Russian Novels

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Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Page Count: 288Year: 1831
Exhausted by the shallow social scene of St. Petersburg, the indifferent and self-absorbed dandy Eugene Onegin inherits a country estate. There, he befriends the young, passionate poet Vladimir Lensky. Soon, Onegin meets the two sisters of the neighboring Larina family: the lighthearted Olga, who is engaged to Lensky, and the thoughtful, dreamy Tatyana, who boldly […]
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Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 100Year: 1911
For many years, Sergius leads a life of the strictest asceticism, battling the temptations of the flesh, pride, and vanity that he strives to suppress. He manages to avoid a fall when he is visited in his cell by the beautiful society lady Makovkina, who attempts to seduce him on a dare. To escape sin, […]
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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 336Year: 1862
The radical student Yevgeny Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist who rejects all tradition, authority, and aesthetic principles, returns with his friend Arkady Kirsanov to the Kirsanov family estate in provincial Russia. Bazarov’s brutal rationalism and embrace of science immediately provoke a bitter ideological conflict with Arkady’s aristocratic uncle, Pavel Petrovich, representing the liberal but outdated older […]
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Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 160Year: 1912
The 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: 1925
One 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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Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Page Count: 896Year: 1960
The 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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Live and Remember by Valentin Rasputin
Page Count: 216Year: 1974
The story takes place during the final year of the Great Patriotic War. The plot centers on the secret drama of Andrei Guskov, who deserted the front and lives secretly as an outcast. His wife, Nastena, is the only person who holds his secret. She is forced to lead an unbearable double life: by day, […]
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Page Count: 317Year: 1955
A 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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Mother by Maxim Gorky
Page Count: 390Year: 1906
The 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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Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 200Year: 1849
The 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: 1864
Notes 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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Novel with Cocaine by M. Agueev
Page Count: 224Year: 1934
The student Vadim Maslennikov begins his confession by describing first love and his acquaintance with women. However, the central event is his discovery of cocaine. Vadim quickly becomes addicted, which completely changes his character, making him cynical and obsessed. He loses the capacity for genuine feeling, replacing it with the painful euphoria of the drug. […]
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