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
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Anna Karenina Fix
12 books — 2 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
Мост на Дрине by Ivo AndrićPerverzion by Yuri AndrukhovychIn the Jaws of Life and Other Stories by Dubravka UgrešićHouse of Day, House of Night by Olga TokarczukThe Fortress by Meša Selimović
Writings from an Unbound Europe
65 books — 6 voters

Eugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinA Hero of Our Time by Mikhail LermontovWho Is to Blame? by Alexander HerzenThe Diary Of A Superfluous Man by Ivan TurgenevRudin by Ivan Turgenev
Superfluous Man
12 books — 1 voter
Kleine Vera by Marija ChmelikThe Gray House by Mariam PetrosyanVrouwendecamerone by Julia VoznesenskayaEros is een Rus by Valeria NarbikovaOde aan de voetganger by Anna Akhmatova
Russian Literature and Women
5 books — 2 voters


Mirra Ginsburg
One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by Gogol, Leskov, Bely, Remizov, and, in certain aspects of their work, also by Babel and Bulgakov. It is a tradition, paradoxically, of experimenters and innovators. Perhaps the principal quality that unites them is their approach to reality and its uses in art - the refusal to be bound by literal fact, the interweaving of reality and fantasy, the trans ...more
Mirra Ginsburg, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Have you seen a leaf, a leaf from a tree?" "I have. " "I saw one recently, a yellow one, with some green,decayed on the edges. Blown about by the wind. When I was 10 years old, I'd close my eyes on purpose, in winter, and imagine a leaf – green, bright, with veins, and the sun shining. I'd open my eyes and not believe it, because it was so good, then I'd close them again. " "What's that, an allegory?" "N-no... Why? Not an allegory, simply a leaf, one leaf. A leaf is good. Everything is good." "E ...more
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

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