My Favorite Russian Classics

Explore the best Russian classics with this curated list of must-read books. Discover timeless literature from Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and more for your next favorite read.

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Eugene Onegin

 

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War and Peace

by graf Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the …
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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

A drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" portrays the story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. …
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The Idiot

 

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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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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

by Nikolai Gogol

When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, …
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Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

In the grand tradition of the epic novel, Boris Pasternak’s masterpiece brings to life the drama and immensity of the Russian Revolution through the story …
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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

The famous novel about a European intellectual in America, whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him.
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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Originally published: Dana Point, Calif.: Ardis, 1995.
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Heart of a Dog

by Mikhail Bulgakov

A Moscow man is put in charge of purging the city of cats.
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