The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Russia

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
3499 Reflections of a Russian Statesman Konstantin P. Pobedonostsev 1898 Russian Russian
3564 The Eighth Life Nino Haratishvili 2014 Georgian German
3576 The Possessed Elif Batuman 2010 Turkish English
3604 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
3637 The Return and Other Stories Andrey Platonov 1946 Russian Russian
3637 Memoirs Of A Revolutionist Vera Figner 1920 Russian Russian
3637 Oh, These Times Catherine the Great 1790 Russian Unknown
3637 Notes From The Blockade Lydia Ginzburg 1960 Russian Russian
3637 The Memoirs Of Princess Dashkova Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova 1840 Russian Russian
3637 The Invisible Flag Peter Bamm 1952 German German
3637 The Thaw Ilya Ehrenburg 1954 Russian Russian
3637 The Raging Reporter Egon Erwin Kisch 1924 Czech German
3637 Child Of The Revolution Wolfgang Leonhard 1955 German German
3637 Stalingrad Theodor Plievier 1948 German German
3637 Der Moderne Kapitalismus Werner Sombart 1902 German German
3821 Lenin's Tomb David Remnick 1993 American English
3833 Повесть о жизни Konstantin Paustovsky 1956 Russian Russian
3833 The Doctor Of Stalingrad Heinz G. Konsalik 1956 German German
3882 Woe From Wit Alexander Griboyedov 1825 Russian Russian
3913 The History Of A Town Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin 1870 Russian Russian
4068 The Great Terror Robert Conquest 1968 British English
4073 The Bronze Horseman Alexander Pushkin 1837 Russian Russian
4080 Diary Of A Madman Nikolai Gogol 1835 Russian Russian
4082 The Manor Isaac Bashevis Singer 1967 Polish Yiddish
4089 The Little Tragedies Alexander Pushkin 1832 Russian Russian
4098 Четвёртая проза Osip Mandelstam 1930 Russian Russian
4101 Purge Sofi Oksanen 2008 Finnish Finnish
4103 Poor Liza Nikolay Karamzin 1792 Russian Russian
4131 Dark Avenues Ivan Bunin 1943 Russian Russian
4148 The Tale Of Cross Eyed Lefty From Tula And The Steel Flea Nikolai Leskov 1881 Russian Russian
4165 Vasili Tyorkin Alexander Tvardovsky 1943 Russian Russian
4172 Sandro of Chegem Fazil Iskander 1966 Russian Russian
4197 The Mysterious Portrait Nikolai Gogol 1835 Ukrainian Russian
4213 The Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald 1988 British English
4255 Scenes From The Past Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin 1869 Russian Russian
4258 A Nobleman's Nest Ivan Turgenev 1859 Russian Russian
4265 The Old World Landowners Nikolai Gogol 1835 Ukrainian Russian
4266 Cases Daniil Kharms 1939 Russian Russian
4267 Sevastopol Sketches Leo Tolstoy 1855 Russian Russian
4268 Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? Nikolay Nekrasov 1870 Russian Russian
4271 The Noise Of Time Osip Mandelstam 1925 Russian Russian
4272 The Blue Book Mikhail Zoshchenko 1923 Russian Russian
4273 Journey From St. Petersburg To Moscow Alexander Radishchev 1790 Russian Russian
4274 The Gypsies Alexander Pushkin 1827 Russian Russian
4275 In The Ravine Anton Chekhov 1900 Russian Russian
4277 Fallen Leaves Vasily Rozanov 1913 Russian Russian
4291 Conversations With Igor Stravinsky Robert Craft 1959 American English
4308 The Polyglots William Gerhardie 1925 British English
4391 The Winds Of War Herman Wouk 1971 American English
4443 Chronicles of Wasted Time Malcolm Muggeridge 1972 British English
4542 Ingenious Pain Andrew Miller 1997 British English
4580 Antiworlds Andrey Voznesensky 1964 Russian Russian
4613 Gulag Anne Applebaum 2003 American English
4686 In Search Of The Miraculous P.D. Ouspensky 1947 Russian English
4812 Happy Moscow Andrey Platonov 1991 Russian Russian
4844 The Last Quarter Of The Moon Chi Zijian 2005 Chinese English
4891 The Short Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1886 Russian Russian
4898 Winter In Moscow Malcolm Muggeridge 1934 British English
4955 The Fiery Angel Valeri Briussof 1908 Russian Russian
4955 The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1911 British English
5006 Against the Day Thomas Pynchon 2006 American English
5155 The Gadfly Ethel Lilian Voynich 1897 British English
5163 Forgotten Kingdom Peter Goullart 1955 Russian English
5235 Memories And Commentaries Igor Stravinsky 1960 Russian English
5328 Pushkin Hills Sergei Dovlatov 1983 Russian Russian
5387 In Memory Of Memory Maria Stepanova 2017 Russian Russian
5407 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra 2013 American English
5447 The Moscoviad Yuri Andrukhovych 1993 Ukrainian Ukrainian
5465 Child 44 Tom Rob Smith 2008 Russian English
5470 Meetings With Remarkable Men George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1963 Unknown Russian
5501 Schlachtbeschreibung Alexander Kluge 1978 German German
5523 Mao's China And After Maurice Meisner 1977 American English
5582 Professor Martens' Departure Jaan Kross 1984 Estonian Estonian
5594 World War Z Max Brooks 2006 American English
5598 Bloodlands Timothy Snyder 2010 American English
5612 Zuleikha Guzel Yakhina 2015 Russian Russian
5752 Shadows On The Tundra Dalia Grinkevičiutė 1997 Lithuanian Lithuanian
5782 The Sergeant In The Snow Mario Rigoni Stern 1953 Italian Italian
5843 A Month In The Country Ivan Turgenev 1855 Russian Russian
5893 The Power Of Darkness Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
5895 A Confession Leo Tolstoy 1882 Russian Russian
5909 Complete Prose Tales Alexander Pushkin 1831 Russian Russian
5913 The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy 1863 Russian Russian
5904 Notes From Underground & Other Stories Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 Russian Russian
5938 The Turning Point Fritjof Capra 1982 American English
5938 Der Bedrohte Friede Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker 1982 German German
5994 The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf Victor Pelevin 2004 Russian Russian
6004 The Story Of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
6004 Chekhov's Selected Stories Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
6004 Ivanov Anton Chekhov 1887 Russian Russian
6004 Master And Man Leo Tolstoy 1895 Russian Russian
6004 My Feminine Brother Marina Tsvetaeva 1923 Russian Russian
6004 Poem Of The End Marina Tsvetaeva 1923 Russian Russian
6004 The Flood Yevgeny Zamyatin 1929 Russian Russian
6004 The Golden Fruits Nathalie Sarraute 1963 French French
6004 The Ratcatcher Marina Tsvetaeva 1926 Russian Russian
6143 The Time Ludmila Petrushevskaya 1992 Russian Russian
6204 Kolymsky Heights Lionel Davidson 1994 British English
6217 Holocaust Charles Reznikoff 1975 American English
6251 Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson 2012 American English
6293 The Ringed Castle Dorothy Dunnett 1971 British English
6342 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6361 Во сне ты горько плакал Yuri Kazakov 1995 Russian Russian
6381 History Of Germany In The Nineteenth Century Heinrich von Treitschke 1879 German German
6381 A Voyage Round The World Georg Forster 1777 German German
6381 Literature And Revolution Leon Trotsky 1924 Russian Russian
6430 Riding The Iron Rooster Paul Theroux 1988 American English
6493 Living My Life Emma Goldman 1931 American English
6506 The Origins Of Totalitarian Democracy J. L. Talmon 1952 British English
6548 Children Of The Arbat Anatoli Rybakov 1988 Russian Russian
6593 The Queen's Gambit Walter Tevis 1983 American English
6611 The Russian Revolution Richard Pipes 1990 American English
6657 A Dream In Polar Fog Yuri Rytkheu 2005 Russian Russian
6661 Mendeleyev's Dream Paul Strathern 2000 British English
6676 The Mountain And The Wall Alisa Ganieva 2015 Russian Russian
6717 My Life Leon Trotsky 1930 Russian Russian
6748 Hoffman's Hunger Leon de Winter 1990 Dutch Dutch
6809 Eastbound Maylis de Kerangal 2012 French French
6888 The Boxer Rebellion Diana Preston 1999 Unknown English
6892 The Company Robert Littell 2002 American English