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This author of "War and Peace" is considered one of the greatest novelists of all time.
- Leo Tolstoy
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Anton Chekhov
- Alexander Pushkin
This novel by Dostoevsky follows the mental anguish of a murderer named Raskolnikov.
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Crime and Punishment
- The Idiot
- Notes from Underground
Often called the father of Russian literature, this poet wrote "Eugene Onegin."
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Nikolai Gogol
- Alexander Pushkin
- Ivan Turgenev
This Tolstoy novel tells the tragic story of a married woman's affair and her downfall in Russian high society.
- Anna Karenina
- Resurrection
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- War and Peace
This playwright and short story master wrote "The Cherry Orchard" and "The Seagull."
- Maxim Gorky
- Ivan Turgenev
- Leo Tolstoy
- Anton Chekhov
This satirical novel by Mikhail Bulgakov features the Devil visiting Soviet Moscow.
- We
- The Master and Margarita
- Doctor Zhivago
- Heart of a Dog
This Dostoevsky novel explores faith, doubt, and morality through four brothers, including the intellectual Ivan and the spiritual Alyosha.
- Crime and Punishment
- The Idiot
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Demons
This author wrote "Fathers and Sons," a novel about generational conflict in 19th-century Russia.
- Ivan Turgenev
- Nikolai Gogol
- Alexander Pushkin
- Leo Tolstoy
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