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Best Russian Literature
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1
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alex Jennings (Narrator) 85 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
2
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator) 66 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
3
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy, David Magarshack (Translator) 66 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
4
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov 52 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
5
War and Peace
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy, Henry Gifford (editor) 49 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
6
The Idiot
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Black Garnett (Translator) 34 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
7
Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead
Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The ...
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Andrew R. MacAndrew (Translator, Afterword) 25 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
8
Stories of Anton Chekhov
Stories of Anton Chekhov
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 24 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
9
Fathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 24 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
11
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak 21 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
12
Lolita
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov, Craig Raine (Afterword) 19 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
13
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
by Alexander Pushkin 18 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
14
Dead Souls
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Robert A. Maguire (Editor) 15 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
15
A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov 14 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
18
The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 11 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
19
We
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
20
Oblomov
Oblomov
by Ivan A. Goncharov 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
22
Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog
by Mikhail Bulgakov 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
23
The Gambler
The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gary Saul Morson (Editor) 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
24
The Complete Short Novels
The Complete Short Novels
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Richard Pevear (Translator) 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
25
Moscow to the End of the Line
Moscow to the End of the Line
by Venedikt Erofeev 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
26
Quiet Flows the Don
Quiet Flows the Don
by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
27
Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
28
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Death of Ivan Ilych
by Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (Translator) 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
29
The Seagull
The Seagull
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
31
My Childhood / دوران کودکی
My Childhood / دوران کودکی
by Maxim Gorky 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
33
The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
34
The Foundation Pit
The Foundation Pit
by Andrei Platonov 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
35
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator, Introduction) 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
36
Pnin
Pnin
by Vladimir Nabokov 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
37
Dreams Of My Russian Summers: A Novel
Dreams Of My Russian Summers: A Novel
by Andreï Makine 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
38
The Dream Life of Sukhanov
The Dream Life of Sukhanov
by Olga Grushin (Goodreads author) 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
39
The Life of Insects
The Life of Insects
by Victor Pelevin 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
39
Wave of Terror
Wave of Terror
by Theodore Odrach, Erma Odrach (Goodreads author) (Translator) 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
41
Pushkin House
Pushkin House
by Andrei Bitov 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
41
The Double
The Double
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Black Garnett (Translator) 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
43
Mother / مادر
Mother / مادر
by Maxim Gorky 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
44
Farewell to Matyora
Farewell to Matyora
by Valentin Rasputin 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
45
Demons
Demons
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator) 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
46
Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
48
Asya/First Love
Asya/First Love
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
50
Petersburg
Petersburg
by Andrei Bely 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
51
The Slynx
The Slynx
by Tatyana Tolstaya, Jamey Gambrell 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
52
Absurdistan
Absurdistan
by Gary Shteyngart 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
53
Resurrection
Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude (Translator) 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
54
Master and Man and Other Stories
Master and Man and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
54
Envy
Envy
by Yury Olesha 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
56
The Essential Tales of Chekhov
The Essential Tales of Chekhov
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Constance Black Garnett (Translator) 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Great Russian Short Stories
Great Russian Short Stories
by Norris Houghton 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
58
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
58
The White Guard
The White Guard
by Mikhail Bulgakov 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
60
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
by Vladimir Mayakovsky 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
62
Diary of a Superfluous Man
Diary of a Superfluous Man
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, David Patterson (Translator) 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
63
Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories
Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories
by Ivan Bunin 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
64
On the Eve
On the Eve
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
65
The Monkey Link: A Pilgrimage Novel
The Monkey Link: A Pilgrimage Novel
by Andrei Bitov 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
65
We
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Natasha Randall (Translator) 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
67
Happy Moscow
Happy Moscow
by Andrei Platonov 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
67
The House on the Embankment
The House on the Embankment
by Yuri Trifonov 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
69
Vita Nostra
Vita Nostra
by Marina Dyachenko, Sergei Dyachenko 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
69
Buddha's Little Finger
Buddha's Little Finger
by Victor Pelevin 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
69
Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator) 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
72
August 1914
August 1914
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
72
The Galosh
The Galosh
by Mikhail Zoshchenko 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
75
Sleepwalker in a Fog
Sleepwalker in a Fog
by Tatyana Tolstaya 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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What Is to Be Done?
What Is to Be Done?
by Nikolai Chernyshevsky 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
76
My Sister - Life
My Sister - Life
by Boris Pasternak 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
76
To Urania: Poems
To Urania: Poems
by Joseph Brodsky 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
79
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Introduction) 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Moscow 2042
Moscow 2042
by Vladimir Voinovich 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
82
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
by Andreï Makine 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
83
The First Circle
The First Circle
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
83
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata
by Leo Tolstoy 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
by Leo Tolstoy 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
85
Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
by Osip Mandelstam 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
87
Decorative Painting of Uzbekistan
Decorative Painting of Uzbekistan
by I. Azimov 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Life, Life: Selected Poems
Life, Life: Selected Poems
by Arseny Tarkovsky 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories
by Alexander Pushkin, Paul Debreczeny (Translator) 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems
by Marina Tsvetaeva 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms
Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of ...
by Daniil Kharms, Matvei Yankelevich (Goodreads author) 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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When the Gods Are Silent
When the Gods Are Silent
by Mikhail Soloviev 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
93
Modern Russian Theology: Bukharev, Soloviev, Bulgakov: Orthodox Theology in a New Key
Modern Russian Theology: Bukharev, Soloviev, Bu...
by Paul Valliere 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Twelve Chairs
The Twelve Chairs
by Ilia Ilf, Evgenii Petrov 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Duck Hunting
Duck Hunting
by Aleksandr Vampilov 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Sandro of Chegem
Sandro of Chegem
by Fazil Iskander, Susan Brownsberger (Translator) 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Watermark
Watermark
by Joseph Brodsky 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
by Vladimir Nabokov 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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A Part of Speech
A Part of Speech
by Joseph Brodsky 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Glory
Glory
by Vladimir Nabokov 1 person voted »
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message 1: by Bettie (last edited Mar 06, 2009 07:28AM) (new)

1108123 Here lies a difficult task, just how can one grade these one above another. I give the one's I have selected all joint first and would wish to re-read them all.


message 2: by Deirdre (new)

2504568 Oops! I clicked a wrong work by mistake, Timon of Athens. I deleted it from my votes but it's still showing on the main list with zero votes. Is there any way of removing it entirely? Help!


message 3: by Bettie (new)

1108123 It will drop to the bottom, if not entirely, within time - no worries.

:O)



message 4: by Brianna (last edited Aug 25, 2009 02:28PM) (new)

590916 Best list(opia) ever. Everything I haven't already read (or re-read) is going on my library list.


message 5: by Pavel (new)

2763302 We need some votes for great russian poets of XX century, they are too underrated


message 6: by David (new)

2566443 Lolita isn't really Russian if it was first written in English...right?

I guess it qualifies because Nabokov was Russian, but I'm still hesitant to call it "Russian".


message 7: by Pavel (last edited 28 days ago, 02:06PM) (new)

2763302 David wrote: "Lolita isn't really Russian if it was first written in English...right?

I guess it qualifies because Nabokov was Russian, but I'm still hesitant to call it "Russian"."


You're right at large, David - originally it was written in English, BUT "Lolita" can be treated as "Russian" not because Nabokov was Russian, but because he, Nabokov "translated" himself the novel into Russian. In the case when a writer "transalates" his own book into his own native language it's safe to say the book was written twice in 2 languages. We read this "translation" here.(by the way "Lolita" was THE ONLY English novel of him which he "translated" into Russian himself. It shall be clear that he couldn't have any hope whatsoever at his time that this book will ever be published in his homeland)



message 8: by Kasia (new)

1504904 Interesting...


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