Russian literature for beginners (part 1)
If you are new to the Russian literature, here’s a list of literary works for you.
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin:
The Captain’s Daughter (historical novel)
The Moor of Peter the Great (unfinished historical novel)
The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (a series of five short stories)
Dubrovsky (unfinished novel)
The Little Tragedies ( a series of four plays)
Eugene Onegin (novel in verse)
Boris Godunov (closet play)
Ruslan and Ludmila (poem)
The Queen of Spades (short story)
The Prisoner of the Caucasus (poem)
The Bronze Horseman (poem)
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (fairy tale in verse)
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (fairy tale in verse)
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov:
The Novice (Mtsyri, poem)
A Hero of Our Time (novel including five short stories)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev:
A Sportsman’s Sketches (collection of short stories)
Torrents of Spring (novel)
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol:
The Government Inspector (satirical play)
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (collection of short stories, two volumes of four stories each)
Mirgorod (collection of short stories, two volumes of two stories each)
Petersburg Tales (collection of short stories)
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin:
The Garnet Bracelet (short novel)
A Clump of Lilacs (short stories)
The Cherry Orchard (play)
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy:
Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (novels)
The Sevastopol Sketches (three short stories)
The Dragonfly and the Ant
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov:
The Master and Margarita (novel)