Best Russian Literature. For more specific lists, see: Greatest Russian Novels of All Time. Best Russian (Soviet 1917-1991) Literature. Best Post-WWII Soviet Lit. Best Books by Russian Female Writers. Score. A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked ...

29/01/2018 · You can’t really discuss Russian literature without mentioning Tolstoy’s masterpiece. Modern readers often forget (or never knew) that this novel was an explosive event in literature, an experimental work that shattered many previous rules concerning what was or wasn’t a novel, what was or wasn’t allowed. You might think this story set during and after the …

The list contains the authors that would hardly qualify to be called well-known: Marina Dyachenko, Telman Karab-ogli, Yuri Kruman, Victor Serge... Putting them in the list Greatest Russian Novels of All Time and omitting the really great books looks at least irresponsible. Some people use these lists as reference and recommendation...

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov. Heart of a Dog is another shortcut to classic Russian literature. Mikhail Bulgakov ‘s work tells the story of a famous and widely envied scientist who conducts a successful experiment: he transplants the …

14/05/2013 · 9. Fyodor Dostoesvky – The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880) It is difficult to exclude many of Dostoevsky’s works, but Karamazov has not only retained its status as one of the seminal works in Russian Literature, but it has also gone on to become one of the most celebrated novels of all time.

Entertaining and iconic, The Master and Margarita is a must-read for anyone familiar with Russian literature.

16/10/2014 · And Quiet Flows the Don. by Mikhail Sholokhov. Often compared to War and Peace, this epic historical novel traces the fate of a typical Cossack family over a tumultuous ten-year period, from just before the beginning of World War I to the bloody civil war following the Russian Revolution of 1917.

The Russian writer’s other finest literary works combined a wistful nostalgia for the past such as A Lear of the Steppes and Torrents of Spring, along with …