Twenty major Russian writers in this collection.

....*The Shot* by Alexander Pushkin
....*The Nose* by Nikolay Gogol
....*Taman* by Mikhail Lermontov
....*Bezhim Lea* by Ivan Turgenev
....*A Strange Man's Dream* by Dostoevsky
....*The Scarlet Flower* by Vsevolod Garshin
....*The Make-up Artist* Nikolay Leskov
....*The Party* by Anton Chekov
....*Twenty-six Men and a Girl* by Maxim Gorky
....*The Grand Slam* by Leonid Andreev
....*After The Ball* by Lev Tolstoy
....*Ida* by Ivan Bunin
....*Guy De Maupassant* by Isaac Babel
....*The Lion* by Evgeny Zamyatin
....*The Third Son* by Andrey Platonov
....*Spring in Fialta* by Vladimir Nabokov
....*Streams Where Trout Play* by Konstantin Paustovsky
....*The Winter Oak* by Yury Nagibin
....*On The Island* by Yury Kazakov
....*Zakhar-the-pouch* by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Absolutely fabulous stories that I will read again and again. A perfect introduction to Russian writers for those starting out. Many of the stories are not the ones found typically in collections of this kind. Each story chosen as the best example of the author's style. A mini-biography of the authors accompany each story. Excellent, highly recommended.