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
The Disappearing Act
My Dreadful Body
Демон из Пустоши (Колдун Российской империи, #3)
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
Граф Аверин (Колдун Российской империи, #1)
О чём молчит ласточка
A Train to Moscow
Кадавры
Wound
School of Shards (Vita Nostra, #3)
Trenul spre Samarkand
The Orchard
Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein
Outpost 2 (Outpost, #2)
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
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
My Top Ten of Russian Literature
23 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

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Must-read Russian Literature
58 books — 14 voters
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


Andrew D. Kaufman
Remember this, Anya,” Dostoyevsky told his wife on his deathbed, “I always loved you passionately and was never unfaithful to you even in my thoughts.
Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky

Alexander Pushkin
I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening - the time they call, for some accountable reason, 'between dog and wolf'. ...more
Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

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