Excerpt from Russian Reader: Accented Texts, Grammatical and Explanatory Notes, Vocabulary Although the notes follow the text step by step, as the points which they explain arise, they make a progressive series which takes the student from the simple facts to the complex, and, as he advances, from the known to the unknown. In dealing with Russian texts, it would be a mistake of method for a student to recognize phenomena found in his own language or in any other, dead or living, with which he might have some acquaintance. Linguistic comparisons, if they are not to be merely vain amuse ment, are not for the beginner. The student will understand that a language must be studied in itself; he will endeavor, therefore, to master from the very beginning, the texts which he is given to read. The notes furnish him the means to do this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.