Девочка на картине

The Girl in the Painting

A2 · Elementary · fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story

An elementary story about being bored in a museum. Yulya is thirteen, on a school trip she did not want, counting the minutes in a room full of brown paintings — until she finds a portrait of a girl her own age who is just as bored, painted a hundred and fifty years ago.

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Characters

Yulya (Юля) — Year Seven
Maria (Мария) — The girl in the portrait
The guide (Экскурсовод) — Museum guide
Katya (Катя) — Yulya's friend

Vocabulary from this story

музей — museum
картина — painting
портрет — portrait
художник — painter
экскурсовод — guide
зал — hall
комната — room
скамейка — bench
гардероб — cloakroom
табличка — label
детали — details
век — century