From Ivan Turgenev's 'First Love.'

From Ivan Turgenev's 'A Swashbuckler.'

From Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 'The Actress.'

From Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Rajah's Diamond.'

From Alexander Pushkin's 'The Postmaster.'

From Mikhail Lermontov's 'The Fatalist.'