These Russian tales span the time of Russia's founding in the 800s-900s all the way to the early twentieth century and are factually based, although p...
Vera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's firs...
The Secret of the Night or Rouletabille and the Tsar is a 1913 mystery novel by the French writer Gaston Leroux. It is the third in his series of nove...
A Sportsman's Sketches was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote...
The narrator, an English teacher of languages living in Geneva, is narrating the personal record of Kyrilo Sidorovitch Razumov. Razumov is a student i...
Edward Granville Browne travelled to Persia (Iran) as a young man who had already studied Farsi and Turkish, who was fascinated by the culture and lit...
Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. Following wh...
The first chapter tells of Maroosia and Vanya who live in a hut of pine logs in the forest with their grandfather, the forester Old Peter. Their fathe...
In "Satan's Diary", Andreyev summoned up his boundless disillusionment in an absorbing satire on human life. Fearlessly and mercilessly he hurled the...
The book follows the story of a young boy named Sergei, who lives in Russia with his family. Through Sergei's eyes, readers are introduced to the cult...
In this, Buchanan offers a vivid portrayal of life in Petrograd during one of the most turbulent periods in Russian history. She provides a detailed a...
Step into the heart of one of history's most gripping battles with "Tactical Studies on the Battles around Plevna" by Thilo Lebrecht Ernst Michael von...
"A young Jewish girl's journey from Russia to America, and her struggle to find her place in the world."
In this memoir, Rose Gollup Cohen recounts h...
Immerse yourself in the rich and diverse world of Russian literature with this collection of classic stories by some of the country's most celebrated...
Dive into the enchanting world of Russian folklore with The Russian Storybook, a captivating collection of tales from the song-cycles of Kiev and Novg...
Childhood (Детство [Detstvo]; 1852) is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy. They are the works that launched his writing career....
To tell the truth, this story — “A trip to Polesye” — is not so much complicated with philosophical or psychological ideas. In this story author had a...
Krasavitse, Kotoraya Niuhala Tabak (To a Beautiful woman, Who Was Smelling Tobacco) is a small poem written by Alexander Pushkin, a famous Russian poe...
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a sophisticated novell with extremely hard to comprehend philosophical ideas lying on the border of par...
Yosef Haim Brenner (1881-1921) was a Ukrainian-born Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Born to a poor family, Br...
The Drums of Jeopardy is a 1920 American novel by Harold MacGrath. The story was serialized by the The Saturday Evening Post beginning in January of 1...
Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-centu...
