How about some of your favorite books from them...
2006-09-06 07:02:03 · 16 answers · asked by elliott 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Tolstoy
2006-09-06 07:03:34 · answer #1 · answered by NNY 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tergenev's "Fathers and Sons" - a great book by a great author (often overlooked!) about Russian peasantry in the 19th century - *but* get a decent translation in English. Most translations are pathetically boring and will loose you in the first few pages. But the "Everyman's Library" series is excellent - (I think it is a maroon hard cover.) It will pull you into the story in the first chapter as the original Russian does. Get *that* version from a public library if you can. . . . I suggest this book because it is shorter than some other Russian classics. And in that Everyman's Library version, you are much more likely to finish reading it than with many other Russian classics. Start with this one and move up to some of the others afterward. Enjoy.
2006-09-06 14:13:03 · answer #2 · answered by norsesoutheastwest 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maxim Gorky
Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov
Valentin Kataev
Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Joseph Brodsky
Short story writer Sergei Dovlatov
Victor Pelevin
Vladimir Sorokin
2006-09-06 17:04:57 · answer #3 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boris Pasternak, Leo Tolstoy
2006-09-06 15:36:50 · answer #4 · answered by M. Romeo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dostoevsky wrote "The Brothers Karamazov"
2006-09-06 14:04:01 · answer #5 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gulag Archipelago is a read that everyone will like. Disturbing and invigorating at the same time, about his time in the Soviet Gulag System.
2006-09-06 14:50:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
- Lev Tolstoj (he wrote Anna Karenina)
- Dostoevskij (he wrote a lot of novels but I can name them only in Italian becuase I'm form Rome: Delitto e Castigo, I fratelli Karamazov, I demoni, Il giocatore, l'adolescente, l'idiota and many others that I haven't already read)
- Bulgakov (Master and Margarita)
- Cechov ( he wrote a lot of short stories)
- Odoevskij (Russian nights)
if there are mistakes forgive me, I'm foreign!
2006-09-06 16:15:46 · answer #7 · answered by Evelyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leo Tolstoy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
War and Peace. (most famous for: Anna Karenina (1877).
2006-09-06 14:49:02 · answer #8 · answered by Orditz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekov, and those other Russian guys...
2006-09-06 14:09:45 · answer #9 · answered by DrJunk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky. Look their books on the Internet...do your own homework!
2006-09-06 14:06:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋