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St. John’s Eve by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 40Year: 1830The young and poor farmhand Petrus is in love with the beautiful Pidorka, the daughter of the wealthy Cossack Korzh. Korzh is strongly against the marriage due to Petrus’s poverty and intends to marry Pidorka off to someone else. In desperation, Petrus meets the mysterious stranger Basavriuk (whom the villagers believe to be the embodiment […]
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Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
Page Count: 240Year: 1982The novel is a unique fusion: a contemporary narrator rides a train to Leningrad, and his thoughts merge with a reconstruction of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s journey with his young wife, Anna Grigoryevna, to Baden-Baden in 1867. Dostoevsky suffers from epileptic seizures and gambles away his last money at the roulette table, humiliating himself. Anna Grigoryevna, his […]
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Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 240Year: 1842The old colonel Taras Bulba, the embodiment of the Cossack spirit, brings his sons, Ostap and Andriy, from the Kyiv Academy to the Zaporozhian Sich—the military stronghold governed by the harsh laws of war and fraternity. He believes that the only worthy education for a Cossack is battle. The sons quickly prove themselves in combat: […]
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The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 600Year: 1875The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, the ambitious and confused Arkady Dolgoruky, a nineteen-year-old youth, arrives in St. Petersburg to confront the biological father he barely knows, Andrey Versilov. Arkady is torn between a fierce desire to expose his father’s wrongdoings and a desperate need to earn his love and recognition. Arkady carries a […]
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The Bridge Over the Neroch by Leonid Tsypkin
Page Count: 320Year: 1973The novella details the author’s childhood in Minsk before the start of the Great Patriotic War. The main events are the boy’s internal experiences and games: he explores the outskirts, fears “scary” places, and searches for adventures. The plot centers on the child’s attempts to understand the adults—intellectual parents living with the premonition of catastrophe—and […]
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 1056Year: 1880There once were three brothers — Alyosha, Dmitri, and Ivan. They would have lived happily and easily, but their father, a greedy landowner and voluptuary, refused to divide the inheritance honestly. He also tried to seduce Mitya’s beloved—Grushenka—with money. Peaceful negotiations led to nothing. After a terrible scandal, each family member began to devise his […]
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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 Carriage by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 60Year: 1836The action unfolds in a boring provincial town that is brought to life by the arrival of a cavalry regiment and a brigadier general. The main character is a local landowner, retired cavalry officer Pifagor Pifagorovich Chertokutsky, who is known for his boasting. At a dinner hosted by the general, after several glasses of punch, […]
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The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Page Count: 108Year: 1903The debt is due, the auction date is set, and the fate of the Ranevskaya family estate hangs in the balance, symbolised by the vast, beautiful, but utterly useless cherry orchard. Returning from a ruinous life in Paris, the charming, irresponsible aristocrat Lyubov Ranevskaya and her impractical brother Gaev struggle to comprehend their financial doom. […]
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The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War by Viktor Suvorov
Page Count: 350Year: 2008As a continuation of his famous theses, Suvorov provides even more evidence and arguments in favor of the idea that Joseph Stalin was not merely a passive observer, but the chief initiator and instigator of World War II. Using a detailed analysis of Soviet military plans, industrial mobilization, and political maneuvers, the author contends that […]
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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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