The Cheerful Russians

We present to your attention the best stories from the collection “Unnervous Russians” by the Russian writer Nikolay Leykin, the author of the famous “Our Abroad,” brilliantly read by Stanislav Fedosov.

The book, which the author subtitled “Stories and Pictures from Life,” includes the stories “Konoval,” “From the Life of a Beaten Man,” “With the Soothsayer,” “The Little Tale and the Oak,” and the sketches “Our Country-Place Days”—a humorous description of the dacha suburbs of the northern capital and the types of Petersburgers living there.