Asya / First Love

Author	Alexander Pushkin
ISBN	0803720017

Bitterly, the weaver sighed,
And the cook in passion cried,
Full of jealousy and hate
Of their sister's happy fate.
- Alexander Pushkin
Human beings are complex creatures. We can love and hate with the same energy. When we meet a cruel person, we call him “inhuman”. Because...

Author	Aleksandr Griboyedov
ISBN	5080039159

"Горе от ума" - одна из первых русских комедий, разодранных на пословицы и поговорки, которыми до сих пор украшена речь всякого мало-мальски начитанного...

Author	Aleksandr Ostrovsky
ISBN	5170168969

This story will always have a special place in my heart, since it's the first one in a while that made me sympathize with a character to the point of actually crying my eyes out. To be fair, though - it wasn't Ostrovsky's doing. We have Guzeeva's performance in "Cruel Romance" to thank for that. Like so many...

Author	Ivan Bunin
ISBN	0140185526

A much neglected literary figure, Ivan Bunin is one of Russia's major writers and ranks with Tolstoy and Chekhov at the forefront of the Russian Realists. Drawing artistic inspiration from his personal experience, these powerful, evocative stories are set in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century...

Author	Aleksandr Ostrovsky
ISBN	1406938556

KATERINA. Yes, I am well.... It would be better if I were ill, it's worse as it is. A dream keeps creeping into my mind, and I cannot get away from it. I try to think--I can't collect my thoughts, I try to pray--but I can't get free by prayer. My lips murmur the words but my heart is far away; as though the evil one...

Author	Ivan Bunin
ISBN	5352002373

Когда-то давно, ещё в школе, наша заботливая учительница литературы выбрала на свой вкус пару рассказов Бунина, и я точно помню, что они были из сборника...

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	Alexander Grin
ISBN	5170261691

Scarlet Sails, a beloved Russian fairy-tale for adults and children alike, is a story about dreams coming true, no matter how silly or futile or far-reached they may seem.

(Because of this book, I even had a sailor suit when I was little :D)

Who hasn't had wild childhood dreams that we...

Author	Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin
ISBN	1853992925

Nikolaj Karamzin (1766-1826) is vooral bekend als vernieuwer van de Russische literaire taal. Met die vernieuwing legde hij de basis voor de grote Russische klassieke literatuur van de negentiende eeuw. Zijn novelle Arme Liza (1792) is een van de eerste werken die in dit nieuwe proza is geschreven.
Arme...