Asya

Author	Alexander Blok
ISBN	1857544730

Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived through his country's savage wars and radical traumas trying to welcome the new order. Trotsky wrote, `Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that is what broke him.' Pasternak said, `He is as free as the wind.'.

Author	Valentin Rasputin
ISBN	0810113295

A fine example of Village Prose from the post-Stalin era, Farewell to Matyora decries the loss of the Russian peasant culture to the impersonal, soulless march of progress.

It is the final summer of the peasant village of Matyora. A dam will be completed in the fall, destroying the village....

Author	Nikolay A. Nekrasov
ISBN	0404046770

Seven peasants argue over who is most happy and free in Russia. Each has a different idea, and when a little bird gives them a magic tablecloth that serves them a feast each day including a bucket of vodka, they travel about Russia to find out which of the seven is right. The little bird warns them not to use...

Author	Mikhail Lermontov
ISBN	5699013512

Поэт в России - больше, чем поэт.
В ней суждено поэтами рождаться
лишь тем, в ком бродит гордый дух гражданства,
кому уюта нет, покоя нет.
(Е. А. Евтушенко)

Имена...

Author	Ivan Goncharov
ISBN	1434409740

Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was one of the leading members of the great circle of Russian writers who, in the middle of the nineteenth century, gathered around the Sovremmenik (Contemporary) under Nekrasov's editorship-a circle including Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Byelinsky,...

Author	Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
ISBN	5847503377

A worthy example of classics in Russian literature, exploring the themes of love, cowardice, class inequality and the power of superstitions. All these done through a masterly use of a very rich Russian language, further enriched by colloqualism. The character of a strong-spirited witch Olesya...

Author

Alexander Pushkin

سواء ما إذا كنتُ أتمشَّى في شوارع صاخبة،
أو أدخل كنيسةً تعجُّ بالنَّاس،
أو أقضى الليل في صُحبةٍ صاخبة -لا فرق!-
أُطلق العنان لأفكاري.
أقولُ لنفسي:...

Author	Ivan Krylov
ISBN	0883554895

Крылов считал, что басня, как и всякое произведение искусства, должна быть проста и понятна: "А ларчик просто открывался!". Вот такими "ларчиками" с сокровищами...

Author

Nikolai Gogol

Viy, a novella included in Migorod (1835), is in many respects a typical tale of Gogol’s Ukrainian period: based loosely on folk tradition, it incorporates vivid supernatural elements, and, although its jazzy improvisatory prose extends its riffs for too many bars (to continue the jazz metaphor),...

Author	Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
ISBN	0140039856

"As long as there is fresh air to breathe under an apple tree after a shower, we may survive a little longer." (243)I had already read two of the longer pieces in this collection—Matryona's House and An Incident at Krechetovka Station. The other stories in this collection, especially the last, newly...

Author	Denis Fonvizin
ISBN	5170427131

"Недоросль" - шедевр русской драматургии, бессмертная комедия, знакомая нам еще со школьных лет. В ней прямо указан корень всех бед России - крепостное...

Author	Andrei Bely
ISBN	0810117576

The Silver Dove, published four years before Bely's masterpiece Petersburg, is considered the first modern Russian novel. Breaking with Russian realism, and a pioneering Symbolist work, its vividly drawn characters, elemental landscapes, and rich style make it accessible to the Western reader,...

Author	Antony Pogorelsky
ISBN	1894965035

"Black Chicken or Underground Inhabitants" is a book by Anatolii Pogorelskii. This book is probably one of the most sad and touching tales for children in Russian literature, and even though it was written a long time ago in 1829, magical and mysterious plot about a little boy Alex and his favorite...

Author	Mikhail Zoshchenko
ISBN	0253201926

Typical targets of Zoshchenko's satire are the Soviet bureaucracy, crowded conditions in communal apartments, marital infidelities and the rapid turnover in marriage partners, and "the petty-bourgeois mode of life, with its adulterous episodes, lying, and similar nonsense." His devices are...