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Some might see the lessons in Odoyevsky's short and charming life manual for children old-fashioned and outdated. Some might even bristle at certain suggestions. However, we would like to urge our listeners to look beyond the somewhat antiquated rhetoric and consider these lessons as they were intended - guidelines for bringing up intelligent, well-educated, considerate, and industrious future spouses, parents, and, most importantly, engineers of the future world.

This strange tale by Vladimir Odoyevsky takes the listeners from Finnish backwater to St. Petersburg during the era of Peter the Great to Moscow in the years that followed Peter's death; from solid everyday reality to alchemy and surreal visions of a crazed brain. Follow us on this fantastic journey with the characters of Salamander.

The long-awaited second volume of Vladimir Odoyevsky's excellent prose is here at last, delivering more titillating gossip, astute society remarks, a touch of mysticism, a healthy dose of the ridiculous, and much more.

His own ancestry and life very nearly the stuff of novels, it is no wonder Russian writer, philosopher, musical scholar, and politician Vladimir Odoyevsky had left behind an endlessly varied, fascinating, and captivating body of work. Imaginings of Years Past gives listeners a taste of the strange and wonderful literary legacy left behind by this strange and wonderful man.

Society gossip and life in the slum, life's tragedies and comedies, the sacred, the profane, the admirable, the ridiculous, and much more - mixed thoroughly and presented for your listening pleasure by one of the most delightful old gossips of Russian literature, Vladimir Odoyevsky.

An old and insightful tale, Indian Tale About Four Deaf Men holds up surprisingly well in the modern context.

Prince Vladimir Odoyevsky's beautifully written and powerful take on the age-old question: "What would happen if you received exactly what you wanted?"

The Wooden Guest is an odd little tale by Prince Vladimir Odoyevsky. It starts off as a kind of fairy tale for grown-ups and develops into a brief lesson in philosophy, with frightening implications when it comes to human nature.

A fairly fictionalized but nevertheless powerful and poignant take on Beethoven's last days by Vladimir Odoyevsky.

Detskij spektakl' "Gorodok v tabakerke" po odnoimennoj skazke russkogo pisatelja Vladimira Fedorovicha Odoevskogo. Geroj jetoj skazki - malen'kij mal'chik Misha. Jeto samyj obyknovennyj mal'chik i, kak vse obyknovennye mal'chishki, Misha ochen' ljubit igrushki. Osobenno zhe emu nravjatsja zavodnye igrushki, v kotoryh, esli ih zavesti, nachinajut krutit'sja kakie-to kolesiki, valiki. U Mishinogo papy byla udivitel'naja muzykal'naja tabakerka, ukrashennaja bashenkami.

Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevskij (1803 - 1869) – vydajushhijsja russkij pisatel' i filosof, avtor mnozhestva hudozhestvennyh proizvedenij dlja detej, kotorye stali klassikoj detskoj literatury. Jeti udivitel'nye skazki unesut vas v volshebnyj mir, gde pravit muzyka, i sovershajutsja neverojatnye chudesa.