My favourite Russian novel is Master and Margarita by Bulgakov :-)

Dostoevsky is the only Russian author I’ve read so far, but I’ve enjoyed him so much I would love to read more Russian literature. I just bought War and Peace, and I’ll be adding your recommendations to my TBR.

My list of favorite books has many Russian authors: Half of the top 14 books are Russian. 2) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 3) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev 6) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy 7) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 11) "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin 12) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 14) "Virgin Soil" by Ivan Turgenev 19) "Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 24) "Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev 27) "In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 49) "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: an Experiment in Literary Investigation" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 74) "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Awwww, you are very kind! I feel this is a very relaxing video LOL This video makes me feel like if I’m ur friend and u are happily explained ur favorite books! ☺️

Thanks for the suggestions!

what a privilege it is to read Russian literature in Russian!

Great video! Thanks for the reviews ;)

I can’t wait to read Crime and Punishment. Great recommendations!

Strugatsky brothers, Elena Haetskaya, Marina Diachenko, Valentin Pikul,Vainers brothers, Yuri German, Yulian Semenov, Vladimir Michailov, Vladimir Obruchev, , Evsey Borenboim, Ilf & Petrov, Bulgakov, Gogol, Aleksei(!) Tolstoy, Vladimir Druzhinin, Maks Fray, Evgeny Lukin, Alexander Longinov, Andrey Dobrynin, Leonid Soloviev, Vasily Yan, Vasily Artemiev.. etc

Nice recommendations!!!

I loved 1984 and I am definitely reading "Mi" by Zamyatin. Thanks again for this nice video, keep it up!!

Interesting! Informative! Thanks

i am about to get into the Russian Lit and have decided to start with The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. So excited to read more from this genre!

thanks for the list :)

I read Crime & Punishment first. It's what got me into Russian Lit! I loved the psychology of Raskolnikov. I'm reading We right now. It's very unique! I'm having trouble not comparing it to 1984. It's amazing that We inspired Orwell's book ^.^

I wish I could speak Russian. It would have been amazing to read my favorite books in their original language!! I read all the books you mentioned , just finished 12 chairs actually . I love love Russian Literature 💝

There was a very strange feature in this case, strange because of its extremely rare occurrence. This man had once been brought to the scaffold in company with several others, and had had the sentence of death by shooting passed upon him for some political crime. Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die. I was very anxious to hear him speak of his impressions during that dreadful time, and I several times inquired of him as to what he thought and felt. He remembered everything with the most accurate and extraordinary distinctness, and declared that he would never forget a single iota of the experience. ‘About twenty paces from the scaffold, where he had stood to hear the sentence, were three posts, fixed in the ground, to which to fasten the criminals (of whom there were several). The first three criminals were taken to the posts, dressed in long white tunics, with white caps drawn over their faces, so that they could not see the rifles pointed at them. Then a group of soldiers took their stand opposite to each post. My friend was the eighth on the list, and therefore he would have been among the third lot to go up. A priest went about among them with a cross: and there was about five minutes of time left for him to live. ‘He said that those five minutes seemed to him to be a most interminable period, an enormous wealth of time; he seemed to be living, in these minutes, so many lives that there was no need as yet to think of that last moment, so that he made several arrangements, dividing up the time into portions-one for saying farewell to his companions, two minutes for that; then a couple more for thinking over his own life and career and all about himself; and another minute for a last look around. He remembered having divided his time like this quite well. While saying good- bye to his friends he recollected asking one of them some very usual everyday question, and being much interested in the answer. Then having bade farewell, he embarked upon those two minutes which he had allotted to looking into himself; he knew beforehand what he was going to think about. He wished to put it to himself as quickly and clearly as possible, that here was he, a living, thinking man, and that in three minutes he would be nobody; or if somebody or something, then what and where? He thought he would decide this question once for all in these last three minutes. A little way off there stood a church, and its gilded spire glittered in the sun. He remembered staring stubbornly at this spire, and at the rays of light sparkling from it. He could not tear his eyes from these rays of light; he got the idea that these rays were his new nature, and that in three minutes he would become one of them, amalgamated somehow with them. ‘The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, ‘What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!’ He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.’¹

Read Karamazov Brothers back when i was 16(around 1998) here in sweden...one of the best books i have read.

"And quiet flows the donn" is a fantastic russian novel too

I love Russian literature so much,so where is Chekhov.He is my favourite writer of all time.Thanks for sharing

Lovely gal! Amazing book recommendations! Xx

The brothers Karamazov is my favourite russian novel. And it's been 5 years, when will you come back?

Thank you!

Third and fourth book sound interesting, I heard nice things about "We", I will definitely read it. First two I read as obligatory books in high school and I remember I was really annoyed by both main characters, but overall I liked the books. The only thing I disagree is "Anna Karenina" movie that you mentioned. It was such a disaster. I remember spending the time in cinema thinking just why. Why did they choose actors that didn't correspond at all to characters, why did they act so bad, what was that ridiculous adaptation? I think people should first read book in order not to get a bad impression based only on this movie.

I'm learning Russian and I hope I'll be able to read these books in Russian someday

Thanks for sharing. I only wonder why The Master and Margarita is not on your list.

I’ve read the Psychological thrillier Crime and Punishment. I highly recommend.

Your English is excellent!

A wonderful video

I will try to read 12 chairs. I cant find in brazilian edition. Maybe I have to read in english, but its ok

Hi 👋🏼 I need to have these original books 📚 In Russian 🇷🇺 language!

nice video thank you: -)

Thanqu so much

How is The Brothers Karamazov not on this list?

I would add Master and the Margarita to the list

I am Russian. It is so interesting to know what Russian books people from other coutries like to read ))

Checkhov!

What’s the fourth book that 1984 was inspired by

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is perhaps the best book I've ever read

Hello I am from Kazakhstan

‘We’ inspired Orwel,’ and Orwel inspired me to write ‘Sex in the Time of Segregation!’

Any books on strategy, manipulation, sucess, etc i love putin simmilar to machivelli 48 laws of power etc etc ...in the russian mind?

Make compilation of famous Russian authors and famous Russian literature.

why the anna book look so small?

Are you aware of the most scandalous book in Russian literature - "Secret Journal 1836-1837" by A. S. Pushkin. This literary masterpiece is published in 25 countries, staged in Paris etc. see: mipco.com/win/pushLP.html The famous Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), fatally wounded in a duel by his brother-in-law and rival, left a secret, ciphered journal, which was discovered and smuggled out of the USSR in 1976 by the Russian author Mikhail Armalinsky. There has been a lot of speculation and mystery surrounding this journal. According to legend, Pushkin's will stipulated that the journal not be published until 100 years after his death. Some people claimed that the Journal never existed at all. The Journal does exist and consists of explicit confessions about intimate relationships that Pushkin had with his wife, her two sisters, and other women, which brought him to his tragic end. These astonishing events and reflections reveal unknown details of Pushkin's life - the life of a nineteenth century Russian Don Juan. Its available on amazon, ebay, etc

прикольно, отличная подборка

Is there a website to read them in russian online as well :< ?

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Hello, I would like to ask, is it difficult for you to learn Russian, if so why and in what moments I can help. ( I'm Russian)

Хороший выбор литературы

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Master & Magerita

sweetie come back

master and margarita bulgakov...

My five favourite - the idiot - Anna Karenina - brothers Karamazov - crime and punishment - war and peace I have half read dead souls and it was lovely. But I never completed it. Please suggest more, comment section.

Нестандартный набор))Видно что очень личное)).

Я не один русский...?

С каких это пор преступление и наказание детектив?

Bulgakov is from KIEV Ilf & Petrov are from ODESSA Russia, as always, appropriates other people's merits for itself🤦‍♀️

Are you kidding? Where "Doctor Zhivago"?

where the fuck is Doctor Zhivago?

you are sooo cute...

"craim end panishment" I S N O T D E T E C T I V! I S R U S S I A N D R A M A

ANNA KARENINA IS NOT A ROMANTIC NOVEL PLEASE!!!!!

бред какой-то Замятин...ахах

The way you pitch Anna Karenina you make it sound like some cleched YA crap. The book is far more complex than another "forbidden love story"

It's funny to watch when you're Russian. And I'm glad that you are interested in Russian culture, but now Russia is in decline because of Putin and corruption. We have the worst government in the world! And the Russians are already accustomed to the bad and do not want to change anything, because our constitution works for politicians, not for people (( The one who has more money is right, but people do not have money because The average salary for one person is 600 $ ! It's good that in my family it is more than $ 1500 for one person or I would be sad. Sorry for my english😔😔😔

dostoievsky is the most overrated writer for the history,,,,,,,is so boring.....and CHEJOV???? THE BEST OF THE ALL TIMES....