Дом с зеркалами

The House with the Mirrors

B1 · Intermediate · fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story

An intermediate ghost story with no ghost in it. A furniture restorer spends three days alone in a derelict merchant's house, listing its contents before it is sold: mahogany and walnut, sixteen dining chairs, and seven mirrors she has been told to leave under their sheets. She is a professional, and she needs the condition of the glass for her inventory.

Read Дом с зеркалами in Russian

Characters

Anya (Аня) — Furniture restorer
Pal Palych (Пал Палыч) — The caretaker
The chairs (Шестнадцать стульев) — A matching set
The seventh mirror (Седьмое зеркало) — Staircase landing

Vocabulary from this story

дом — house
сторожка — lodge
коридор — corridor
столовая — dining room
лестница — staircase
окно — window
пол — floor
паркет — parquet
крюк — hook
лампа — lamp
угол — corner
мебель — furniture