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10 best books like The Storm (Aleksandr Ostrovsky): Eugene Onegin, A Hero of Our Time, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod, Горе от ума, Ruslan and Ludmila, Тёмные аллеи, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Олеся, Недоросль

Eugene Onegin
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN0192838997
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself...
A Hero of Our Time
AuthorMikhail 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...
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN0803720017
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...
Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod
AuthorNikolai Gogol
ISBN0192828800
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....
Горе от ума
AuthorAleksandr Griboyedov
ISBN5080039159
"Горе от ума" - одна из первых русских комедий, разодранных на пословицы и поговорки, которыми до сих пор украшена речь всякого мало-мальски начитанного...
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...
Тёмные аллеи
AuthorIvan Bunin
ISBN5352002373
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...
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
AuthorNikolai Leskov
ISBN1843910683
In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia. Chastened and stifled by her marriage of convenience to a man twice her age, the young Katerina Lvovna goes yawning about the house, missing...
Олеся
AuthorAleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
ISBN5847503377
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...
Недоросль
AuthorDenis Fonvizin
ISBN5170427131
"Недоросль" - шедевр русской драматургии, бессмертная комедия, знакомая нам еще со школьных лет. В ней прямо указан корень всех бед России - крепостное...
Mumu
AuthorIvan Turgenev
ISBN1425469272
Mumu (Russian: «Муму») is a short story by Ivan Turgenev, a Russian novelist and story writer, written in 1854.

The story of Gerasim, a deaf and mute serf whose life of poverty is brought into sharp relief by his connection with Mumu, a dog he rescued, brought greater national attention...
Алые паруса
AuthorAlexander Grin
ISBN5170261691
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...
Poor Liza
AuthorNikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin
ISBN1853992925
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...
Tales of Belkin
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN1933633735
Ivan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of manuscripts.... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true stories heard from various people.

First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin contains his first prose works. It is comprised of an introductory...
Boris Godunov
AuthorAlexander Pushkin

You can learn important things about a great writer by reading other great writers who have imitated him. I learned about Twain’s Huckleberry Finn by reading Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Doctorow’s Billy Bathgate, I learned about Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d’Arthur by reading...
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