This book aims at giving a systematic exposition of Russian morphology, pronunciation and spelling for foreigners studying Russian without a teacher and for teachers of Russian.
In this book, syntax is touched upon only briefly and in connection with morphology, when the uses of a morphological form are explained.
Particular attention has been paid to the following points of Russian grammar, which, in the opinion of the author, may prove to be difficult for English-speaking students to grasp: the gender of the noun and the agreement in gender of a word with its head-noun, the meanings and uses of the cases with and without prepositions; the aspects of the verb and their use, the classification of verbs into productive-type and non-productive-type verbs, and word-building.
A short chapter at the beginning of the book deals with the main peculiarities of Russian pronunciation and spelling.