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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 Her devotion to outdated traditions crushes any impulse toward personal freedom among the household.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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The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 144Year: 1986Upon emigrating, the journalist managed to take with him only one blue Finnish suitcase. Inside were eight completely random objects, each of which serves as the key to a separate, often absurd and tragicomic story from his past life. Among these relics are a decent but worn suit of a deceased bandit; crepe women’s stockings, […]
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The Symmetry Teacher by Andrei Bitov
Page Count: 288Year: 1987The 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: 1831Tsar 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: 1900Olga, 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: 1859The 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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The Zone by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 192Year: 1982The action takes place in a strict-regime labor camp in the Komi ASSR. The author serves as a guard. The book describes the brutal fights between prisoners with sharpened rasp files and the eating of a killed dog due to starvation. The camp administration orders the prisoners to paint a huge portrait of Lenin on […]
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Two Captains by Veniamin Kaverin
Page Count: 397Year: 1944This 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: 1897Voynitsky (“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: 1859Marya 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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