List of "Essential" or "Great" Russian reading
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1agentrv007
I've looked around some and have yet to find a good list of some "essential" or "greatest" Russian works like I've found of some American or British authors. Is there one that someone can direct me to or provide?
2brother_salvatore
Hmm, good question. I really wouldn't know where to begin, but if I put together a list, it would have to include:
Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
Dead Souls / short stories of Gogol
Crime and Punishment / Brothers Karamozov
War and Peace / Anna Karenina
Short stories of Chekov
Doctor Zhivago
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
The Master and The Margarita
I know there are plenty more then the above list. With Dostoevsky as my personal fav, I would include all his works, but others probably wouldn't. But I think the above list would all be essentials certainly.
Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
Dead Souls / short stories of Gogol
Crime and Punishment / Brothers Karamozov
War and Peace / Anna Karenina
Short stories of Chekov
Doctor Zhivago
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
The Master and The Margarita
I know there are plenty more then the above list. With Dostoevsky as my personal fav, I would include all his works, but others probably wouldn't. But I think the above list would all be essentials certainly.
3rebeccanyc
A year ago, the Reading Globally group did a theme read on 20th century Russian authors and you can find some suggestions there and on the Reading Globally regional page that includes Russia.
In addition to the above, I would include, just from books I've read in recent years:
Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
The Foundation Pit and Soul and Other Stories by Andrey Platonov
Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin
In addition to the above, I would include, just from books I've read in recent years:
Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
The Foundation Pit and Soul and Other Stories by Andrey Platonov
Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin
4wrmjr66
I would add Summer in Baden Baden and some work by Turgenev. I have The Gulag Archipelago and Cancer Ward both on my TBR list. If you are looking beyond prose fiction, I would read Checkov's plays and poems by Akhmatova to the list as well.
5brother_salvatore
Yes, Turgenev for sure. Totally forgot about him. Also Gulag Archipelago would be an essential for me also.
6unlucky
I would echo what brother_salvatore said (although I have yet to read Anna Karenina or any Pushkin, I am ashamed to admit) except that I would add on House of the Dead by Dostoevsky, Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, and Life and Fate.
7unlucky
Oh, and A Hero of Our Time, I've just started it and I think it belongs on this list.
9morwen04
Some masterpieces that tend to get overlooked include:
And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home to the Sea by Mikhail Sholokhov which together create The Don Epic.
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin which is reminiscent of Brave New World or 1984 but written well before either.
and finally The Golovlyovs by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home to the Sea by Mikhail Sholokhov which together create The Don Epic.
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin which is reminiscent of Brave New World or 1984 but written well before either.
and finally The Golovlyovs by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
10StevenTX
Here are my suggestions. This is based on a list I compiled a few years ago before taking a vacation trip to Russia. I've read all but a few of them. It's limited to three works per author, and they are novels unless otherwise indicated.
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
- Eugene Onegin (verse novel)
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
- Dead Souls
- Collected Stories
- The Inspector General (play)
Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891)
- Oblomov
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841)
- A Hero of Our Time
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
- Fathers and Sons
- A Sportsman’s Notebook (stories)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
- Crime and Punishment
- The Idiot
- The Brothers Karamazov
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889)
- The Golovlyov Family
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- Anna Karenina
- War and Peace
Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895)
- The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
- The Cherry Orchard (play)
- The Three Sisters (play)
- Selected Short Stories
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
- Mother
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953)
- Collected Stories
Andrey Bely (1880-1934)
- Petersburg
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937)
- We
Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966)
- Selected Poems
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
- Doctor Zhivago
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
- The Master and Margarita
Marina Tsvetayeva (1892-1941)
- Selected Poems
Isaac Babel (c1894-1940)
- Red Cavalry and Other Stories
Yury Olesha (1899-1960)
- Envy
Andrei Platonov (1899-1951)
- The Foundation Pit
M. Agayev (c1900-1973)
- Novel with Cocaine
Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
- Life and Fate
Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984)
- And Quiet Flows the Don
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
- Cancer Ward
- First Circle
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Leonid Tsypkin (1926-1982)
- Summer in Baden Baden
Venedict Yerofeyev (1938-1990)
- Moscow to the End of the Line
I'm sure there are many living authors who should be added to the list, but I'm less certain about which specific works to recommend.
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
- Eugene Onegin (verse novel)
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
- Dead Souls
- Collected Stories
- The Inspector General (play)
Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891)
- Oblomov
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841)
- A Hero of Our Time
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
- Fathers and Sons
- A Sportsman’s Notebook (stories)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
- Crime and Punishment
- The Idiot
- The Brothers Karamazov
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889)
- The Golovlyov Family
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- Anna Karenina
- War and Peace
Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895)
- The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
- The Cherry Orchard (play)
- The Three Sisters (play)
- Selected Short Stories
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
- Mother
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953)
- Collected Stories
Andrey Bely (1880-1934)
- Petersburg
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937)
- We
Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966)
- Selected Poems
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
- Doctor Zhivago
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
- The Master and Margarita
Marina Tsvetayeva (1892-1941)
- Selected Poems
Isaac Babel (c1894-1940)
- Red Cavalry and Other Stories
Yury Olesha (1899-1960)
- Envy
Andrei Platonov (1899-1951)
- The Foundation Pit
M. Agayev (c1900-1973)
- Novel with Cocaine
Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
- Life and Fate
Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984)
- And Quiet Flows the Don
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
- Cancer Ward
- First Circle
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Leonid Tsypkin (1926-1982)
- Summer in Baden Baden
Venedict Yerofeyev (1938-1990)
- Moscow to the End of the Line
I'm sure there are many living authors who should be added to the list, but I'm less certain about which specific works to recommend.
11prairiemeetsthepines
This last list was great, and no list can be half complete without Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time. For more modren writers I beleive Sergei Dovlatov is an essential, and would recommend his short story collection "Suitcase."
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