the great...

How long the good old lady would have observed this promise is uncertain, for she dearly loved to talk of the marvelous, and there is a triumph in being the first to tell a...

But, whatever may have been the doubts entertained, they were completely put to an end by the arrival, next day, of regular missives confirming the intelligence of the young Count` murder, and his interment...

“What! going to leave the castle at midnight? Why, everything was prepared for his reception; a chamber was ready for him if he wished to retire.”The stranger shook his head mournfully and mysteriously: “I...

The feast went on merrily, or at least noisily, for the guests were all blessed with those keen appetites that attend upon light purses and mountain air. The Baron told his best and longest...

“I am sorry,” said the stranger, “to break in upon you thus unseasonably”Here the Baron interrupted him with a world of compliments and greetings; for, to tell the truth, he prided himself upon his...

The cavalier took but little notice of the company or the entertainment. He scarcely tasted the banquet, but seemed absorbed in admira- lion of his bride. He conversed in a low tone, that could...

The drawbridge had been let down, and the stranger was before the gate. He was a tall gallant cavalier, mounted on a black steed. His countenance was pale, but he had a beaming, romantic...