In the department of--but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of...

The town of B-- had become very lively since a cavalry regiment had taken up its quarters in it. Up to that date it had been mortally wear...

(The “Viy” is a monstrous creation of popular fancy. It is the name which the inhabitants of Little Russia give to the king of the gnomes...

In the department of -- but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, cour...

I On the 25th March, 18—, a very strange occurrence took place in St Petersburg. On the Ascension Avenue there lived a barber of the nam...

I On the 25th March, 18—, a very strange occurrence took place in St Petersburg. On the Ascension Avenue there lived a barber of the name ...

Thoma Grigroovitch had one very strange eccentricity: to the day of his death he never liked to tell the same thing twice. There were ti...

October 3rd.—A strange occurrence has taken place to-day. I got up fairly late, and when Mawra brought me my clean boots, I asked her ...

I Songs were echoing in the village street. It was just the time when the young men and girls, tired with the work and cares of the da...