Russian Classics
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Mother by Maxim Gorky
Page Count: 390Year: 1906The story centers on Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, a factory worker’s widow living in a grim industrial settlement. Her life has been one of unconscious acceptance, spent in fear of her brutal, alcoholic husband. After his death, her greatest fear is that her son, Pavel, will follow the same destructive path. However, Pavel transforms, abandoning alcohol […]
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Mumu by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 60Year: 1852The story is set in Moscow, in the house of a wealthy, capricious, and domineering Mistress (barinya). Among her numerous household servants, the figure of the yard keeper, Gerasim, stands out—a man who is deaf and mute from birth, of Herculean build, yet profoundly lonely. Gerasim initially develops an attachment to the laundress Tatyana, but […]
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My Past and Thoughts by Alexander Herzen
Page Count: 750Year: 1868This monumental work is far more than an autobiography; it is a panoramic political and personal testament that spans the heart of the 19th century. Alexander Herzen begins in the shadow of Tsarist autocracy, recalling his privileged yet solitary childhood and his fervent youthful vow with Nikolai Ogarev to fight for freedom. His defiance leads […]
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Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 200Year: 1849The story follows the painful childhood and youth of Netochka Nezvanova, a young girl whose life is defined by three distinct stages of suffering and dependence. The first stage details Netochka’s life with her stepfather, Efimov, a failed violinist. Efimov, a ruin of a man who believes he is an unappreciated musical genius, exploits Netochka’s […]
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Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 160Year: 1864Notes from Underground is a philosophical novella told as the rambling, contradictory confession of an unnamed narrator, a retired civil servant living in voluntary isolation in a miserable room on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. This narrator, often called the “Underground Man,” is a bitter, hyper-conscious, and self-loathing individual. The first part, titled “Underground,” is […]
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Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Page Count: 540Year: 1859READ FREEGoncharov had the nickname “Prince of Sloth.” Oblomov’s childhood memories are, in fact, Goncharov’s own. This book is about how apathy can ruin your life. It is very useful for those who are in this state. The author both condemns and does not condemn the hero, Oblomov. But still, the main idea of the book […]
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On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 220Year: 1860Elena is courted by two distinct young men: Pavel Shubin, a spirited but self-indulgent sculptor, and Andrei Bersenyev, a kind, serious-minded student and aspiring philosopher. Both lack the forceful passion and ability to act that Elena secretly seeks. The dynamic is broken by the arrival of Dmitri Insarov, a friend of Bersenyev and a dedicated […]
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Peter the First by Aleksey Tolstoy
Page Count: 776Year: 1934The story begins in the archaic, stifling world of 17th-century Muscovy, ruled by Tsarevna Sophia, where young Peter is little more than a boisterous boy more interested in soldiers and ships than statecraft. The narrative follows his fiery ascent to power, portraying not just the Tsar’s ruthless reforms—the Great Embassy, the Streltsy Uprisings, the foundations […]
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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Page Count: 208Year: 1957Meet Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, a Russian émigré, professor of Russian literature at the quaint American Waindell College, and one of the most endearing and hapless figures in 20th-century fiction. Pnin is a true intellectual of the old school—erudite, meticulous, and agonizingly vulnerable—but hopelessly clumsy when navigating the chaos of American life, from mastering the English […]
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Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 190Year: 1846The story documents the poignant and ultimately tragic relationship between Makar Devushkin, an aging, poor government clerk who earns his living by tedious copying, and Varvara Dobroselova (Varenka), a young, impoverished orphan earning her keep by sewing. Though they are separated only by a courtyard, their correspondence becomes their entire world, a vital means of […]
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Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
Page Count: 78Year: 1963The poem cycle begins with the arrest of her son and the start of the mother’s seven years of waiting outside the Leningrad prisons. Akhmatova records the conversations and suffering of other women in the lines. The poem references the execution of the poet’s husband in 1921. The climax of the cycle is the poet’s […]
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Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 496Year: 1899Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov, a wealthy nobleman, sits on a jury that convicts a prostitute named Katerina Maslova of murder. He is instantly horrified when he recognizes her as the innocent young servant girl he seduced and abandoned years earlier—an act that started her descent into poverty and crime. Overwhelmed by moral guilt and a spiritual […]
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