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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 848Year: 1877Married Anna Karenina is obsessed with Alexei Vronsky. Her forbidden feelings for the Count, despite the condemnation of society, moral standards, and his conscience, are tormenting her. This is a story about love, which can be both a source of happiness and a cause of tragedy. Browse the table of contents, check the quotes, read […]
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Another Life by Yury Trifonov
Page Count: 148Year: 1975Following the sudden death of her husband, the scientist Sergey, the historian Olga begins her own investigation into his “other life,” attempting to understand his secrets, fears, and the reasons for his deep alienation. She reads his diaries, reconstructs his conflicts at work and his personal dramas, realizing that she lived with him for years […]
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Aquarium: The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy by Viktor Suvorov
Page Count: 289Year: 1985This shocking autobiographical account plunges the reader into the darkest and most secretive corner of the Soviet military machine: the GRU, the Chief Intelligence Directorate. Viktor Suvorov, a former officer, describes his journey in vivid and sharp detail: from an idealistic Komsomol member to a trained intelligence officer expected to be ready to kill abroad. […]
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Astrophobia by Sasha Sokolov
Page Count: 198Year: 1985The collection immediately throws the reader into a world of philosophical fear and linguistic paradoxes. It is not a traditional set of stories, but a fragmented attempt by the author to explore man’s place in the world through the terror of infinity (Astrophobia), the role of memory, and the power of words. The texts are […]
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Asya by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 80Year: 1858While traveling on the Rhine in Germany, the Russian gentleman N.N. meets two fellow Russians: Gagin, a pleasant but mediocre artist, and his intriguing half-sister, Asya (Anna). Asya is a charming, yet emotionally volatile seventeen-year-old girl whose sharp mood swings and eccentric behavior immediately captivate N.N. N.N. soon learns the reason for Asya’s complex nature: […]
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Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 272Year: 1989The protagonist writes his autobiography after his physical death. In this unique philosophical state, the “corpse” observes life from the outside — outside the body, outside passions and desires. This chilling process of “writing one’s own death” becomes a cold report on the absurdity of his former existence and the universe’s ultimate indifference to his […]
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Between Dog and Wolf by Sasha Sokolov
Page Count: 296Year: 1980The action is a verbal labyrinth where the old miller Ilya Petrovich and his pupil, the poet Yakov, live out their days in a remote village with no clear location. The ailing Yakov wages a constant battle with language itself, attempting to fix life in words while his body and the world around him dissolve […]
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 400Year: 1857Tolstoy’s semi-autobiographical trilogy is an intimate, “microscopic” study of the internal life and moral development of the young nobleman Nikolenka Irtenev. The narrative traces the protagonist’s painful and joyous path from innocent childhood to aspiring young adulthood. Act One: Childhood The idyllic life of ten-year-old Nikolenka Irtenev on the family estate. He experiences his first […]
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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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Danilov, The Violist by Vladimir Orlov
Page Count: 450Year: 1980The hero of the novel, the modest Moscow violist Vladimir Danilov, is secretly a half-demon, the son of an earthly woman and a being from an otherworldly, violet civilization. He lives a double life, trying to reconcile his devilish destiny with his passion for music and his love for the mortal woman Klavdia. He is […]
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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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