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
My Dreadful Body
The Disappearing Act
О чём молчит ласточка
Trenul spre Samarkand
Граф Аверин
Vi avverto che vivo per l'ultima volta. Noi e Anna Achmatova
Кадавры
Wound
A Train to Moscow
Assassin of Reality (Vita Nostra, #2)
School of Shards (Vita Nostra, #3)
Transhumanism Inc.
Outpost 2 (Outpost, #2)
A Bad Business
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
Обрученные кровью. Выбор by Наталья ЖильцоваОбрученные кровью. Отбор by Наталья ЖильцоваСветлым магам вход воспрещен by Марина ЕфиминюкИнститут будущих магисс by Анна ПлатуноваЕго снежная ведьма by Екатерина Азарова
Лучший ромфант
150 books — 3 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 — 4 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Notebook by Nicholas SparksThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Nostalgia
27 books — 3 voters

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakTatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons
Historical Fiction: Russia
320 books — 494 voters
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichWar's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana AlexievichSofia Petrovna by Lydia ChukovskayaRequiem by Anna AkhmatovaSelected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva
Best Books by Female Writers in Russian
159 books — 66 voters


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― L. M. Weeks, Bottled Lightning

“ And where there is love, you can live even without happiness. Life is good even in sorrow; it is good to live in the world. However you live. ”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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