Russian & Soviet

Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....

For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us....

Step into the rich history and culture of Mother Russia with this classic collection by esteemed writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. With his penchant for gripping prose and powerful themes that unmasked the social struggles and intellectual clashes of his day....

Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater....

The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment....

В романе "Идиот" Достоевский стремился, по его словам, "изобразить вполне...

In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition....

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia....

Еще один вариант прочтения бессмертного романа Федора Михайловича...

From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace: a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time....

Повесть Записки сумасшедшего - одно из самых неординарных произведений, вышедших из-под пера классика русской литературы Николая Васильевича Гоголя...

From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation - certain to become the definitive version - of the first great prison memoir....

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound philosophical and psychological novel that explores deep questions of faith, doubt, free will, and...

The true but unlikely stories of lives devoted - absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully! - to the Russian classics....

Роман "Анна Каренина" был написан Л. Н. Толстым в 1877 году, а год спустя...

Круг основных идей романа "Преступление и наказание" писатель вынашивал...

We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921. The novel was first published as an English...

Yuri Bezmenov (1939-January 5, 1993) was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former KGB informant who defected to Canada in 1971. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India....

Memoirs of a Madman or Diary of a Madman is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Along with The Overcoat and The Nose, Diary of a Madman is considered...

Записки из подполья — произведение классика русской литературы и одного из лучших романистов мирового уровня Ф. М. Достоевского (1821–1881). Повесть...

Братья Карамазовы - последний роман Ф. М. Достоевского, который автор...

Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling, Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral.

Kholstomer is a work by Leo Tolstoy that has been referred to as "one of the most striking stories in Russian literature". It was started in 1863 and left...

Anna Karénine est une jeune femme mariée à Alexis Karénine et mère d'un jeune garçon. Elle se rend à Moscou chez son frère Stiva Oblonski...

A work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family....

Повесть Вечер накануне Ивана Купала - удивительное произведение, автором которого является великолепный драматург Николай Васильевич Гоголь. Бедный Петрусь, полюбив дочь богатого хозяина, готов ради любви на все: вечером накануне Ивана Купала он вместе с бродягой Басаврюком отправляется на поиски зарытого в лесу клада... Повесть Вечер накануне Ивана Купала входит в цикл Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки, впервые была издана в 1830 году.

Утро делового человека - блистательная комедия Николая Васильевича Гоголя, классика русской художественной литературы. Создавалась в 1832—1836 годах как часть пьесы "Владимир третьей степени", оставшейся неоконченной. Автор высмеивает безграничное высокомерие деловых и полезных обществу чиновников, которые всячески угодничают друг перед другом.

The best collection of Russian short stories includes: Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree. Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Kholstomer, the Story of a Horse, Alyosha the Pot, A Letter to a Hindu, A Confession, God Sees the Truth, but Waits, A Russian Christmas Party. Anton Chekhov: Kashtanka, Gusev, The Darling, The Lady with the Dog, A Slander, The Horse-Stealers, The Petchenyeg, A Dead Body, A Happy Ending, The Looking-GlassOld Age, Darkness, The Beggar, In Trouble, Frost, Minds in Ferment, Gone Astray.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final novel, considered to be the culmination of his life's work, "The Brothers Karamazov" is the story of the murder of Father Karamazov, whose four sons are all to some degree complicit in the crime. Within the context of this crime story evolves a brilliant philosophical debate of religion, reason, liberty, and the nature of guilt in society. Considered by Sigmund Freud as "The most magnificent novel ever written", the excellent translation of Constance Garnett is presented here in this edition of "The Brothers Karamazov".

Im russischen Zarenreich aufgewachsen, erlebt der Moskauer Arzt Juri Andrejewitsch Shiwago den Ausbruch der Oktoberrevolution. Alle Hoffnungen auf eine glänzende Karriere werden mit der neuen Ordnung zerstört und er beschließt, mit seiner Familie auf ein Landgut reicher Verwandter zu ziehen. Das Familienidyll gerät ins Wanken, als Shiwago Lara wiedertrifft, die er in einem Lazarett kennenlernte. Sein halbes Leben lang arbeitete Boris Pasternak an diesem Roman, der in der Sowjetunion nicht publiziert werden durfte, und erhielt dafür 1958 den Literaturnobelpreis.