Question by Artemisia: What are “must read” Russian novels other than Crime and punishment and War and peace?
crime and punishment and war and peace
Answers and Views:
Answer by drunkenduck
Anna Karina . . . Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov . . . Dostoyevsky
Fathers and Sons . . . Turgenev
The Master and Margarita . . . Burgin
Eugene Onegin . . . Pushkin
Dead Souls . . . Gogol
and a little more modern
Cancer Ward . . . Solzhenitsyn
Answer by Damask J
“The Idiot”, “The Brothers Karamazov” by Dostoevsky
“The Master and Margarita”, “The White Guard”, “Heart of a Dog” by Bulgakov
“We” by Zamyatin
“The Twelve Chairs” by Ilf and Petrov
“A Hero of Our Time” by Lermontov
“Fathers and Sons” by Turgenev
“And Quiet Flows the Don” by Sholokhov
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Wave2012 says
Join all the authors listed in prevoius answers!!! All the novels in all the answers are supposed to be read by educated person in Russia. They are all learned at school.
Some more:
Nikolay Chernyshevsky “What Is to Be Done?”
Nikolai Gogol “Taras Bulba”
Ivan Goncharov “Oblomov”
Ilf and Petrov “The Twelve Chairs”, “The Little Golden Calf”
Aleksandr Kuprin “The Bracelet of Garnets”
Nikolai Leskov “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk”
Alexander Pushkin “The Captain’s Daughter”
Mikhail Sholokhov “Virgin Soil Upturned”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”
Aleksandra says
Alexander Pushkin ‘Eugene Onegin’, ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’
Mikhail Lermontov ‘A Hero of Our Time’
Nikolai Gogol ‘Dead Souls’, ‘The Overcoat’, ‘The Government Inspector’
Ivan Turgenev ‘Fathers anda Sons’, ‘A Sportsman’s Sketches’/’ The Hunter’s Sketches’
Mikhail Bulgakov ‘The Master and Margarita’, ‘Heart of a Dog’, ‘A Country Doctor’s Notebook’
Aleksandr Griboyedov ‘Woe from Wit’
Poetry:
Alexander Pushkin, Afanasy Fet, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev; Fyodor Sologub, Ivan Bunin, Sergei Yesenin, Nikolay Gumilev, Alexander Blok, Valery Bryusov, Konstantin Balmont, Innokenty Annensky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova