Tick off each book as you read it. 28 of these 72 Russian classics are free to read online at pagineapp.com/classics/russian, with author guides and links to the rest.
The Golden Age begins: Pushkin, Gogol & Lermontov (1820s–1840s)
☐1.Woe from Wit — Alexander Griboyedov (1825)
☐2.Eugene Onegin — Alexander Pushkin (1833) · free on Pagine
☐3.Boris Godunov — Alexander Pushkin (1831)
☐4.The Queen of Spades — Alexander Pushkin (1834)
☐5.The Captain’s Daughter — Alexander Pushkin (1836) · free on Pagine
☐6.Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka — Nikolai Gogol (1831)
☐7.Taras Bulba — Nikolai Gogol (1835) · free on Pagine
☐8.The Inspector General — Nikolai Gogol (1836) · free on Pagine
☐9.The Nose — Nikolai Gogol (1836)
☐10.The Overcoat — Nikolai Gogol (1842)
☐11.Dead Souls — Nikolai Gogol (1842) · free on Pagine
☐12.A Hero of Our Time — Mikhail Lermontov (1840) · free on Pagine
Turgenev, Goncharov & the age of the great novel (1840s–1870s)
☐13.Who Is to Blame? — Alexander Herzen (1846)
☐14.A Sportsman’s Sketches — Ivan Turgenev (1852)
☐15.Rudin — Ivan Turgenev (1856)
☐16.A House of Gentlefolk — Ivan Turgenev (1859)
☐17.On the Eve — Ivan Turgenev (1860)
☐18.First Love — Ivan Turgenev (1860)
☐19.Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev (1862) · free on Pagine
☐20.Smoke — Ivan Turgenev (1867)
☐21.Oblomov — Ivan Goncharov (1859) · free on Pagine
☐22.Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District — Nikolai Leskov (1865)
☐23.The Enchanted Wanderer — Nikolai Leskov (1873)
☐24.Who Is Happy in Russia? — Nikolai Nekrasov (1877)
☐25.The Golovlyov Family — Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1880)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
☐26.Poor Folk — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1846) · free on Pagine
☐27.White Nights — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1848) · free on Pagine
☐28.The House of the Dead — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1862) · free on Pagine
☐29.Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1864) · free on Pagine
☐30.Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866) · free on Pagine
☐31.The Gambler — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866) · free on Pagine
☐32.The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1869) · free on Pagine
☐33.Demons — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1872) · free on Pagine
☐38.War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy (1869) · free on Pagine
☐39.Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy (1878) · free on Pagine
☐40.The Death of Ivan Ilych — Leo Tolstoy (1886) · free on Pagine
☐41.How Much Land Does a Man Need? — Leo Tolstoy (1886) · free on Pagine
☐42.The Kreutzer Sonata — Leo Tolstoy (1889) · free on Pagine
☐43.Master and Man — Leo Tolstoy (1895)
☐44.Resurrection — Leo Tolstoy (1899) · free on Pagine
☐45.Hadji Murad — Leo Tolstoy (1912) · free on Pagine
Chekhov, Gorky & the Silver Age (1880s–1920s)
☐46.Ward No. 6 — Anton Chekhov (1892)
☐47.The Seagull — Anton Chekhov (1896)
☐48.Uncle Vanya — Anton Chekhov (1897) · free on Pagine
☐49.The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories — Anton Chekhov (1899) · free on Pagine
☐50.Three Sisters — Anton Chekhov (1901)
☐51.The Cherry Orchard — Anton Chekhov (1904) · free on Pagine
☐52.The Lower Depths — Maxim Gorky (1902)
☐53.Mother — Maxim Gorky (1906) · free on Pagine
☐54.My Childhood — Maxim Gorky (1914)
☐55.The Seven Who Were Hanged — Leonid Andreyev (1908)
☐56.The Gentleman from San Francisco — Ivan Bunin (1915)
☐57.Petersburg — Andrei Bely (1913)
☐58.We — Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)
☐59.Red Cavalry — Isaac Babel (1926)
Soviet era & modern Russian classics
☐60.The White Guard — Mikhail Bulgakov (1925)
☐61.Heart of a Dog — Mikhail Bulgakov (1925)
☐62.The Twelve Chairs — Ilf and Petrov (1928)
☐63.And Quiet Flows the Don — Mikhail Sholokhov (1928)
☐64.The Foundation Pit — Andrei Platonov (1930)
☐65.Doctor Zhivago — Boris Pasternak (1957)
☐66.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)
☐67.Requiem — Anna Akhmatova (1963)
☐68.The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
☐69.Cancer Ward — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1968)
☐70.Roadside Picnic — Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1972)
☐71.The Gulag Archipelago — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1973)
☐72.Life and Fate — Vasily Grossman (1980)
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