Russian Classics
Welcome to the definitive collection of Russian classic literature. This section features the timeless masterpieces by iconic Russian authors who shaped world history and culture, including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and many more.
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Professor Dowell’s Head by Alexander Belyaev
Page Count: 208Year: 1925READ FREEThe story takes place in Paris, where a young doctor, Marie Laurent, takes a job at Professor Kern’s clinic. She discovers that Kern is conducting experiments on organ reanimation and that he has kept the head of his teacher, Professor Dowell, alive. Marie begins to communicate with Dowell’s head and learns about his fate and […]
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A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 100Year: 1880A Confession is a short, autobiographical work detailing Leo Tolstoy’s profound midlife spiritual crisis and his search for the ultimate meaning of life. Written between 1879 and 1882, the work marks a radical turning point in the author’s philosophical and religious views. Tolstoy, a celebrated author, describes the despair he felt despite having achieved worldwide […]
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A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
Page Count: 161Year: 1925This cycle of semi-autobiographical stories throws a young, recently graduated doctor headfirst into the brutal reality of rural Russia in the midst of revolution and civil war. Armed with theoretical knowledge from university and a complete lack of practical experience, the nervous twenty-something physician arrives at a remote village hospital. He is the only doctor […]
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A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Page Count: 214Year: 1840The story follows the destructive path of the young officer Grigory Pechorin as he travels through the Caucasus. The narrative unfolds non-chronologically, revealing the devastating consequences of his boredom and ego on others. First, in the mountains, he orchestrates the kidnapping of the Circassian princess Bela, using local bandit Kazbich to get her, only to […]
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A Little Hero by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 52Year: 1857The protagonist is an unnamed eleven-year-old boy sent to spend his summer holidays at a bustling country estate near Moscow, filled with carefree, aristocratic guests. Though initially tormented and teased by the older ladies for his shyness and juvenile idealism, the boy finds himself experiencing the first profound stirrings of emotion and attraction. He develops […]
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A Story about a Real Man by Boris Polevoi
Page Count: 344Year: 1946Pilot Alexei Meresyev is shot down in an air battle and severely wounds his legs. Miraculously surviving, he begins his 18-day subhuman journey: wounded and starving, he crawls hundreds of kilometers through the forest, driven by one goal alone—to return to his own unit and fly again. This is an epic struggle against pain, frostbite, […]
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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
Page Count: 624Year: 1969The novel is presented as the extensive, richly detailed memoir of Van Veen, who chronicles his lifelong, passionate, and forbidden love for his sister, Ada. The story is set on an alternate planet called Antiterra in the 19th century, where Russia, America, and France have somehow merged into one geopolitical space. Van and Ada first […]
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And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
Page Count: 576Year: 1928Set on the turbulent banks of the Don River, this epic follows Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack whose life is torn apart by forbidden love and ideological chaos. Handsome, proud, and fiercely independent, Grigory is trapped between his passionate, scandal-ridden affair with the married Aksinya, his dutiful marriage to Natalya, and the brutal political demands […]
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 848Year: 1877Married Anna Karenina is obsessed with Alexei Vronsky. Her forbidden feelings for the Count, despite the condemnation of society, moral standards, and his conscience, are tormenting her. This is a story about love, which can be both a source of happiness and a cause of tragedy. Browse the table of contents, check the quotes, read […]
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Asya by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 80Year: 1858While traveling on the Rhine in Germany, the Russian gentleman N.N. meets two fellow Russians: Gagin, a pleasant but mediocre artist, and his intriguing half-sister, Asya (Anna). Asya is a charming, yet emotionally volatile seventeen-year-old girl whose sharp mood swings and eccentric behavior immediately captivate N.N. N.N. soon learns the reason for Asya’s complex nature: […]
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Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 272Year: 1989The protagonist writes his autobiography after his physical death. In this unique philosophical state, the “corpse” observes life from the outside — outside the body, outside passions and desires. This chilling process of “writing one’s own death” becomes a cold report on the absurdity of his former existence and the universe’s ultimate indifference to his […]
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 400Year: 1857Tolstoy’s semi-autobiographical trilogy is an intimate, “microscopic” study of the internal life and moral development of the young nobleman Nikolenka Irtenev. The narrative traces the protagonist’s painful and joyous path from innocent childhood to aspiring young adulthood. Act One: Childhood The idyllic life of ten-year-old Nikolenka Irtenev on the family estate. He experiences his first […]
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