Golden Calf

Author

Mikhail Lermontov

In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's...

Author	Anna Akhmatova
ISBN	0939010275

Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen "Best Books of the Year," Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive edition, and has sold over 13,000 copies, making it one of the most successful poetry titles...

Author	Anatoli Rybakov
ISBN	0099633302

To the two people among my goodreads friends, who are interested in Russian history and culture - this novel (first in a trilogy) covers the era of Stalin's reign of terror and is both riveting and historically accurate. It is mostly about a group of young people caught up in the workings of Stalin's totalitarian...

Author	Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN	0099490668

Although less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an engrossing book, though completely different in tone. It is set in Kiev during the Russian revolution and tells the story of the Turbin family and the war's effect on the middle-classes (not...

Author	Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN	0802150594

Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution.

A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland...

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	Nikolai Gogol
ISBN	0192828800

Hailed universally as Russia's finest comic writer, and by many as its greatest writer of prose, Nikolai creates a unique Ukranian world, from the darkest Gothic to folkloric levity. Here, this extraordinary countryside is revealed in all its variety in his first two collections of short stories....

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	Veniamin Kaverin
ISBN	1410103285

Two Captains is the most renowned novel of the Russian writer Veniamin Kaverin. The plot spans from 1912 to 1944. For more than half a century the book has been loved by children and adults alike. The novel has undergone more than 100 printings, including translations into other languages. Based on its...

Author

Alexander Volkov

Сказочная повесть Александра Волкова, написанная в 1939 и являющаяся переработкой сказки Фрэнка Баума «Удивительный Волшебник из Страны Оз» (The Wonderful...

Author	Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
ISBN	1410102351

Stories contained in this volume: Moloch, Olesya, Night Duty, The White Poodle, I Was An Actor, The Gambrinus Emerald, The Garnet Bracelet. Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was Russian novelist and short-story writer. He was an army officer for several years before he resigned to pursue a...

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 Nosov
ISBN	5955504605

Целую страну, населенную забавными коротышками, создал Н.Носов. Обитатели этой страны беззаботны, жизнерадостны, наивны, изобретательны, любопытны...

Author	Sergei Dovlatov
ISBN	0897333535

A very different read than my usual book. This is a collection of newspaper articles written in Estonia during the late 1970s, each followed by a longer description, often satirical (intended? or otherwise) which provides the true background of the articles. Through this the reader sees a sample of...

Author	Arkady Strugatsky
ISBN	5968000236

"Понедельник начинается в субботу. Сказка для научных работников младшего возраста" - под таким заголовком в 1965 году вышла книга, которой зачитывались...