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
Недоросль by Denis FonvizinПоэзия by Николай Михайлович ЯзыковVzgliad na moiu zhizn by Ivan Ivanovich DmitrievГ. Р. Державин. Стихотворения by Gavrila DerzhavinАргивяне by Wilhelm Küchelbecker
Pushkin Reading List
29 books — 1 voter
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

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
Приключения Незнайки by Nikolay NosovДядя Фёдор, пёс и кот by Eduard UspenskyThe Tale of Tsar Saltan by Alexander PushkinKonik Garbusek by Pyotr YershovRuslan and Ludmila by Alexander Pushkin
Best Russian Children Books
107 books — 42 voters



Leo Tolstoy
at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed... In the old days, you see, if a man - a Frenchman, for instance- wished to get an education, he would have set to work to study the classics, the theologian ...more
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Mikhail Bulgakov
For some a prologue, for some an epilogue.
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