Russian Literature

Russian winters and brooding souls set the stage for profound explorations of morality, faith, and the human condition in these masterful works. Through sprawling family sagas, psychological character studies, and tales of redemption, legendary authors like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov illuminate the depths of consciousness and the eternal questions that haunt us all.

Russian Literature Book Summaries

White Nights Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1848 82 pages

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The Gambler Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 188 pages

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Crime and Punishment Summary

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 671 pages

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War and Peace Summary

by Leo Tolstoy 1869 1392 pages

Historical Fiction

The Brothers Karamazov Summary

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 796 pages

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Oblomov Summary

by Ivan Goncharov 1859 586 pages

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The Master and Margarita Summary

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 372 pages

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Anna Karenina Summary

by Leo Tolstoy 1878 964 pages

Poor Folk Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 167 pages

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The Death of Ivan Ilych Summary

The Death of Ivan Ilych

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 86 pages

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Notes from Underground Summary

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 136 pages

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The Idiot Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 667 pages

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by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1872 733 pages

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The Cherry Orchard Summary

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov 1903 96 pages

by Vladimir Nabokov 1955 368 pages

What Is Art? Summary

by Leo Tolstoy 1897 252 pages

by Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924 256 pages

Science Fiction

The Idiot Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 667 pages

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The Overcoat Summary

by Nikolai Gogol 1842 57 pages

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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky Summary

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 320 pages

Dead Souls Summary

by Nikolai Gogol 1842 464 pages

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Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead Summary

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 233 pages

Notes from Underground Summary

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 136 pages

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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Summary

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 32 pages

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Doctor Zhivago Summary

by Boris Pasternak 1957 592 pages

Historical Fiction

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The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Summary

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 304 pages

Cancer Ward Summary

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 576 pages

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Roadside Picnic Summary

Roadside Picnic

by Arkady Strugatsky 1972 145 pages

Science Fiction

In the First Circle Summary

In the First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 742 pages

The Gulag Archipelago Summary

The Gulag Archipelago

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 660 pages

The First Circle Summary

The First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 580 pages

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Brisbane Summary

by Eugene Vodolazkin 2018 343 pages

Historical Fiction

Two Hundred Years Together Summary

Two Hundred Years Together

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 2002 539 pages

Eugene Onegin Summary

by Alexander Pushkin 1833 240 pages

The Double Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 144 pages

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A Hero of Our Time Summary

A Hero of Our Time

by Mikhail Lermontov 1839 185 pages

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Diary of a Superfluous Man Summary

Diary of a Superfluous Man

by Ivan Turgenev 1850 80 pages

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Life and Fate Summary

by Vasily Grossman 1960 864 pages

Historical Fiction

Despair Summary

by Vladimir Nabokov 1934 212 pages

Russian Literature

Life and Fate Summary

by Vasily Grossman 1960 864 pages

Historical Fiction

Invitation to a Beheading Summary

Invitation to a Beheading

by Vladimir Nabokov 1935 223 pages

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