Russian Authors

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Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

Boris Pasternak

Doctor Zhivago

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls

Pushkin

Eugene Onegin

Turgenev

Fathers and Sons

The Queen of Spades

In this short story by Pushkin, the engineer Hermann learns the secret three cards that the Count of St. Germain told a Russian countess, but loses everything gambling and goes insane.

Uncle Vanya

In this other Chekhov play, Ivan Voynitsky attempts to commit suicide with morphine after failing to shoot Professor Serebryakov.

The Cherry Orchard

In this play by Chekhov, the servant Firs dies in an abandoned house after Lopakhin buys Madame Ranevskaya's estate, which includes a fruit-filled forest area.

Crime and Punishment

In this Dostoyevsky novel, the handicapped woman Lizaveta and her sister, the pawnbroker Alyona, are killed by Raskolnikov.

The Overcoat

In this Gogol story, the corpse of Akaky Akakievich haunts the streets of St. Petersburg after he dies of a fever shortly after the title object is stolen from him.

Anna Karenina

Kitty Shcherbatsky appears in this Leo Tolstoy novel, whose protagonist commits suicide by throwing herself in front of a train

Dostoevsky

Notes from Underground

Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Doctor Zhivago

Pasternak won the Nobel Prize shortly after the aforementioned publication of this novel. Its title character, a physician and poet, dies of a heart attack shortly before his great love Lara dies in the gulag.

The Bronze Horseman

Pushkin wrote this narrative poem where Yevgeny curses a statue of Peter the Great after being unable to find his girlfriend Parasha, causing the statue to come to life and chase Yevgeny through St. Petersburg.

Alexander Pushkin

The Bronze Horseman

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

Anton Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard

Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard

Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago

Gogol

The Nose

Nikolai Gogol

The Overcoat (short story)

The Brothers Karamazov

The Parable of the Grand Inquisitor appears in this novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Ivan, Alyosha, and Dmitri are the three title siblings of this novel.

Pushkin

The Queen of Spades

Notes from Underground

This Dostoyevsky novel begins with the unnamed narrator declaring "I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man." He also points out that he is "unattractive" and has a "diseased" liver.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

This Leo Tolstoy novella is about a judge who suffers a fatal fall while putting up curtains. In his final days, the title judge takes comfort in resting his legs on the shoulders of his servant, Gerasim.

Doctor Zhivago

novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after its protagonist, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Civil War.

The Nose

This story by Gogol tells of Yakovlevich who finds the title object in his bread and Major Kovalyev who is the actual owner of that object. The story ends with Kovalyev reunited with the title object.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

This was Solzhenitsyn's first book. In it, a Navy captain is punished for receiving a Christmas present from a British army captain, one of the many cruelties the gulag system inflicts on "zeks."

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

Chekhov's Gun

an insignificant object that later turns out to be important


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