🎧 Russian level: B1+ (Intermediate+)

The episode is in slow, clear Russian, with explanations of useful words and expressions along the way.

👻 What happened in two mysterious houses on Moscow's Tverskaya Street?

In this episode of Moscow in Stories, I tell a ghost story recorded by Vladimir Gilyarovsky in Moscow and Muscovites. We’ll meet a princess, a cruel manager, a wild-animal trainer and a panther — and discover what was really happening inside the supposedly haunted houses.

📖 In this episode:

• Zinaida Volkonskaya's literary salon, visited by Alexander Pushkin.
• Strange noises, a white ghost and a frightened princess.
• A panther, a police investigation and the truth behind the mystery.
• The later history of the two houses, including the Eliseev Store.
• Places you can visit on Tverskaya Street today.

📚 Transcript, vocabulary & interactive exercises and places mentioned in the episode

Continue practicing with this story on my website:

https://govoriwithnastya.com/tverskaya

👋 About me

I'm Nastya, a Russian teacher from Moscow. I create these stories for people learning Russian who are curious about Moscow's history and everyday life.

https://govoriwithnastya.com/

🎵 Sound recording credit

“Dark Ghost Warrior Voice 05 - Haunted Presence Ambience” by TommasoMotteran.

Source: https://freesound.org/s/861839/

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

🎧 Russian level: B1+ (Intermediate+)

The episode is in slow, clear Russian, with explanations of useful words and expressions along the way.

🏙️ What was it like to shop at a Moscow market over a hundred years ago?

In this episode of Moscow in Stories, I talk about Sukharevka, one of the most famous markets in old Moscow, using stories from Vladimir Gilyarovsky's Moscow and Muscovites.

📖 In this episode:

• Booksellers who lent books to poor students.
• A fake painting that became ten times more expensive after Ilya Repin signed it.
• A detective searching for a cannon stolen from the Kremlin.
• A collector who accidentally bought his own stolen vase.

📚 Transcript, vocabulary & interactive exercises

Continue practicing with this story on my website:
https://govoriwithnastya.com/sukharevka

👋About me

I'm Nastya, a Russian teacher from Moscow. I create these stories for people learning Russian who are curious about Moscow's history and everyday life.

🌐 https://govoriwithnastya.com/

🎵 Sound recording credit

Sound recording: city bells market 08 200520_0177.wav by klankbeeld.
Source: https://freesound.org/s/612810/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/