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Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3406 times as russian)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,069,369 ratings — published 1866
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2579 times as russian)
avg rating 4.28 — 416,913 ratings — published 1967
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 2544 times as russian)
avg rating 4.10 — 926,134 ratings — published 1878
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 2417 times as russian)
avg rating 4.39 — 383,243 ratings — published 1880
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 1946 times as russian)
avg rating 4.17 — 364,179 ratings — published 1869
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 1808 times as russian)
avg rating 4.21 — 215,618 ratings — published 1869
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 1388 times as russian)
avg rating 4.17 — 225,148 ratings — published 1864
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 1359 times as russian)
avg rating 4.14 — 219,890 ratings — published 1886
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 1348 times as russian)
avg rating 3.98 — 95,812 ratings — published 1842
Fathers and Sons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1279 times as russian)
avg rating 4.00 — 100,701 ratings — published 1862
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1258 times as russian)
avg rating 3.87 — 940,356 ratings — published 1955
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 1157 times as russian)
avg rating 3.98 — 124,670 ratings — published 1962
Eugene Onegin (Paperback)
by (shelved 1048 times as russian)
avg rating 4.10 — 70,523 ratings — published 1831
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 995 times as russian)
avg rating 4.01 — 102,641 ratings — published 1957
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 986 times as russian)
avg rating 4.07 — 331,120 ratings — published 1848
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 955 times as russian)
avg rating 4.30 — 62,220 ratings — published 1872
A Hero of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 930 times as russian)
avg rating 4.11 — 63,987 ratings — published 1840
Heart of a Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 907 times as russian)
avg rating 4.08 — 71,695 ratings — published 1925
The Gambler (Paperback)
by (shelved 711 times as russian)
avg rating 3.91 — 119,106 ratings — published 1866
Oblomov (Paperback)
by (shelved 656 times as russian)
avg rating 4.14 — 42,498 ratings — published 1859
The Overcoat (Paperback)
by (shelved 554 times as russian)
avg rating 4.15 — 50,990 ratings — published 1842
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 549 times as russian)
avg rating 4.12 — 86,238 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 — 78,433 ratings — published 1864
The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 497 times as russian)
avg rating 4.05 — 35,508 ratings — published 1861
The Kreutzer Sonata (Paperback)
by (shelved 492 times as russian)
avg rating 3.86 — 35,337 ratings — published 1889
The Cherry Orchard (Paperback)
by (shelved 482 times as russian)
avg rating 3.69 — 45,146 ratings — published 1903
The Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 447 times as russian)
avg rating 3.67 — 42,819 ratings — published 1846
Red Russia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 428 times as russian)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,264 ratings — published 2017
Resurrection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 417 times as russian)
avg rating 4.17 — 28,173 ratings — published 1899
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 399 times as russian)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,303 ratings — published 1962
First Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as russian)
avg rating 3.77 — 24,690 ratings — published 1860
The Twelve Chairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as russian)
avg rating 4.39 — 24,416 ratings — published 1928
The Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as russian)
avg rating 3.91 — 37,914 ratings — published 1895
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov (Paperback)
by (shelved 370 times as russian)
avg rating 4.37 — 31,957 ratings — published 1903
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 365 times as russian)
avg rating 4.33 — 34,532 ratings — published 1973
The Captain's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 353 times as russian)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,113 ratings — published 1836
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as russian)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,320 ratings — published 1960
Moscow to the End of the Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as russian)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,015 ratings — published 1969
Uncle Vanya (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as russian)
avg rating 3.86 — 31,063 ratings — published 1897
Poor Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 321 times as russian)
avg rating 3.77 — 38,927 ratings — published 1846
Pnin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 321 times as russian)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,204 ratings — published 1957
Cancer Ward (Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as russian)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,531 ratings — published 1967
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as russian)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,239 ratings — published 1835
The White Guard (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as russian)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,092 ratings — published 1924
A Country Doctor's Notebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as russian)
avg rating 4.29 — 24,374 ratings — published 1925
Invitation to a Beheading (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as russian)
avg rating 3.92 — 19,913 ratings — published 1935
The Three Sisters (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as russian)
avg rating 3.71 — 24,225 ratings — published 1900
And Quiet Flows the Don (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as russian)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,195 ratings — published 1928
Petersburg (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as russian)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,694 ratings — published 1913
“Vera's monkey brain was "racing." She wanted someone to talk to her and to get some of her words out, but Daddy and the Seal had now switched to Russian and their conversation was growing more somber, because that's what Russian did to you. Her teacher, the other Vera, had never once smiled, even when reading the ostensibly funny book about a clumsy bear who failed to live by the complex rules of forest society and constantly needed to learn distsiplina (discipline) from his animal peers. "We can all use some more distsiplina," Teacher Vera would say. "It is what our vozhd"--or "leader"--"expects from us." Then she would show them the photograph of a man who looked like a sad but disciplined hamster in a suit in front of a tricolor flag.”
― Vera, or Faith
― Vera, or Faith
“On the Russian revolutionaries:
To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.”
― Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man
To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.”
― Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man













