Russian Classics
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What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 240Year: 1898This famous treatise is the result of fifteen years of Tolstoy’s reflections, in which he completely revised the criteria for evaluating art, rejecting the concepts of Beauty and Pleasure as false and elitist. Tolstoy asserts: true art is not pleasure, but a means of communication and union among men. Its main sign is infection: if […]
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What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Page Count: 449Year: 1863This novel is not merely a love story; it is a radical blueprint for a new society, written from a prison cell. It follows the life of the intelligent and determined Vera Pavlovna, who escapes the tyranny of her oppressive family through a fictional marriage to the medical student Dmitry Lopukhov. Vera goes on to […]
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White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 134Year: 1848A solitary, nameless young man—a Dreamer—wanders the luminous, sleepless streets of St. Petersburg during the magical summer phenomenon of the White Nights, his existence confined entirely to his own elaborate fantasies. His lonely routine is shattered when he meets Nastenka, a young woman crying by the canal, recently saved from harassment, who is waiting desperately […]
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Who Is to Blame? by Alexander Herzen
Page Count: 290Year: 1846The novel opens with a scathing satire of the Russian provincial gentry, focusing on the household of the coarse and petty landowner Negrov. Into this environment comes Dmitry Krutsifersky, a poor but idealistic son of a doctor hired as a tutor. Dmitry’s initial happiness arrives when he marries Lyubov, Negrov’s educated and passionate illegitimate daughter. […]
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The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub
Page Count: 352Year: 1907READ FREEThis unsettling masterpiece of Russian symbolism centers on Ardalion Peredonov, a paranoid and cruel provincial high school teacher whose descent into madness mirrors the moral decay of his entire community. Obsessed with securing a promotion and a comfortable marriage, Peredonov finds his trivial ambitions twisted by suspicion, filth, and escalating fear. He begins to believe […]
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An Honest Thief by Dostoevsky
Page Count: 129Year: 1848Dostoevsky relentlessly explores the complexity of human nature, exposing its vulnerability to vices, social pressure, and existential despair. In each story, deep compassion for the fallen and the downtrodden is evident, alongside a sharp critique of hypocrisy and the moral decay of society. The author forces us to peer into the abyss of despair that […]
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Drama on the Hunt (The Shooting Party) by Anton Chekhov
Page Count: 402Year: 1884READ FREEThis isn’t just a detective story where the killer is known from the first page; it’s a deep psychological drama where every character wears a mask, and the truth is as elusive as a beast in the thicket. You’ll witness a tangled love triangle where jealousy, desire, and deceit intertwine with a fatal shot. Young, […]
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Petersburg Tales by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 192Year: 1842READ FREEThe collection of stories by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol describes a multifaceted and ever-changing St. Petersburg. Having personally walked in the shoes of a petty official and become immersed in “state service,” Nikolai Vasilyevich depicts with amazing accuracy the morals of the “significant persons” of that time. And as if reflecting the soul of St. Petersburg, […]
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Princess Dzhavakha by Lidiya Charskaya
Page Count: 306Year: 1903READ FREEThis book is about a brave and proud Georgian girl. Little Nina tragically loses her beloved mother early in life and is left in the care of her father, a Georgian prince and battle-hardened general. Nina is an excellent horsewoman and a daring adventurer, yet she possesses a tender, sensitive, and compassionate soul. Having grown […]
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The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov
Page Count: 574Year: 1928READ FREE“The Twelve Chairs” (1927) is a novel written almost a century ago, yet it feels as if it were just yesterday. Everyone quotes it, even those who haven’t read a single page or watched any of its numerous adaptations. Ostap Bender, the Great Schemer, has become a household name, with monuments erected to him across […]
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The Amphibian Man by Alexander Belyaev
Page Count: 360Year: 1927READ FREEMeet Ichthyander, an enigmatic young man who has lived underwater since childhood, thanks to a mad scientist’s incredible experiment. With shark gills replacing his lungs, he’s destined to exist between two worlds: human and aquatic. But can Ichthyander truly find his place when he faces not only marine predators but also human greed, prejudice, and, […]
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The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev
Page Count: 138Year: 1904READ FREEThis is a surreal parable about the insane horrors of war, so powerful that, returning in the crippled souls of men from the fronts, they continue to live, gradually materializing and tormenting, torturing, driving mad other, as yet untouched, victims. “The Red Laugh” is at first glance a strange, incomprehensible story. The horrors of war […]
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