Great Russian Fiction

Explore the greatest Russian fiction books, from Tolstoy to Dostoevsky. Discover classic and modern masterpieces that define Russian literature's depth and brilliance.

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Anna Karenin

by graf Leo Tolstoy

A beautiful, passionate Russian woman escapes the restrictions and boredom of her marriage through a love affair with a charming soldier
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Eugene Onegin

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Distinguished by James E. Falen's masterful use of contemporary American English and handling of rhyme and meter, this new translation of Alexander Pushkin's verse novel …
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Dead Souls

by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ

Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai Gogol's enduring comic masterpiece, Dead Souls.
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The Essential Tales of Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov

Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished …
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A Hero of Our Time

by Mikhail Lermontov

In its adventurous happenings–its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues–A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, …
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We

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Before Brave New World... Before 1984...There was... WE In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an …
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly …
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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Revealing Dostoevsky's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, this new translation is meticulously faithful to the original.
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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Originally published: Dana Point, Calif.: Ardis, 1995.
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War and Peace

by graf Leo Tolstoy

Presents the classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families