Russian - English Dual-Language Book Based on the World Masterpiece Classical Novel by Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina: Enjoy Reading Russian Classical Lite, Paperback

The Book is a Dual Language book: Russian original and English professional translation, left-to-right page-for-page match of the extract carefully selected by the author in order to introduce the world classic to an American reader. It is supplied by cultural insight notes, some vocabulary and Russian realia explanation, as well as the observations about the translation. Leo Tolstoy is an outstanding Russian classical writer recognized all over the world. The beautiful simplicity of the rich Tolstoy's language with his deep thoughts about the human nature and human relationships is hard to underestimate. Readers will catch themselves reading and rereading Tolstoy's thoughts, wondering over and over how closely they can relate to the people and events of the 19th century. Love, a strong feeling equalizing people through ages, centuries and generations, is one of the central narrative lines of Tolstoy's plot of "Anna Karenina." The book is very informative and can be used by Russian language instructors, and students as a great additional language tool of familiarizing with Russian classics. Zoia is a trilingual professional who lives and works in California. She has a Master's Degree in Education and she teaches English, Russian, and Spanish. Zoia Eliseyeva is a native speaker of Russian. She is reading the Russian part of the book on her trilingual UTube channel "zoiacalifornia."

About the Author:

Zoia Eliseyeva (Zoya Vladimirovna Eliseyeva) is a native Russian, born in Soviet Union. She got a Bachelor's degree in English and Literature from Latvia State University in 1989, a Master's degree in Education from California State University in San Bernardino in 2002. Zoia is an author of an autobiographical-immigrant book, the chapters of which first were published in Russia and in USA back in 1996. Since then Zoia has studied Spanish and published over 16 books (English-Russian-Spanish) on Amazon-Kindle. Zoia has been providing professional language services in California, USA, as a teacher of languages, and a translator. Being an optimist who walks through life with a smile, Zoia has been appreciated by her students of Russian, English, and Spanish languages in Riga, Latvia, in California, USA, and in Oaxaca, Mexico.