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
Граф Аверин (Колдун Российской империи, #1)
Simon
Outpost 2 (Outpost, #2)
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
Кадавры
Sanguina ancora. L'incredibile vita di Fëdor M. Dostojevskij
Мара и Морок (Смерть и Тень, #1)
Vladivostok Circus
О чём молчит ласточка
Демон из Пустоши (Колдун Российской империи, #3)
A Train to Moscow
A fost doar ciumă
Руки женщин моей семьи были не для письма
Риф
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
Night Watch by Sergei LukyanenkoMetro 2033 by Dmitry GlukhovskyDe meester en Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovDokter Zjivago by Boris PasternakWhite Shanghai by Elvira Baryakina
Modern Russian novels in translation
92 books — 28 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 UspenskyKonik Garbusek by Pyotr YershovThe Tale of Tsar Saltan by Alexander PushkinRuslan and Ludmila by Alexander Pushkin
Best Russian Children Books
106 books — 42 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
307 books — 477 voters

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


Nikolai Gogol
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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