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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Somewhere in the silence between radio transmissions, the engineer Los decoded a single word: Aelita. Where it came from, what it meant, who had sent it — these questions organized the rest of his life. He built a spacecraft, recruited a Red Army...

Alexei Tolstoy is better known for his grownup novels and stories. Here, however, is a large collection of tales he had recorded and reimagined for the younger audiences. Peasants and kings, domestic and wild animals, magical creatures and objects are mixed together in this delightful cauldron of imagination.

A reminder from Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy that one might take great caution when pursuing hidden treasure.

When a town is left defenseless and is attacked by the enemy, one woman calls on the powers that be to help her protect her people and save her son's life.

A romantic and a dreamer, Alexei Tolstoy never quite came to terms with the conflict between the glorious notion of a revolution to bring equality and justice to the world and its real-life execution, which took place in Russia in 1917. To his great shock and disappointment, Tolstoy discovered equality and brotherhood were not always bestowed on the worthiest of men. "Blue Cities" - the story of a young architect, whose inability to fit in with this strange, altered world eventually leads to a crime - is a literary record of Tolstoy's own thoughts and feelings during that harrowing and confusing time.

When a young man goes from the demands and rigors of the army to a luxurious and serene country living, his mind is bound to wander where it should not. Such is the fate of Alexei Alexeyevich Fedyashev, who becomes so absorbed in his newfound idleness that he falls in love with an old portrait. When the famous conjurer and medium Count Cagliostro accidentally ends up at Fedyashev's escape, the young man begs him to bring his dream to reality. "Be careful what you wish for" is the lesson young Alexei has yet to learn - and how!

An aristocrat, an exile, a contradiction, and a tortured soul, Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy offers a series of strange and unusual meetings at various points in space and in time.

Not all vampires walk the land alone — sometimes they bring their relatives. So discovers a lonely traveler when he carelessly visits a haunted village.

A prominent scholar and narrator of Russian history, Count Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy was also heavily influenced by German Romanticism and old Gothic tales. Here is his own foray into the macabre story genre—a novel as complex and tangled as any palace intrigue.