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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The Disappearing Act
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
The Disappearing Act
My Dreadful Body
Граф Аверин (Колдун Российской империи, #1)
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
Wound
Trenul spre Samarkand
О чём молчит ласточка
Демон из Пустоши (Колдун Российской империи, #3)
Кадавры
School of Shards (Vita Nostra, #3)
War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Кожа
Lana's War
Ковен озера Шамплейн (Ковен озера Шамплейн, #1)
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

Boris Pasternak
Credo che non ti amerei tanto se in te non ci fosse nulla da lamentare, nulla da rimpiangere. Io non amo la gente perfetta, quelli che non sono mai caduti, non hanno inciampato. La loro è una virtù spenta, di poco valore. A loro non si è svelata la bellezza della vita.
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

Mikhail Bulgakov
For some a prologue, for some an epilogue.
Bulgakov Mikhail Afanas'evich

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