A brilliant collection of short stories by some of Russia's best writers: 1. "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" by Maxim Gorky 2. "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin 3. "The Honest Thief" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4. "The Long Exile" by Count Leo Tolstoy 5. "The Self-Sacrificing Rabbit" by Nicolai Schedrin 6. "Comrades" by Maxim Gorky 7. "A Candle" by Count Leo Tolstoy 8. "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogo 9. "The Encased Man" by Anton Chekhov 10. "The Pistol Shot" by Alexander Pushkin 11. "The Chorus Girl" by Anton Chekhov 12. "The Old Verger" by Vladimir Korolenko 13. "The Three Hermits" by Count Leo Tolstoy 14. "The Ghost of the Engineers' Castle" by Nikolai Leskov