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10 best books like Peter the First (Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy): Children of the Arbat, The Selected Poems, Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution, The Sebastopol Sketches, Ruslan and Ludmila, Two Captains, Pushkin House, The Duel, Nikolai Gogol, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Children of the Arbat
AuthorAnatoli Rybakov
ISBN0099633302
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...
The Selected Poems
AuthorOsip Mandelstam
ISBN1590170911
Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian poetry but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan...
Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution
AuthorIvan Bunin
ISBN1566635160
“Blessed are those who will visit this world in its fatal moments!” Tyutchev – Cicero
The country is flooded with twilight… Anarchy and chaos are reigning over the nation…
No one believes the newspapers… Hearsay and rumours are all the news…
There is a rumor that the Allies...
The Sebastopol Sketches
AuthorLeo Tolstoy
ISBN0140444688
In the winter of 1854 Tolstoy, then an officer in the Russian army, arranged to be transferred to the besieged town of Sebastopol. Wishing to see at first hand the action of what would become known as the Crimean War, he was spurred on by a fierce patriotism, but also by an equally fierce desire to alert the...
Ruslan and Ludmila
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN5050047730
Had I been 15, I would've certainly fallen in love with or say fantasized about Ruslan and though I'm not, this poetical work has been successful in charming me. Pushkin's dedication, "Queens of my heart, you lovely girls, they're meant for you and only you" was something I felt throughout. He weaves...
Two Captains
AuthorVeniamin Kaverin
ISBN1410103285
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...
Pushkin House
AuthorAndrei Bitov
No other contemporary novel provides such clear insight into the Russian mind and way of life as Andrei Bitov's Pushkin House. First published in the United States in 1987 and highly praised for its inventiveness, Pushkin House is a contemporary literary masterpiece. Though the novel's focus is a...
The Duel
AuthorAleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
ISBN0451500458
Her mourth was almost pressed against his, and her words were like quick, hurried kisses: "You must absolutely go through with the duel tomorrow."

This is an account of the final days of Czarist Russia. An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers. Stranded...
Nikolai Gogol
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN0811201201
The work of Gogol—one of the very greatest of Russia's literary geniuses—has become fairly well known in America but has seldom been properly understood. There have been many bad, but a few good, translations of his work available in English, and critics have often tended to put labels on him, to...
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
AuthorVladimir Voinovich
ISBN0810112434
Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently forgotten by his unit, Chonkin resumes his life as a peasant...
Farewell to Matyora
AuthorValentin Rasputin
ISBN0810113295
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....
Estado y revolución
AuthorVladimir Lenin
If you happen to get the version which has a forward by Richard Pipes, I strongly suggest reading the text of Vladimir Lenin first, maybe Google or Wikipedia some of the historical references, and draw your own conclusion. Richard Pipes is your classical establishment propaganda clerk who's job is...
The Storm
AuthorAleksandr Ostrovsky
ISBN1406938556
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...
Лирика
AuthorMikhail Lermontov
ISBN5699013512
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)

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Чингиз-хан
AuthorVasily Yan
Роман «Чингисхан» В. Г. Яна (Янчевецкого) — первое произведение трилогии «Нашествие монголов». Это яркое историческое произведение, удостоенное Государственной...
Фаворит
AuthorВалентин Пикуль
ISBN5170053606
Роман «Фаворит» – многоплановое произведение, в котором поднят огромный пласт исторической действительности, дано широкое полотно жизни России...
Stories from a Siberian Village
AuthorVasily Shukshin
ISBN0875805728
A cultural phenomenon in his day—an award-winning film director and actor who also wrote novels, plays, and movie scripts—Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974) is renowned for his mastery of the short story. Credited with revitalizing the short story as a genre in Russian literature, he was posthumously...
Virgin Soil Upturned
AuthorMikhail Sholokhov
ISBN0140044736
I initially found this book after reading Atlas Shrugged and 1000+ pages of Ayn Rand's capitalist/individualist hardliner-y, I googled "book that's the opposite of Atlas Shrugged." This book was recommended and it's been sitting on myself unread for about a year and a half.
But recently, due...
Малахитовая шкатулка. Уральские сказы
AuthorPavel Bazhov
ISBN5710756806
В подарочное издание уральских сказов П.Бажова вошли такие известные его произведения, как `Малахитовая шкатулка`, `Каменный цветок`, `Медной горы Хозяйка`...
Таис Афинская
AuthorIvan Efremov
Действие знаменитого исторического романа "Таис Афинская" разворачивается во времена завоевательных походов Александра Македонского. Главная...
Asya / First Love
AuthorIvan Turgenev
ISBN5768402306
First Love is a vivid, sensitive tale of adolescent love follows a 16-year-old boy who falls in love with a beautiful, older woman and experiences a whirlwind of changing emotions, from exaltation and jealousy to despair and devotion. First Love is introduced by David Cecil. A Fire at Sea is lesser known...
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