Russian Literature

Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This volume gathers the second series of Anton Chekhov’s dramatic output, presenting every play not included…

The possessed: or, The devils

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The work is a sprawling piece of Russian political fiction that centers on Stepan Trofimovitch, a self‑styled…

Visionen und andere phantastische Erzählungen

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Der Text ist ein fragmentarisch erzähltes, von einer Jagdreise ausgehendes Fantasiedrama, das im ländlichen…

More Russian Picture Tales

Valerian Viliamovich Karrik

More Russian Picture Tales is a collection of folk narratives compiled by Valerian Viliamovich Karrik,…

Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Eugene Oneguine is presented here as the chief poetical work of Russia’s greatest poet, a novel in verse that…

A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections

Isabel Florence Hapgood

This work is a scholarly survey of Russian literature that begins with a sweeping historical overview.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845

Various

The June 1845 issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine presents a scholarly essay on Alexander Pushkin, the…

Best Russian Short Stories

This volume gathers the short stories that first gave Russian prose its distinctive voice.

What Men Live By, and Other Tales

Leo Tolstoy

The work opens with a vivid portrait of Simon, a poor shoemaker whose life is reduced to a daily scramble for…

The diary of a Russian lady: reminiscences of Barbara Doukhovskoy (née princesse Galitzine)

Varvara Dukhovskaia

The diary presents itself as a sprawling memoir of Varvara Dukhovskaia, a Russian noblewoman whose…

Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The volume presents a curated selection of Anton Chekhov’s correspondence, drawn from the…

Fruits of Culture

Leo Tolstoy

Fruits of Culture is a Russian drama translated into English, presenting the opening act of a bustling Moscow…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anastasia: The autobiography of H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia

Eugenia Smith

The work is presented as the memoir of H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna, written by Eugenia…

Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov

Gorky, Maksim; Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich; Kuprin, A. I.

The work is a collective memoir in which Maksim Gorky, Ivan Bunin and Alexander Kuprin recount their…

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy

The volume gathers a selection of Tolstoy’s short fiction, each introduced by a reflective essay on…

Russia

Donald Mackenzie Wallace

Short Stories

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The collection presents a series of Russian short stories translated into English, all drawn from Fyodor…

The Power of Darkness

Leo Tolstoy

The work is a Russian drama rendered into English, attributed to Leo Tolstoy, graf.

The Jew and Other Stories

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The volume gathers a selection of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev’s short fiction, the most famous of which is the…

The house of the dead: or, Prison life in Siberia

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The work is a semi‑autobiographical account of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ten‑year exile in a Siberian penal…

The Queen of Spades, and other stories

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

The volume brings together Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin’s short fiction, a selection that sits alongside his…

The Gambler

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The novel opens with a narrator returning from a two‑week leave to find the General’s household already…

Poor Folk

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The work is a first‑person epistolary novel that opens with a feverish love letter from Makar Dievushkin to…