Some might see the lessons in Odoyevsky's short and charming life manual for children old-fashioned and outdated.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...

A very old and insightful tale that holds up surprisingly well in the modern context.

This strange tale by Vladimir Odoyevsky takes the readers from Finnish backwater to St. Petersburg during the era of Peter the Great to Moscow in the years that followed Peter's...

"The wooden guest" is an odd little tale by Prince Vladimir Odoyevsky. It starts off as a kind of fairy tale for grownups and develops into a brief lesson in philosophy, with...