Russian & Soviet

For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us....

Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....

The story told in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad.

War and Peace is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first...

Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater....

From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace: a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time....

Step into the rich history and culture of Mother Russia with this classic collection by esteemed writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. With his penchant for gripping prose and powerful themes that unmasked the social struggles and intellectual clashes of his day....

Еще один вариант прочтения бессмертного романа Федора Михайловича...

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history....

Роман "Анна Каренина" был написан Л. Н. Толстым в 1877 году, а год спустя...

A work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family....

The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events.

Братья Карамазовы - последний роман Ф. М. Достоевского, который автор...

Мы адресуем этот сборник не только всем ценителям русской классической...

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound philosophical and psychological novel that explores deep questions of faith, doubt, free will, and...

Вам предлагается аудиопрочтение знаменитой повести великого русского...

Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov's works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities...

BBC radio productions of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, plus selected shorter fiction and bonus programmes exploring his life and work....

A new collection of work from Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, Poet in the New World includes previously untranslated poems written during his time in Washington, D.C., and his years in Europe before and after

Everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn't love you back (Turgenev's A Month in the Country)....

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St. Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret....

The Cloak (sometimes translated as Overcoat) is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had...

This is Leo Tolstoy's integration of the four biblical gospels into a single account of the life of Jesus which was inspired by his meticulous study of the original Greek versions of the Bible....

Anna Karénine est une jeune femme mariée à Alexis Karénine et mère d'un jeune garçon. Elle se rend à Moscou chez son frère Stiva Oblonski...

Der Autor erzählt die Leidensgeschichte des Studenten Rodion Raskolnikow, der zum Mörder wird und letztlich daran zerbricht...

Moskau zu Beginn der 1930er-Jahre: Der Teufel sucht die Stadt heim und stürzt ihre Bewohner mit tatkräftiger Unterstützung seiner Zauberlehrlinge in ein Chaos aus Hypnose, Spuk und Zerstörung. Es ist die verdiente Strafe für Heuchelei, Korruption und Mittelmaß. Doch zwei Gerechte genießen Satans Sympathie: der im Irrenhaus sitzende Schriftsteller, genannt "Meister", und Margarita, dessen einstige Geliebte. Bulgakows Gesellschaftssatire aus der Sowjetzeit ist ein faustisch-fantastisches Meisterwerk.

This collection brings together stories and reflections in which Leo Tolstoy turns inward. Stripped of grandeur, these works offer something more intimate: the inner noise of conscience, the weight of faith, the silence before death. A servant's silence, a horse's memory, a dying man's doubt—these are not performances. They are questions, waiting quietly for whoever dares to ask the same. Tolstoy isn't offering answers. He's writing toward something deeper. And the questions haven't aged a day.

Действие эпического романа «Строговы» происходит в Сибири начала XX века. Через призму жизни крестьянской семьи Строговых автор показывает все ключевые исторические события того времени. Русско-японскую войну, Первую мировую войну, Октябрьскую революцию 1917 года. Главный герой романа – Матвей Строгов проходит путь от крестьянина-пасечника до командира партизанского отряда, с честью выдерживая все жизненные неурядицы и невзгоды. Роман «Строговы» был удостоен Государственной премии СССР, а снятый по его мотивам фильм побил все рекорды зрительской популярности.

Роман «Город Эн» описывает десять лет из жизни мальчика, живущего в одном из провинциальных городов на западе России. Главный герой рассказывает о своих близких, об учебе в гимназии, смерти отца, первой влюблённости, поисках друзей и важнейших исторических событиях, которые так же оказывают влияние на процесс его взросления.

Ловкий охотник и отважный воин из племени пикуни – Одинокий Бизон, совершил недопустимую ошибку и получил справедливое наказание. Но гордость не позволила ему признать свою вину, и Одинокий Бизон сворачивает вигвам и вместе с женой и детьми покидает родное племя.