Russian Authors
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
