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Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 160Year: 1912The narrative centers on the Avar warrior Hadji Murad, the celebrated deputy (naib) of Imam Shamil. After a conflict with Shamil, and forced to save his family—who have been taken hostage by the Imam—Hadji Murad makes a dangerous decision: he defects to the Russian side. Hadji Murad seeks refuge first in a Chechen village and […]
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Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Page Count: 123Year: 1925One cold Moscow winter in 1924, the stray dog Sharik, who philosophically reflects on the cruelty of the proletariat and the saving grace of the intelligentsia, is picked up by the famous surgeon Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazhensky. The Professor, a world-renowned scientist, conducts an ambitious and secret experiment: he transplants the pituitary gland and testicles […]
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Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 210Year: 1859The central figure is Fyodor Ivanovich Lavretsky, a landowner returning to his provincial family estate—the titular “nest”—after his marriage to the shallow, socially ambitious Varvara Pavlovna has completely collapsed due to her infidelity abroad. Disillusioned with Europe and high society, Lavretsky seeks solace in the quiet simplicity of his ancestral home. Upon settling in the […]
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How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 50Year: 1886This parable is a tragic examination of ruinous human greed. The peasant Pahom is obsessed with one idea: if he only had enough land, he wouldn’t fear the Devil himself. The Devil, overhearing this boast, immediately sets out to tempt Pahom. Dissatisfied with his modest holdings, Pahom constantly pursues new, larger, and more fertile territories. […]
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Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 100Year: 1832Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka is an officer in an infantry regiment, a man who is meticulously tidy, indecisive, and extremely shy. His life in the service was simple and orderly: he loved cleanliness, routine, always monitored his buttons, and was never sociable. After the death of his mother, Ivan Fyodorovich inherited a small farmstead called Vytrebenki […]
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
Page Count: 90Year: 1865Katerina Izmaylova, the young wife of the wealthy merchant Zinovy, is suffocated by a loveless marriage and the constant surveillance of her tyrannical father-in-law, Boris. Her suppressed desire explodes when she begins a torrid affair with Sergey, a handsome and ambitious clerk. This illicit relationship quickly transforms into a cycle of escalating violence as Katerina […]
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Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Page Count: 896Year: 1960The immense, multi-layered story centers on the Shaposhnikov family, scattered across the Soviet Union during the most terrifying period of the Great Patriotic War. While the tank corps of one sister’s husband prepares for the counter-offensive at Stalingrad, her former husband, a commissar, faces KGB arrest in Moscow, and her Jewish mother, Sofya Levinton, walks […]
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Page Count: 317Year: 1955A European professor develops a criminal obsession with his landlady’s 12-year-old daughter. To gain access to the girl, he marries her mother. When the mother dies unexpectedly, Humbert legally takes custody, launching a prolonged, twisted journey of psychological manipulation and abuse across the American highways. Their forced companionship, masked as a road trip, isolates Lolita […]
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Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 256Year: 1989The hero discovers he is not suffering from forgetfulness, but from a temporal paradox: he cannot forget events that… have not yet happened. He experiences the future as if it were an accomplished past. This temporal disorder renders him incapable of living in the present or changing the pre-written future he already “remembers,” condemning him […]
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Mirgorod and Village Evenings Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 295Year: 1832Step into the vibrant, mysterious, and chaotic world of 19th-century rural Ukraine, as filtered through the eyes of the jovial, storytelling beekeeper, Rudy Panko. This collection of eight tales whisks the reader from the boisterous marketplace of Sorochyntsi Fair to the quiet, mystical nights of St. John’s Eve and the magical Christmas Eve. Here, reality […]
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Moscow and Beyond: 1986 to 1989 by Andrei Sakharov
Page Count: 320Year: 1990This is a chronicle of conscience, struggle, and great historical drama. The book recounts Sakharov’s return from his Gorky exile, his direct moral confrontation with Mikhail Gorbachev, and his uncompromising fight in the new Soviet Parliament for democratic reforms and human rights. Every page is a testament from a great scientist and dissident whose moral […]
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Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev
Page Count: 164Year: 1969The story follows Venichka Erofeev, a highly educated but completely demoralized alcoholic, who has just been fired from his job for drawing consumption charts instead of laying cable. Starting from a Moscow train station, Venichka embarks on a commuter rail journey to Petushki, a provincial town where his beloved “trollop” and child await. The entire […]
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