The book contains a story “Meeting in three hundred years” by Alexei Tolstoy, a famous Russian writer of the XIX century. This unusual story will be of great interest to the lovers of mystic.The heroine recollects her meeting with the ghosts at the ball in the bewitched forest when she was young. This is how her amazing adventure started. And it was over in the most unexpected way.The story has been adapted for C1 level. It is provided with the commentary and exercises to check understanding of the text and to develop the oral speech habits.The most interesting facts from the biography of A.K.Tolstoy are also given in the book.