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Childhood, Youth and Exile by Alexander Herzen
Page Count: 300Year: 1855This monumental memoir begins in the opulent, yet stifling, world of the Russian aristocracy, recounting the privileged but solitary childhood of Alexander Herzen, the illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner. Born during the invasion of 1812, Herzen’s earliest memories are steeped in the high drama of war and the domestic tyranny of his eccentric father’s […]
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 608Year: 1866This is a novel about a single crime: a double murder committed by a poor student for money. It is difficult to find a simpler plot, yet the intellectual and spiritual upheaval the novel causes is indelible. The question the protagonist set out to solve – ‘Am I a trembling creature or have I the […]
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Days and Nights by Konstantin Simonov
Page Count: 421Year: 1944The main character of the novel is the battalion commander Captain Saburov. His nearly full division is transferred to Stalingrad in early September 1942 and sent into street fighting. The entire novel spans two and a half months during which Saburov fights for three Stalingrad houses. In the basement of one of the held buildings, […]
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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 464Year: 1842The resourceful con man Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov arrives in a provincial Russian town with a bizarre business proposition for the local landowners: he intends to purchase their “dead souls”—deceased serfs still registered on census lists as living. Chichikov’s ultimate goal is to mortgage these paper assets to a government bank for a massive fortune. His […]
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Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Page Count: 240Year: 1996Viktor Zolotaryov is a lonely, aspiring writer in Kyiv whose only companion is Misha, a melancholic King Penguin adopted from the city’s impoverished zoo. Desperate for money, Viktor accepts a job writing “obelisks”—obituaries for a local newspaper’s archive, reserved for influential people who are still very much alive. The work pays unexpectedly well and provides […]
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Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 692Year: 1872A quiet provincial town is thrown into utter chaos by the arrival of two figures: the enigmatic and magnetically destructive Nikolai Stavrogin, a man of immense charm and chilling moral emptiness, and the manipulative, cunning revolutionary Pyotr Verkhovensky. Pyotr gathers a clandestine circle of radicals, a five-person cell he intends to use to incite social […]
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Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 100Year: 1835Poprishchin is tormented by his humble social standing and the humiliations he suffers at work, which fuels his secret, inflated ambition. He is hopelessly in love with the beautiful Sophie—the daughter of his department director, who represents an unattainable symbol of power. When he learns that Sophie is about to marry a wealthy chamberlain, his […]
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Doctor Krupov by Alexander Herzen
Page Count: 100Year: 1847Dr. Krupov, a cynical but sharply observant town physician, spends his days tending to the various ailments—both physical and psychosomatic—of the seemingly ordinary inhabitants of a Russian provincial town. What the doctor discovers is a shocking and unsettling pattern: every single one of his patients, from the local landowner to the humble civil servant, suffers […]
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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Page Count: 512Year: 1957Zhivago marries the gentle Tonya, but his destiny is tragically entwined with the passionate, elusive Larisa (“Lara”) Antipova, a woman whose life is scarred by an older predator and whose husband transforms into the fearsome Red commander, Strelnikov. As the world fragments into chaos, the doctor struggles to practice his art and preserve his poetic […]
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Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin
Page Count: 140Year: 1841The novel begins with the friendship between two neighboring landowners: the wealthy and authoritarian tyrant Kirila Petrovich Troyekurov and the poor but proud Andrey Gavrilovich Dubrovsky. Their friendship suddenly collapses over a trifle: Troyekurov’s kennel keeper insults Dubrovsky. The offended Andrey Gavrilovich leaves. Troyekurov, seeking revenge for the audacity, bribes the court and confiscates Dubrovsky’s […]
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Duck Hunting by Aleksandr Vampilov
Page Count: 162Year: 1970The engineer Viktor Zilov receives a funeral wreath bearing his own name. He takes it as a cruel joke and organizes a grand farewell banquet where he pushes himself to the limit. Through a series of flashbacks, his cynical life is revealed: he betrayed his wife Galya, cheated on her with Irina, toyed with the […]
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Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Page Count: 288Year: 1831Exhausted 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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