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The Gollovlev Family
Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov
The Golovlyov Family is regarded as a classic of Russian literature. According to D. S. Mirsky, it is “the gloo
The Precipice
Ivan Gonchorov
According to Goncharov, the idea of the third novel came to him in 1849 when he returned to his native Simbirsk
Stalin and the shaping of the Soviet Union
Alex De Jong
With tenacity, cunning and the ruthless use of terror as a political weapon, Joseph Stalin carved his way to su
Despair
Vladimir Nabokov
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965–thirty years after its original publication– Despair is the wickedly i
Notes for a Journal
Maxim Litvinov
Maxim Maximovich; born Meir Henoch Wallach-Finkelstein; 17 July 1876 – 31 December 1951) was a Russian revolu
Devils
Fyodor Dostoevsky
In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave
The Fall of the Russian Monarchy
Bernard Pares
The dramatic tale of the Russian Revolution unfolds from the perspective of its most famous the Romanovs. Witne
Nicholas I
And Official Nationality in Russia 1825 -1855
Nicholas Riasanovsky
Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825 – 1855 developed from a much more modest interest in Uvarov
A Dog’s Heart
Mikhail Bulgakov
Through surreal, often grotesque humour, Bulgakov gives an ingenious new twist to the Frankenstein parable, in
Seven Hanged
Leonid Andreyev
It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and de
Mother
Maxim Gorky
907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a
Mother Earth
and other Stories
Boris Pilnyak
Mother Earth
Mahogany
Ryazan apples
Tale of the unextinguished moon
Forest dacha
Bridegroom cometh
Three
Selected Stories
Konstantin Paustovsky
This selection was specially compiled by the author shortly before his death for publication in English. The re
Children of the Arbat
Anatoli Rybakov
On a street called the Arbat in Moscows intellectual and artistic center in the 1930s, Sasha, one of a group of
The Vintage Turgenev
Volume 1
Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev has merits denied to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky that give him a secure place among the worlds supreme nov
Heavy Sand
Anatoli Rybakov
Two main parts of Anatoly Rybakov are titled after the writers major novels, Children of the Arbat and Heavy Sa
Three Sketches from a Hunters Album
Ivan Turgenev
Early stories from a master of Russian literature. When first published in book form in 1852, Turgenevs remarka
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Vladimir Voinovich
Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler
Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur K
Safe Conduct
An Early Autobiography and Other Works
Boris Pasternak
The awarding of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature to Boris Pasternak and the subsequent calumny of his fellow
The Decline of Imperial Russia
1855-1914
Hugh Seton-Watson
This book, originally published in 1952, describes and explains the stage of the decline of the Russian Empire
A Month In The Country
A Comedy in Five Acts
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
One week before her thirtieth birthday, the simple life of dutiful wife and mother Natalya is upended when the
Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs
Colin Wilson
A non-fictional historical account of the life of Rasputin.
The Oak and The Calf
A Memoir
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In this autobiographical work, Solzhenitsyn tells of his ten-year war to outwit Russias rulers and get his work
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
Nikolai Gogol
Four works by great 19th-century Russian author – The Nose, a savage satire of Russias incompetent bureaucrats;
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The Doukhobors
Goerge Woodcock
The Doukhobors have, from time to time, attracted attention because of their radical beliefs and their often un
Three Who Made a Revolution
A Biograpical History
Bertram D Wolfe
The lives of three men who made the Russian Revolution possible–Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin–are the focus of t
Resurrection
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoys major novels. It tells the story of a noblemans attempt to redeem t
The Cossacks
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
To read Tolstoys early sketch, The Raid, and his first novel, The Cossacks, is to enter the workshop of a great
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a
Lady With Lapdog and Other Stories
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov may be likened to his contemporaries, the pointilliste painters. Piece by piece, episod
War and Peace
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
In Russias struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical c
Anna Karenin
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Acclaimed by many as the worlds greatest novel, Anna Karenin provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in R
August 1914
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into Eas
The First Circle
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, The First Circle is the story of the prisoner Gleb Ne
For the Good of the Cause
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Like Solzhenitsyns world famous novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle and Cancer Ward
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov
And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don lit. The Quiet Don) is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer M
Lenin: A Biography
Robert Service
Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on 20th-century history cannot be underestimated. This biography mak
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on others, and pious and reverent elsewhere. Nicolai Gogol wa
The Squabble
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogols short story is a sublime work of tragi-comedy. In it, he brilliantly ridicules the Ukrainian pas
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogols stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a
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The Penguin History of Modern Russia
From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century
Robert Service
Russias recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is s
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward t
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series
Oblomov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov
The novel evolved and expanded from an 1849 short story or sketch entitled Oblomovs Dream. The novel focuses on
The Captain’s Daughter and Other Stories
Alexander Pushkin
Pushkins version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also reflects his
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The Possessed Vol 2
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Devils, or The Posessed, is the most controversial of Dostoyevskys masterpieces. A political drama, it has
Selected Stories
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов, IPA: 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904
The Black Arab and Other Stories
Mikhail Prishvin
Mikhail Prishvin was born in the family mansion of Krutschevo in Oryol Governorate (now in Stanovlyansky Distri
Gogol
The Biography of a Divided Soul
Henri Troyat
Gogol was a man of unpredictable temperament and acute perplexity. His physical repulsiveness, illnesses and hy
The Life of a Useless Man
Maxim Gorky
This book was begun by Maxim Gorky in 1907, less than two years after the unsuccessful armed rebellion on Blood
The Burn
Vassily Aksyonov
Aksyonovs magnum opus – and quite something: shaggy, surrealist, knowingly comic, painful, and always utterly c
Dostoevsky: A self Portrait
Jessie Coulson
Interspersed with biographical commentary by the translator, the letters give a more accurate picture of Dostoe
Sanin
A Novel
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev
It evoked almost unprecedented discussions, like those at the time of Turgenevs Fathers and Sons. Some praised
Young Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Based on ten years astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy be
The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov
Although less famous than Mikhail Bulgakovs comic hit, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an en
Mikhail Bulgakov
Critical Lives
J A Curtis
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was one of the most popular Russian writers of the twentieth century, but m
The Fatal Eggs
Mikhail Bulgakov
As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the bril
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst t
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Ivan The Terrible
Robert Payne
Czar Ivan IV (1530-1584), the first Russian ruler to take the title czar, is known as one of the worst tyrants
House of Meetings
Martin Amis
An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis standing as a force unto himself, as The Washington Post has a
Cancer Ward
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
Bazarov’s gifted, impatient, and caustic young man has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady K
One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a clas
Home of the Gentry
Ivan Turgenev
Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. It was enthu
The Idiot
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself en
Four Russian Plays
Four Russian Plays:
The Infant (aka The Minor) by Denis Fonvizin
Chatsky (aka Woe from Wit) by Alexander Grib
Literary Russia: a Guide
Rosamund Bartlett
From the streets of Bulgakovs Moscow to the country estates of Tolstoy, Literary Russia is a breathtaking guide
Nicholas and Alexandra
Robert K Massie
In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extra
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Thirteen Years at the Russian Court
A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of Czar Nicholas II and his Family
Pierre Gilliard
A description of the authors time as a teacher to the children of Tsar Nicholas II.
Peter The First
Alexey Tolstoy
Here, for the first time, in its final form and in a new translation, is the epic Russian novel which has sold