Russian Classics

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The Garnet Bracelet by Alexander Kuprin
Page Count: 280Year: 1911
The story centers on Princess Vera Sheina, a woman of high society whose passionate love for her husband, Prince Vasily, has long settled into a comfortable, enduring friendship. Her serene life is disturbed on her birthday when she receives a peculiar gift: a garnet bracelet of exceptional beauty. The sender is the anonymous admirer who […]
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The Golovlyov Family by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Page Count: 344Year: 1880 READ FREE
This is a mercilessly written chronicle of the disintegration and demise of a noble family. It stands as one of the most hopeless and bleak books, both within Saltykov-Shchedrin’s bibliography and in the history of Russian literature. It is a novel about degeneration, loneliness, and violence — primarily psychological. Later generations can read the book […]
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The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 140Year: 1880
The story takes place in 16th-century Seville during the Spanish Inquisition. Jesus Christ returns quietly to Earth, where His miracles are instantly recognized by the adoring populace. His presence, however, immediately threatens the established order of the Church. The ninety-year-old Grand Inquisitor, the all-powerful cardinal of the city, orders Christ’s immediate arrest. That night, the […]
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The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 368Year: 1861
Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman sentenced to ten years of penal servitude in a remote Siberian ostrog for killing his wife, finds himself abruptly cut off from his former life and thrust into the “House of the Dead”—a teeming, cruel world of hardened criminals, ex-officers, and political exiles. Forced to wear leg-irons and endure the […]
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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 465Year: 1869
Enter Prince Myshkin, a young epileptic returning to St. Petersburg, whose childlike innocence and radical compassion are immediately mistaken for idiocy. His purity sets the stage for a devastating love triangle involving two women who represent Russia’s warring soul: the haunting, self-destructive beauty, Nastasya Filippovna, whom Myshkin loves with a selfless, spiritual pity, and the […]
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The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 111Year: 1835
The corrupt officials of a small, provincial Russian town are thrown into utter panic: their Mayor, Anton Antonovich, has just received word that a high-ranking, incognito Inspector General is secretly arriving from St. Petersburg to audit their region. Knowing their incompetence, graft, and neglect—from the stinking hospital to the broken roads—will be instantly exposed, they […]
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The Insulted and Humiliated by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 450Year: 1861
Natasha Ikhmenyeva, the daughter of the disgraced landowner Nikolay Ikhmenyev, rejects her long-time friend and fiancé, the writer Vanya, to run away with Alyosha Valkovsky. Alyosha is the charming but utterly spineless son of the wealthy, manipulative Prince Valkovsky. This scandalous elopement causes Natasha to be disowned and cursed by her proud father, Nikolay Ikhmenyev, […]
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The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 400Year: 1894
This key religious and philosophical treatise by Leo Tolstoy, banned in Russia, became a manifesto of nonviolent resistance and the foundation of his teaching on Christian anarchism. Tolstoy rejects the traditional Church and the State, considering them direct enemies of true Christianity. He asserts that Christ’s teaching is a pure moral guide, the core of […]
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The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 105Year: 1889
During a train journey, passengers engaged in a debate about marriage and love are interrupted by a gentleman named Pozdnyshev, who shares a shocking story: he murdered his wife. His narrative is a frantic monologue about the degradation of a marriage founded on sexual attraction rather than spiritual unity. Pozdnyshev details his “dissolute” youth, the […]
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The Landlady by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 80Year: 1847
The story follows Vasily Mikhailovich Ordynov, a young, highly reclusive scholar whose entire life is confined to the world of books and abstract study. When he is forced to move apartments, his sheltered existence is shattered. Wandering the streets, Ordynov becomes intensely, obsessively fascinated with a beautiful young woman, Katerina, and the ominous old man […]
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The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 176Year: 1990
A writer becomes obsessed with the “contamination” of language by useless letters and meanings, leading him to found a secret society of linguistic purifiers. The club’s goal is the radical “murder” of superfluous characters and ideas for the sake of purifying thought. However, this obsession leads to madness and a dangerous simplification of thought itself. […]
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The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov
Page Count: 836Year: 1959
The news of the war’s outbreak caught “the Sintsov family by surprise, just like many other families.” Ivan and his wife Masha had just arrived in Crimea for a vacation when the fascist invaders’ attack became known. The situation was extremely serious—”their one-year-old daughter was left there, in Grodno, near the war.” Masha could not […]
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