A large country in delightful little texts. Reading while learning a language – there’s hardly a more enjoyable and easier way to solidify and expand your initial knowledge of a foreign language. Popular rhymes and poems, proverbs and riddles, tongue twisters, jokes, short stories, and brief factual texts each tell their own tale about everyday life in Russia, its customs, traditions, and a few curiosities. They take the reader on a highly entertaining journey that, like the familiar Matryoshka doll, continually reveals something new.