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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
White Nights
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1848 82 pages
4.07
200k+ ratings
Russian Literature
Short Stories
Russia
The Gambler Summary
The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 188 pages
3.91
100k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Crime and Punishment Summary
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 671 pages
4.28
900k+ ratings
Russia
Russian Literature
Literature
War and Peace Summary
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy 1869 1392 pages
4.16
300k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Russia
The Brothers Karamazov Summary
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 796 pages
4.38
300k+ ratings
Russia
Classics
Russian Literature
Oblomov Summary
Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov 1859 586 pages
4.13
40k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
The Master and Margarita Summary
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 372 pages
4.29
300k+ ratings
Russia
Fantasy
Russian Literature
Anna Karenina Summary
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy 1878 964 pages
4.10
800k+ ratings
Romance
Russia
Historical Fiction
The Death of Ivan Ilych Summary
The Death of Ivan Ilych
by Leo Tolstoy 1886 86 pages
4.13
100k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Poor Folk Summary
Poor Folk
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 167 pages
3.78
34k+ ratings
Russian Literature
Russia
Novels
Notes from Underground Summary
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 136 pages
4.18
100k+ ratings
Philosophy
Russia
Russian Literature
The Idiot Summary
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 667 pages
4.21
100k+ ratings
Russia
Russian Literature
Literature
Demons Summary
Demons
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1872 733 pages
4.30
58k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
The Cherry Orchard Summary
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov 1903 96 pages
3.68
42k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
Lolita Summary
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov 1955 368 pages
3.87
800k+ ratings
Literature
Russia
Novels
We Summary
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924 256 pages
3.88
100k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Dystopia
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky Summary
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 320 pages
4.24
4k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Russia
The Idiot Summary
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 667 pages
4.21
100k+ ratings
Russia
Russian Literature
Literature
The Overcoat Summary
The Overcoat
by Nikolai Gogol 1842 57 pages
4.15
48k+ ratings
Short Stories
Russia
Russian Literature
What Is Art? Summary
What Is Art?
by Leo Tolstoy 1897 252 pages
3.72
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Art
Classics
Dead Souls Summary
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol 1842 464 pages
3.98
91k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
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
4.19
77k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Philosophy
Notes from Underground Summary
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 136 pages
4.18
100k+ ratings
Philosophy
Russia
Russian Literature
Doctor Zhivago Summary
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak 1957 592 pages
4.01
100k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Russia
Russian Literature
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Summary
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 32 pages
4.03
35k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Russian Literature
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Summary
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy 1886 304 pages
4.12
16k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Russia
In the First Circle Summary
In the First Circle
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 742 pages
4.36
1k+ ratings
Russia
Classics
Literature
Cancer Ward Summary
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 576 pages
4.26
17k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
The Gulag Archipelago Summary
The Gulag Archipelago
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 660 pages
4.37
11k+ ratings
History
Russia
Politics
The First Circle Summary
The First Circle
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 580 pages
4.24
8k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Brisbane Summary
Brisbane
by Eugene Vodolazkin 2018 343 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Russia
Historical Fiction
Literature
Roadside Picnic Summary
Roadside Picnic
by Arkady Strugatsky 1972 145 pages
4.13
79k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Russia
Classics
The Double Summary
The Double
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 144 pages
3.67
39k+ ratings
Classics
Russian Literature
Russia
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