Status Updates From Russian basis and essential...

Amusingly, some of the parallel Russian translation appears to be closer to the original than the "Basic English" version of Gulliver: "blade for taking the hair off my face" is simply бритва, for example, and "pocket-cloth" is платок (familar to me in the form of Aramis's famous handkerchief! Z)

Given that Gulliver had to swim for his life and was washed up half-drowned, how come his snuff and his written papers took no harm from the prolonged immersion? And why didn't the Lilliputians search him for dangerous weapons during the eight hours they had him drugged and unconscious? :-p

"I frequently let my legs down but without touching earth; but when I was almost at the end of my powers and unable any longer to put up a fight, I saw that I was in not very deep water, and by thus time the wind had gone down" - not my idea of "Basic English"! I *think* the Russian translation genuinely is less old-fashioned...

I can't judge as to the Russian version, but the English half of these dialogues (a loose idiomatic translation) is charmingly 'period' in flavour:
"Let's go in now and then we'll see everyone come in."
"Here are our seats. I say, what comfort!"
"The place is certainly full."
"Don't let's be late. (INTERVAL BELL) Oh, they're all coming back. It's no good going now."

A sudden odd crop of Americanisms: "going down town" and "in the Fall"...

Odd (presumably archaic, but I can't work out the rules) use of въ...

More graphic phrases: Я не могу лезть иоп стол в моей возрасте! (I cannot crawl under the table at my age)
Я поднялся с пола с большим трудом (I got up from the floor with great difficulty - presumably the sequel to the above :D)

Внезапно нотёл лопнул, машина сломалась, поезд остановился, п он был принуждён пойти пешком по полям - the sample sentence in which a ordinary railway trip suddenly turns into disaster when the [steam] engine's boiler explodes is verging on the "postillion struck by lightning" variety!

Participles. I remember those (but haven't reached then again in the textbook[s], so couldn't construct them myself! )

I don't understand the point of this list of infinitives. They're not particularly common verbs (to cheer up, to colonise, to dive) and they're not particularly good examples of the conjugations they are listed under, being often irregular in parts... but the irregularities aren't listed.
But then if you wanted a list of irregular verbs to be studied, there are far more useful/common ones to be had...

I still haven't covered the oblique cases of adjectives - but they had apparently appeared by p38 of the accompanying 1930s textbook!
"Frankly, this stage of learning the language must inevitably be a little tedious"... I do like an honest text :-D