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Best Russian BooksLesley Chamberlain's Top 12 Russian Books

Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls (1842)

Ivan Goncharov

Oblomov (1859)

Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons (1862)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment (1867)

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace (1863–9)

Maxim Gorky

My Childhood (1913), My Apprenticeship (1915), and My Universities (1921)

Andrei Bely

St Petersburg (1922)

Mikhail Sholokhov

Quiet Flows the Don (1928–40)

Vladimir Nabokov

Bend Sinister (1947)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Cancer Ward (1968)

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita (completed 1938, published 1973)

Venedikt Yerofeev

Moscow Stations (written 1970 and first published in the West in 1977)