RUSSIAN - ENGLISH  DUAL-LANGUAGE BOOK of TWO RUSSIAN CLASSICS: CHEKHOV and GONCHAROV: Enjoy Reading Russian Classical Literature with Page-for-Page English Translation (Russian Edition)
Zoia is a native Russian who, before coming to the USA in 1995, for 5 years was teaching English language to small groups of adult students in a European Baltic capital city of a former republic of the Soviet Union. She came to the USA in May of 1995 with a 45-day student's visa to brush up her American English skills. In the house of her host family in Claremont, California, on the 8th day after her arrival, Zoia met a 31-year-old American. They got married in 3 weeks in Las Vegas.    Zoia has a Bachelor's degree in English and Literature from the Soviet Union, and a Master's degree in Educational Counseling from the University of San Bernardino in California, USA. Zoia has been teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) and Russian language in the community colleges and Adult Education of Southern California for the last 13 years.