Inna Zaikina
This is your Russian Lit 101 from a Russian person who’s rediscovering the classics along with you. If you want to learn about Russian classics, their authors, historical context with a bit of a personal opinion thrown in here and there, you’re in the right place.
Zuleikha opens up her eyes
Day of the oprichnik is a horrifying dystopia I’m living
A few thoughts on War and peace
Looking for a good movie adaptation of Russian classics
What are Russian fairytales about?
Hero of Mikhail Lermontov’s time
Existential horror of Leonid Andreyev
Eugene Onegin, not just a novel, but a novel in verse, one heck of a difference
What should you read from Alexander Kuprin?
Scarlet Sails, Russian fairytale for young adults or more
Soviet trickster in pursuit of 12 chairs
History of a (weird) town by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
History of Russian Literature in 30 minutes
Lost in Bunin's Dark Avenues
What's inside Sergei Dovlatov's Suitcase?
The best of Soviet science fiction | Roadside Picnic
We are all going to Petushki | Moscow to the end of the line
Who's to blame? according to Alexander Herzen
What should you read from Gogol?
What you need to know about Dostoevsky
Woe from Wit of Griboyedov
Russian Christmas stories
What is the best Russian book?
We, the dystopia that started it all
Circles of hell in Gogol's Dead Souls
7 spooky stories from Russian Classical literature
The Aviator by Evgeniy Vodolazkin | Book review
5 Russian knockoffs of western children's books
10 fun facts about Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and sons by Ivan Turgenev | Book Review