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Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3456 times as russian)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,093,887 ratings — published 1866
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2614 times as russian)
avg rating 4.28 — 425,491 ratings — published 1967
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 2578 times as russian)
avg rating 4.10 — 937,995 ratings — published 1878
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 2465 times as russian)
avg rating 4.39 — 390,987 ratings — published 1880
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 1970 times as russian)
avg rating 4.17 — 367,875 ratings — published 1869
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 1832 times as russian)
avg rating 4.21 — 219,890 ratings — published 1869
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 1421 times as russian)
avg rating 4.17 — 234,341 ratings — published 1864
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 1398 times as russian)
avg rating 4.14 — 228,611 ratings — published 1886
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 1373 times as russian)
avg rating 3.98 — 97,098 ratings — published 1842
Fathers and Sons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1288 times as russian)
avg rating 4.00 — 102,106 ratings — published 1862
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1268 times as russian)
avg rating 3.87 — 951,728 ratings — published 1955
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 1162 times as russian)
avg rating 3.98 — 125,827 ratings — published 1962
Eugene Onegin (Paperback)
by (shelved 1063 times as russian)
avg rating 4.10 — 71,292 ratings — published 1831
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 1029 times as russian)
avg rating 4.07 — 362,084 ratings — published 1848
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 1005 times as russian)
avg rating 4.01 — 103,494 ratings — published 1957
We (Paperback)
by (shelved 1000 times as russian)
avg rating 3.88 — 113,116 ratings — published 1924
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 977 times as russian)
avg rating 4.31 — 63,761 ratings — published 1872
A Hero of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 935 times as russian)
avg rating 4.11 — 64,627 ratings — published 1840
Heart of a Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 920 times as russian)
avg rating 4.08 — 73,468 ratings — published 1925
The Gambler (Paperback)
by (shelved 723 times as russian)
avg rating 3.91 — 122,852 ratings — published 1866
Oblomov (Paperback)
by (shelved 664 times as russian)
avg rating 4.14 — 43,013 ratings — published 1859
The Overcoat (Paperback)
by (shelved 564 times as russian)
avg rating 4.14 — 52,027 ratings — published 1842
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 547 times as russian)
avg rating 4.12 — 88,464 ratings — published 1972
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 508 times as russian)
avg rating 4.19 — 78,616 ratings — published 1864
The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 505 times as russian)
avg rating 4.05 — 36,429 ratings — published 1861
The Kreutzer Sonata (Paperback)
by (shelved 497 times as russian)
avg rating 3.86 — 35,986 ratings — published 1889
The Cherry Orchard (Paperback)
by (shelved 489 times as russian)
avg rating 3.69 — 45,675 ratings — published 1903
The Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 453 times as russian)
avg rating 3.67 — 44,069 ratings — published 1846
Red Russia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 428 times as russian)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,341 ratings — published 2017
Resurrection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 422 times as russian)
avg rating 4.17 — 28,668 ratings — published 1899
First Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 410 times as russian)
avg rating 3.76 — 25,599 ratings — published 1860
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 403 times as russian)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,987 ratings — published 1962
The Twelve Chairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as russian)
avg rating 4.39 — 24,580 ratings — published 1928
The Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 380 times as russian)
avg rating 3.91 — 38,499 ratings — published 1895
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov (Paperback)
by (shelved 372 times as russian)
avg rating 4.37 — 32,091 ratings — published 1903
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 367 times as russian)
avg rating 4.33 — 34,970 ratings — published 1973
The Captain's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as russian)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,612 ratings — published 1836
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as russian)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,680 ratings — published 1960
Uncle Vanya (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as russian)
avg rating 3.86 — 31,477 ratings — published 1897
Moscow to the End of the Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as russian)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,170 ratings — published 1969
Poor Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as russian)
avg rating 3.77 — 40,024 ratings — published 1846
Pnin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 323 times as russian)
avg rating 3.87 — 29,713 ratings — published 1957
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 321 times as russian)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,640 ratings — published 1835
Cancer Ward (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as russian)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,656 ratings — published 1967
The White Guard (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as russian)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,311 ratings — published 1924
A Country Doctor's Notebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as russian)
avg rating 4.29 — 24,803 ratings — published 1925
The Three Sisters (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as russian)
avg rating 3.71 — 24,508 ratings — published 1900
Invitation to a Beheading (Vintage International)
by (shelved 291 times as russian)
avg rating 3.92 — 20,164 ratings — published 1935
And Quiet Flows the Don (Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as russian)
avg rating 4.12 — 13,313 ratings — published 1928
Petersburg (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as russian)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,746 ratings — published 1913
“I often wonder why iam trying so hard to win the love of a girl i have no desire to seduce and whom i would never marry.”
― A Hero of Our Time
― A Hero of Our Time
“У меня в Москве — купола горят!
У меня в Москве — колокола звонят!
И гробницы в ряд у меня стоят, —
В них царицы спят, и цари.
И не знаешь ты, что зарёй в Кремле
Легче дышится — чем на всей земле!
И не знаешь ты, что зарёй в Кремле
Я молюсь тебе — до зари!
И проходишь ты над своей Невой
О ту пору, как над рекой-Москвой
Я стою с опущенной головой,
И слипаются фонари.
Всей бессонницей я тебя люблю,
Всей бессонницей я тебе внемлю —
О ту пору, как по всему Кремлю
Просыпаются звонари…
Но моя река — да с твоей рекой,
Но моя рука — да с твоей рукой
Не сойдутся, Радость моя, доколь
Не догонит заря — зари.
7 мая 1916
At home in Moscow - where the domes are burning,
at home in Moscow - in the sound of bells,
where I live the tombs - in their rows are standing
and in them Tsaritsas - are asleep and tsars.
And you don't know how - at dawn the Kremlin is
the easiest place to - breathe in the whole wide earth
and you don't know when - dawn reaches the Kremlin
I pray to you until - the next day comes
and I go with you - by your river Neva
even while beside - the Moscow river
I am standing here - with my head lowered
and the line of street lights - sticks fast together.
With my insomnia - I love you wholly.
With my insomnia - I listen for you,
just at the hour throughout - the Kremlin, men
who ring the bells - begin to waken,
Still my river - and your river
still my hand - and your hand
will never join, or not until
one dawn catches up another dawning.”
― Selected Poems
У меня в Москве — колокола звонят!
И гробницы в ряд у меня стоят, —
В них царицы спят, и цари.
И не знаешь ты, что зарёй в Кремле
Легче дышится — чем на всей земле!
И не знаешь ты, что зарёй в Кремле
Я молюсь тебе — до зари!
И проходишь ты над своей Невой
О ту пору, как над рекой-Москвой
Я стою с опущенной головой,
И слипаются фонари.
Всей бессонницей я тебя люблю,
Всей бессонницей я тебе внемлю —
О ту пору, как по всему Кремлю
Просыпаются звонари…
Но моя река — да с твоей рекой,
Но моя рука — да с твоей рукой
Не сойдутся, Радость моя, доколь
Не догонит заря — зари.
7 мая 1916
At home in Moscow - where the domes are burning,
at home in Moscow - in the sound of bells,
where I live the tombs - in their rows are standing
and in them Tsaritsas - are asleep and tsars.
And you don't know how - at dawn the Kremlin is
the easiest place to - breathe in the whole wide earth
and you don't know when - dawn reaches the Kremlin
I pray to you until - the next day comes
and I go with you - by your river Neva
even while beside - the Moscow river
I am standing here - with my head lowered
and the line of street lights - sticks fast together.
With my insomnia - I love you wholly.
With my insomnia - I listen for you,
just at the hour throughout - the Kremlin, men
who ring the bells - begin to waken,
Still my river - and your river
still my hand - and your hand
will never join, or not until
one dawn catches up another dawning.”
― Selected Poems












