War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is now available for free ePub download or online reading. Intro: In Russia’s struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia…
The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin is now available for free ePub download or online reading. Intro: La Dame de pique, nouvelle fantastique d’Alexandre Pouchkine (1799-1837), structurée comme un roman, met en scène des personnages du théâtre populaire. La…
The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev is now available for free ePub download or online reading. Intro: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,…
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov is now available for free ePub download or online reading. Intro: It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself…
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam is now available for free ePub download or online reading. Intro: The story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who suffered continuous persecution under Stalin, but whose wife constantly supported both him and his writings…
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov is now available for free ePub download or online reading. Intro: One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously…
O Dono da Cidade by Alexandra Marinina is now available for free ePub download or online reading. Intro: Nástasia Kamenskaïa, inspectora da polícia criminal de Moscovo, nunca poderia imaginar que aquela supostamente regeneradora estadia no Centro de Repouso Girassol, situado…
Faithful Ruslan by Georgi Vladimov is now available for free ePub download or online reading. Intro: Unavailable for twenty years, this harrowing allegory of obedience to authority is esteemed as “one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period.”…
Petersburg by Andrei Bely is now available for free ePub download or online reading. Intro: A story of family dysfunction, parricide, political terror, conspiracy, and murder, this masterpiece also points to apocalypse and redemption. The world of history—the revolution of 1905—and the world…
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky is now available for free ePub download or online reading. Intro: Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of…
