Russian Classics
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Page Count: 448Year: 1967Imagine 1930s Moscow — a city constrained by bureaucracy, shortages, and state-enforced atheism — is suddenly visited by Satan himself, in the guise of Professor Woland, accompanied by his infernal retinue, including the absurdly dressed Koroviev and the massive, talking cat Behemoth. Woland’s visit is a devilish inspection and a session of black magic that […]
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The Meek One by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 65Year: 1876The novella is framed as the distraught, stream-of-consciousness monologue of a Pawnbroker, whose wife’s body lies on a table in the next room following her suicide. He is frantically attempting to reconstruct their relationship and rationalize his own role in the tragedy. The Pawnbroker, a deeply proud and bitter man who was forced to leave […]
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The Mysterious Portrait by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 80Year: 1842A young and destitute artist, Andrei Chartkov, buys a mysterious portrait of an old moneylender in a shop. The moneylender’s eyes possess a terrifying, almost lifelike intensity. Chartkov soon discovers a hidden cache of gold in the portrait’s frame. Yielding to temptation, he abandons his true calling and begins painting fashionable, soulless portraits on commission, […]
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The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 90Year: 1832At the center of the plot is the love of the blacksmith and icon painter Vakula for the most beautiful girl in the village, Oksana, the daughter of the wealthy Cossack Chub. The proud and headstrong Oksana mocks the enamored Vakula and sets an impossible condition: she will marry him only if he brings her […]
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The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 58Year: 1842The protagonist is Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, a humble, invisible titular counsellor in St. Petersburg who finds his sole purpose in life through the mindless work of copying documents. His miserable existence is defined by his threadbare, despised overcoat, which offers little protection from the brutal Russian cold. When his tailor declares the old coat beyond […]
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The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
Page Count: 90Year: 1834Hermann, a young Russian army engineer of German background, is a reserved and ambitious man who obsesses over money but never risks his own, instead watching his comrades gamble high stakes at card parties. His life changes when he hears a story about an aging, mysterious Countess Anna Fedotovna, who long ago learned a supernatural […]
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The Return of Munchausen by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 168Year: 1990The aging and immortal Baron Munchausen returns to a world that has mechanized imagination and rationalized fantasy. He struggles to prove to the new society that his incredible, impossible memories are real. The Baron’s eternal life turns into a tragic quest for meaning and belief in the miraculous, because in a world with no room […]
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The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Page Count: 113Year: 1895The glamorous actress Irina Arkadina arrives for the summer, bringing with her her celebrated lover, the successful novelist Boris Trigorin. This intrusion shatters the fragile world of her sensitive, aspiring playwright son, Konstantin Treplev, whose own artistic debut ends in humiliating failure thanks to his mother’s cruel mockery. The crisis point is Nina, a young […]
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The Sevastopol Sketches by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 190Year: 1856This cycle consists of three essays written by Tolstoy as a participant in the defense of Sevastopol. The work is one of the first examples of “trench truth” in Russian literature, showing war without romanticization. “Sevastopol in December” takes the reader directly to the hospital, where the unpretentious heroism and calmness of simple Russian soldiers […]
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The Squabble by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 120Year: 1835A satirical tale about how two inseparable neighbors and landowners, Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich, become enemies over an absolute trifle. The heroes’ friendship collapses when Ivan Ivanovich attempts to trade his neighbor for an old rifle, and Ivan Nikiforovich refuses and calls him a “goose” (gusak). This single word triggers an absurd war. Trivial […]
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The Steel Flea by Nikolai Leskov
Page Count: 80Year: 1881The story is a satirical folk tale that begins when Emperor Alexander I and his Cossack aide Platov visit England. The English craftsmen, wishing to impress the Tsar, present a marvelous, minute steel flea (a clockwork trinket) that can dance. After Alexander’s death, the next Tsar, Nicholas I, challenges his own countrymen to outperform this […]
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The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky
Page Count: 120Year: 1859The patriarchal merchant community is held captive by the ruthless and suffocating morality of its wealthy elders, chief among them the tyrannical matriarch Marfa Kabanova (Kabanikha). Her devotion to outdated traditions crushes any impulse toward personal freedom among the household. Into this repressive domestic prison steps Katerina, a young, passionate woman married to Kabanikha’s weak-willed […]
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