This collection of studies is designed to be used in conjunction with ''The Russian School of Piano Playing'', as a back-up resource. It will be invaluable to both students and teachers as it contains a great variety of studies from both classical and modern Western music, as well as Russian studies, draw from the standard Russian repertoire. This book will be of great assistance to the study of the ''Russian School of Piano Playing''. Every type of study that the student might require is contained within this one volume. The collection is in two parts, each being graded in order of difficulty and covering a wide variety of essential techniques. The first part provides material for the early stages of learning, the second part caters for intermediate players.