Russian Literature

Russian literature is the literature in Russian language, written primarily by authors in Russia and its former colonies. Prior to the nineteenth century, the most prominent Russian writers were Gavrila Derzhavin, Denis Fonvizin, Alexander Sumarokov, Vasily Trediakovsky, Nikolay Karamzin and Ivan Krylov.

In the early nineteenth century, Russian literature underwent an astounding golden age and produced such renounced writers as Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky. In the twentieth century Russian literature produced such renounced wri
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
The Disappearing Act
My Dreadful Body
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
School of Shards (Vita Nostra, #3)
A Train to Moscow
Граф Аверин (Колдун Российской империи, #1)
Кадавры
Wound
Sanguina ancora. L'incredibile vita di Fëdor M. Dostojevskij
Демон из Пустоши (Колдун Российской империи, #3)
Trenul spre Samarkand
Ковен озера Шамплейн (Ковен озера Шамплейн, #1)
Outpost 2 (Outpost, #2)
Mother Doll
Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
The Brothers Karamazov
The Master and Margarita
War and Peace
The Idiot
Notes from Underground
The Death of Ivan Ilych
White Nights
Dead Souls
Fathers and Sons
Kleine Vera by Marija ChmelikThe Gray House by Mariam PetrosyanVrouwendecamerone by Julia VoznesenskayaEros is een Rus by Valeria NarbikovaOde aan de voetganger by Anna Akhmatova
Russian Literature and Women
5 books — 2 voters
Orlando by Virginia WoolfThe Waves by Virginia WoolfFoundation Series by Isaac AsimovThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
100 book to enjoy and keep
61 books — 5 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Must-read Russian Literature
58 books — 13 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLolita by Vladimir NabokovDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Authors Born in Russia
6 books — 3 voters


Fyodor Dostoevsky
Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whether he lives or doesn't live, he himself will be God. And that other God will no longer be.' 'So, that other God does exist, in your opinion?' 'He doesn't exist, but he does exist. In the stone there' no pain, but in the fear of the stone there is pain. God is the pain of the fear of death. Whoever ...more
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Andrew D. Kaufman
Remember this, Anya,” Dostoyevsky told his wife on his deathbed, “I always loved you passionately and was never unfaithful to you even in my thoughts.
Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky

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