RUSSIAN - ENGLISH DUAL-LANGUAGE BOOK based on the Masterpiece Russian Classical Novel: "CRIME AND PUNISHMENT" by F.M. Dostoevskiy

The Dual-Language Russian-English Book based on Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's masterpiece novel "Crime and Punishment" does not need a special presentation. It has been translated, read, and discussed numerous times. And yet, Zoia Eliseyeva wants to present the unique piece of the literary art and psychological thought of the famous writer once more. The chapters of the book show the plotting and the commitment of the heinous crime of the double murder. Together with the master's mind you will go through the hectic feverish thoughts of a revolting drop-out university student Rodion Raskolnikov. You will learn also about Dostoevsky's personality as it was reflected by his contemporaries. The book has the discussion of translations and a few cultural notes on the vocabulary. The reader can do simultaneous reading and listening of the exciting Dostoevsky's Russian text: Chapter 6 of the book is read by Zoia on her UTube channel 'zoiacalifornia". Zoia Eliseyeva is a native Russian speaker, educator, living in California for 19 years. She has Master's Degree in Education. She teaches ESL, Russian, and Spanish . Her first publications appeared 17 years ago.

Author: Zoia Eliseyeva
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 01/01/2015
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781505891324

About the Author
Zoia Eliseyeva is a native Russian. She was born in Riga (Latvia) during Soviet Union, although her parents are originally from central Russia. She got a Bachelor's Degree in English and Literature from Latvia State University in 1989, and a Master's Degree in Education (Counseling Option for Community Colleges) from California State University in San Bernardino in 2002. After her Master's Degree Zoia studied Spanish for 9 years in colleges, an at CalState Fullerton. In the summer 2014 Zoia was teaching English and Russian in Oaxaca, Mexico, for 2 months being completely emerged in Spanish-speaking environment of southern Mexico. Now Zoia is teaching Spanish at her community, continuing tutoring the three languages. Zoia is an author of an autobiographical-immigrant book, the chapters of which were being published for a few years in the magazine "Nataly" in St.Petersburg (Russia), a newspaper in Riga (Latvia), and in Russian newspapers in California (West Hollywood) and Colorado, USA, starting from 1996. Zoia's stories are being published in the online Russianwomen.com magazine, Prose.ru, and on other sites. On Amazon.com, in 2010, Zoia republished her first book "The Girl from California", and she has published fourteen more books since then, most of them being dual-language Russian-English world classics or trilingual English-Russian-Spanish, also based on classics. For a number of years Zoia was doing evaluation and translation of Russian/Soviet educational transcripts and diplomas, providing professional language services to American Educational Research Corporation (AERC) and other business and legal organizations in the USA. Having a warm and dynamic personality, being an optimist who walks through life with a smile, a highly experienced and devoted language teacher, Zoia has always been appreciated and highly valued by her students and readers of Russian, English, and Spanish languages in Riga (Latvia), California, USA, and Oaxaca, Mexico. Zoia's last names by marriages in the USA were Burkhart and Sproesser. Since December 2014 Zoia has had back her maiden last name Eliseyeva.


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