Konstantin Paustovsky

Warm Bread

About how the village boy Filka offended a wounded horse. This bad deed violates the natural order of things and brings misfortune to all the villagers - winter comes in the middle of summer. And only good can bring everything back to its place...

Kara Bugas

During the retreat from Baku in 1920, prisoners of the White Army counterintelligence are dropped off on an uninhabited island in the Caspian Sea, where they are left to die of hunger and thirst. Four of them—the Bolsheviks Miller, Zanoza, Nesterova, and the scientist Shatsky—manage to escape.

Soldier's Tale

When Peter went to the war with the Nazis to the front, his son gave him a rhinoceros beetle he captured near his home, which the soldier took with him. Now they have to plunge into battle and fighting to see how the sky becomes black because of the gunpowder and the enemy siege, and hundreds of bullets are circling around them. But they will go back to where someone waits for them.

Lermontov

Chronicle of the life of Russian poet Michail Lermontov, from the final days of Alexandr Pushkin to the fatal destiny of the poet himself.

The Disheveled Sparrow

According to the fairy tale of the same name, how the little sparrow Pashka, as a token of gratitude to his mistress, the girl Masha, fearlessly enters the crow's dwelling in order to return the girl's father's gift stolen by the crow.

Warm Bread

Promise of Happiness

It consists of Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky's three short stories about the origin of feelings, the expectation of happiness and love...

The Steel Ring

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by K. Paustovsky. About how the girl believed in a miracle, and it happened.