Russian Novels
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The Captain’s Daughter by Alexander Pushkin
Page Count: 304Year: 1836READ FREEThe novella can be viewed from several perspectives: first, it’s a historical novel about Yemelyan Pugachev’s rebellion; second, it’s a psychological drama about coming of age, choice, duty, and mercy; and third, it’s a love story. Pushkin creates a strikingly authentic picture of the era: the distant Orenburg province, the provincial Belogorsk fortress, where the […]
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The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 224Year: 1981The book is structured as 11 compromise stories, each featuring an official newspaper article from Soviet Estonia followed by the true account of the absurd events that led to its writing. The author, a journalist, describes falsifications and absurdities in the newspaper office. One story details a frantic hunt for a suitable infant for an […]
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The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 270Year: 1863The 24-year-old Moscow aristocrat Dmitry Olenin is disillusioned with society, having squandered much of his inheritance. In a desperate attempt to start anew and find true meaning, he leaves the capital and joins the army as a cadet, stationed in a remote Cossack village in the Caucasus. Olenin is instantly captivated by the primal simplicity […]
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The Devil by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 110Year: 1911The Devil is a savage and deeply revealing novella by Leo Tolstoy, focusing on the swift moral collapse of a man consumed by forbidden sexual desire. This is a story of a nobleman’s struggle with the animalistic forces he cannot control. Evgeny Irtenev, an aristocratic young landowner, successfully restores his family’s debt-ridden estate and seems […]
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The Duel by Alexander Kuprin
Page Count: 240Year: 1905Second Lieutenant Romashov is stationed at a miserable military garrison where every day is a cycle of monotony, sadism, and moral decay. A sensitive and idealistic young officer, he cannot reconcile his dreams with the vicious reality of his colleagues and the senseless brutality of army life. His isolation deepens when he falls for Shurochka, […]
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The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 220Year: 1870The dissolute nobleman and aging bachelor Aleksey Velchaninov is staying in St. Petersburg when he is suddenly confronted by Pavel Trusotsky, a man he vaguely recognizes. Trusotsky is the newly widowed husband of Natalya, with whom Velchaninov had an intense affair nine years prior. The encounter plunges Velchaninov into a chilling psychological duel. Trusotsky, seemingly […]
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The Faculty of Useless Knowledge by Yury Dombrovsky
Page Count: 512Year: 1978The arrested art historian Georgy Zybin immediately finds himself at the center of a cruel psychological duel with NKVD investigators in Alma-Ata during the Stalinist purges. He refuses to sign false confessions, using his knowledge of history and art as an unexpected weapon against torture and ideological pressure. The book details this moral and intellectual […]
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The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov
Page Count: 160Year: 1923It is Moscow in the near-future year of 1928. Professor Vladimir Persikov, a brilliant and misanthropic zoologist, accidentally discovers a “Red Ray” that dramatically accelerates the growth and reproductive rate of living organisms. At the same time, a mysterious chicken plague (the “rooster disease”) wipes out virtually all poultry in the Soviet republics. Driven by […]
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The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 192Year: 1866The young, volatile tutor Alexey Ivanovich is trapped in the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg, waiting with a bankrupt Russian general and his peculiar, debt-ridden entourage for the death of a wealthy grandmother, “Grandmama,” whose inheritance will save them all. Alexey is madly, masochistically in love with the General’s proud stepdaughter, Polina, who treats […]
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The Garnet Bracelet by Alexander Kuprin
Page Count: 280Year: 1911The 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: 1880READ FREEThis 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 House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 368Year: 1861Alexander 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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