Russian Classics

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The Symmetry Teacher by Andrei Bitov
Page Count: 288Year: 1987
The plot revolves around the search for and analysis of a manuscript about a certain Symmetry Teacher, who may be the protagonist, the author, or even the reader themselves. The essence of the story is a multilayered game with reality and literature: the main character, a philologist, fruitlessly searches for ideal symmetry in the world […]
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Alexander Pushkin
Page Count: 60Year: 1831
Tsar Saltan overheard the conversation of three sisters and married the youngest, who promised to bear him a heroic son. The two older sisters (the Cook and the Weaver), out of jealousy and in collusion with the matchmaker Babarikha, slandered the Tsarina while Saltan was away at war. They forged the Tsar’s decree, and the […]
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The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
Page Count: 77Year: 1900
Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozorov are three cultured, intelligent sisters living in a dreary provincial garrison town after the death of their military father. For the past four years, their collective desire, their life-sustaining dream, has been to return to Moscow—the city of their youth and a symbol of fulfillment. Their monotonous existence is briefly […]
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The Village of Stepanchikovo by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 224Year: 1859
The story is narrated by the young Sergey Aleksandrovich, who is summoned to the remote country estate of his wealthy, kind-hearted, but pathologically meek uncle, Colonel Yegor Rostanev. Upon arrival, Sergey finds the entire household under the despotic rule of a middle-aged charlatan and parasite: Foma Fomich Opiskin. Foma, a former hanger-on who has ingratiated […]
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Two Captains by Veniamin Kaverin
Page Count: 397Year: 1944
This is the epic story of Sanya Grigoryev, a resourceful boy from a provincial town who grows up mute, but one day finds a packet of letters that become his destiny. The letters contain the last testament of the brave Arctic explorer, Captain Tatarinov, whose expedition was lost without a trace. From that moment on, […]
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Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
Page Count: 62Year: 1897
Voynitsky (“Uncle Vanya”) and his niece, Sonya, have for years diligently managed their rural estate to support Sonya’s celebrated but shallow father, Professor Serebryakov, and his stunning young second wife, Yelena. The arrival of the self-absorbed Professor and the beautiful, bored Yelena instantly disrupts the quiet routine, inflaming Vanya with hopeless passion and fueling a […]
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Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 218Year: 1859
Marya Alexandrovna Moskalova, an influential local lady, is obsessed with marrying her daughter, Zinaida, to a rich man. Prince K., a very old, wealthy, and infirm aristocrat suffering from senile dementia, arrives in town. Marya Alexandrovna develops a plan: to convince Zinaida to marry the Prince. She pressures her daughter, arguing that the marriage is […]
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Viy by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 41Year: 1835
Three Kyiv seminarians, heading home for the holidays, lose their way and stumble upon a lost farmstead where the old mistress turns out to be a witch. The philosopher Khoma Brut, the most carefree and light-hearted of the three, falls victim to her sorcery: she saddles him and rides him through the night sky. Khoma, […]
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 1024Year: 1869
At the heart of the story is Natasha Rostova, young, full of life, and utterly captivating. Her heart becomes the nucleus of a dramatic triangle, connecting two contrasting personalities: the idealist Pierre Bezukhov and the proud, ambitious Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. From their very first meeting, Pierre is secretly and devotedly in love with Natasha, but […]
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War’s Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich
Page Count: 384Year: 1985
The book opens with the shocking, intimate revelations of hundreds of women who participated in the Great Patriotic War. From a sniper who recounts the difficulty of taking the first shot to a nurse who shares the details of fear, hunger, and filth on the front lines. Alexievich records these monologues to restore the authentic, […]
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Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov
Page Count: 120Year: 1892
The story is set in a dilapidated mental asylum—Ward No. 6—of a provincial Russian hospital, managed by Dr. Andrey Yefimych Ragin. The doctor is an initially well-intentioned, but ultimately apathetic, intellectual who rationalizes his negligence of the hospital’s horrific conditions with philosophical fatalism. Ragin’s quiet indifference is shattered when he begins to converse with one […]
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Page Count: 238Year: 1924
In the glass city of the One State, where the life of every “number” is dictated by the Table of Hours, the engineer D-503 is happy. He is the builder of the spaceship “Integral,” intended to carry “mathematically infallible happiness” to the savage inhabitants of other planets. His world is perfect: there is no worry, […]
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