Russianliterature Stories

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Raskolnikov is a troubled young man adrift in the dark and chaotic streets of St Petersburg. De...

The more you know, the more sickening the world gets. It's like nothing is real anymore. You start questioning your own existence. To be honest, sometimes your own exist...

CONTINUED FROM BOOK ONE

With the help of my book reviews, take a voyage through the intricate web of Russian literature. I go deeply into the pages of these masterpieces, exploring themes of lo...

Alexander Griboyedov. Woe from Wit. A Comedy in 4 Acts. Play in Verse. Translated from the Russian by Alec Vagapov

An idea of what the brothers's future after the end of the novel might have been like. With nothing more than a scribbled address and the hope of meeting his brother aga...

We live amidst the ruins of the Third Rome... and it's beautiful! For it is from destruction that creation arises, from creation - art, and from art - eternity. Russia...

War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, which is regarded as a central work of world literature and one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements. Th...

LIFE OF THE MAIN CHARACTER NAMED SHADOU IS FULL OF ROUTINE: HOME - WORK - EVENING FATIGUE - DEBTS - INSIGNIFICANT CAREER PROMOTIONS. THE HABITUAL LIFESTYLE IS SUDDENLY C...

This book is a compilation of Tolstoy's quotes and maybe, in the future, they'll be by other Russian authors.