Coming back to the "nest" of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides...

On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a...

Combining psychological detail with a strong sense of place and time, this tale bears all the hallmarks of Chekhov's genius, and...

First published in 1831, Belkin’s Stories was the first completed work of fiction by the founding father of Russian literature....

This collection of lesser-known early short fiction - ranging from absurd humorous sketches to psychological dramas and tragic...

One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is...

While at a party organized by the local landowner for the officers of his brigade, the shy and awkward Ryabovich is suddenly...

Set during the Pugachov rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain's Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and...

In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been...

In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western...

The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and...

Based on Dovlatov's actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail,...

An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov is running out of money and has recently divorced from his...

Includes pictures and an extensive section on Dostoevsky's life and works.
After spending several years in a sanatorium...

When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he...

Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant faade of the imperial capital...