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 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

Программируем на Python в Minecraft by Roman GurbanovThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWhite Shanghai by Elvira BaryakinaThe Twelve Chairs by Ilya IlfОтцы и дети by Ivan Turgenev
Books in Russian
93 books — 26 voters

Oncle Vania by Anton ChekhovЧехов і Україна by Іван ОвечкоDrama op de jacht by Anton ChekhovTout ce que Tchekhov a voulu dire sur le théâtre by Anton Chekhov15 beroemde verhalen by Anton Chekhov
All about Anton Chekhov
25 books — 3 voters
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


Orlando Figes
There was much that was endearing in this strangely Russian search for absolutes —such as the passion for big ideas that gave the literature of nineteenth-century Russia its unique character and power—and yet the underside of this idealism was a badgering didacticism, a moral dogmatism and intolerance, which in its own way was just as harmful as the censorship it opposed.
Orlando Figes

Alexander Pushkin
It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn. ...more
Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

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