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
Кадавры
О чём молчит ласточка
Assassin of Reality (Vita Nostra, #2)
Граф Аверин (Колдун Российской империи, #1)
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
Trenul spre Samarkand
A Train to Moscow
War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Наследница Черного дракона (Нежеланная невеста, #1)
Wound
KGBT+
Lana's War
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

Alexander Pushkin
It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abruptly - like me with my Onegin. ...more
Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

Leo Tolstoy
Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such ages back that we are often unwilling to recognise the gulf that separates them from us.
Leo Tolstoy

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