Russian literature: famous Russian authors and poets, Russian literary history and movements; a guide to websites
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Author and poet directories, texts, libraries and archives
Russian poets of the 20th Century.
List of Russian language novelists. Wikipedia
List of Russian-language poets. Wikipedia
List of Russian-language playwrights. Wikipedia
Read Russia
Read Russia, founded in 2012, is a new initiative based in Moscow, New York, and London to celebrate Russian literature and Russian book culture. Through innovative programs, projects and events supporting the English-language translation and publication of Russian works, Read Russia provides international audiences with fresh opportunities to engage – in person, on screen, and online – with Russia’s literary leaders and heritage.
Lib.ru
Maksim Moshkov’s Digital library, giving access to many Russian literary texts, humour, poetry, etc.
Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore
The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB-web) is a full-text digital resource. FEB-web accumulates information in text, audio, visual, and other forms on 11th-20th-century Russian literature, Russian folklore, and the history of Russian literary scholarship and folklore studies.
Litera.ru
Litera.ru brings together information on the best literary Russian Internet resources: digital libraries, reviews of the book news, literary competitions and much more.
Russian Virtual Library
The Russian Virtual Library (“Russkaia Virtual’naia Biblioteka”, RVB) is a non-commercial humanitarian project. RVB is an academic digital library whose aim is electronic publication of both classical and contemporary works of Russian literature on the Web and CD-ROMs. All publications are based on authentic sources and provided with academic commentaries.
Klassika.ru
Online full-text library of many classics of Russian literature in the public domain, including both prose and poetry; it also includes short biographies and portraits of the authors.
Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of History Electronic Recourses Library
The Electronic Resources Library from MGU, provides full-text access to a number of Russian history sources, from the 17th through 20th centuries. There are also links to other online sources outside this virtual library. The site is in Russian and English versions, while the source texts themselves are in Russian or Old Russian.
Wikipedia list of Russian language writers.
Wikipedia list of list of Russian language poets.
Awards
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The Bakhtin Centre
The Bakhtin Centre was founded in October 1994. Its purpose is to promote multi- and inter-disciplinary research on the work of the Russian philosopher and theorist Mikhail Bakhtin and the Bakhtin Circle.
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Contemporary Russian writers and poets
Contemporary Russian Poets Database
(in English)
Twenty-first Century Russian Poetry
An anthology translated into English by New York-based Larissa Shmailo. Selected poems from fifty writers.
Grigory Ryzhakov – Russian Writer
Mini Guide to Modern Russian Books
Formalism
Formalists
The Russian formalists, Russian formalism.
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Journals/Russian literary journals
Chtenia
Readings from Russian life.
Contemporary Slavic Literature
Russian Art and Culture
Since its launch in 2011 Russian Art+Culture has become the one of world’s most popular and comprehensive websites dedicated to Russian culture.
Russian Literature Journal
Russian Literature combines issues devoted to special topics of Russian literature with contributions on related subjects in Croatian, Serbian, Czech, Slovak and Polish literatures.
The Russian Review
A major academic journal of Russian studies.
Znamia
A major literary journal based in Moscow.
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Maxim Moshkov’s Library
A large on-line library of Russian Literature.
Newspapers and magazines in Russia,
a directory from World Press.org
La Nuova Europa
An international cultural journal about Russia and Eastern Europe.
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Poetry, poetry readings
Modern Russian poetry : texts and translations (1917)
Russian poetry readings on YouTube.
Quotes
Russian literary quotes, from GoodRead.
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Russian Literature Online. Online Russian texts.
Russian Literature Resource Guide
Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies. Duke University
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Texts online
Maxim Moshkov’s E-library of Russian literature.
(in Russian)
Contemporary Russian Poets Database
(in English)
Russian Literature Online. Online Russian texts.
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Wikipedia entry on Russian literature.
Famous Russian writers and poets, past and present
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Ahkmatova, Anna
Anna Akhmatova. Pictures, audio files, poetry.
Anna Ahkmatowa. Works in Russian, German and English at the eLibrary Projekt (eLib)
Anna Akhmatova. Poems at Poets.org
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Bely, Andrei
Petersburg by Andrey Bely. Project Gutenberg
Blok, Alesander
Translations into English of poems by Blok.
Collected poems translated into English by Alec Vagapov.
Wikipedia entry on Alexander Blok.
Brodsky, Joseph
Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize Archive.
Joseph Brodsky. New York Times Archive, articles by and about Joseph Brodsky.
Joseph Brodsky. Academy of American Poets
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Master and Margarita. Wikipedia
Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita
A web-based multimedia annotation to Master and Margarita, created Bulgakov’s by Kevin Moss, Middlebury College.
Mikhail Bulgakov. The Guardian
Latest news and comment on Mikhail Bulgakov from guardian.co.uk.
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Chekov, Anton
Anton Chekov, biography and internet sites.
Anton Chekov. Plays and stories.
Anton Chekov. Stories in English translations by Constance Garnett.
Anton Chekov, Uncle Vanya, Plays in etext from Project Gutenburg, Eldritchpress.org:
The Sea Gull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1896), The Three Sisters (1901), The Cherry Orchard.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky. Wikipedia entry.
Fyodor Dostoevsky. Concordances of The Complete Works of Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment (plain text)
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Gandlevsky, Sergei
Sergei Gandlevsky. Audio recordings of poems, from PennSound.
Gogol, Nicolai
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. Background information. Sussex University
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. Biography and Works
Goncharov, Ivan
Ivan Goncharov. Wikipedia entry.
Gorky, Maxim
Maxim Gorky at Project Gutenberg.
Grossman, Vasily
Vasily Grossman. Wikipedia entry.
Vasily Grossman. Prospect Magazine
Review of Life and Fate in the London Review of Books
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Lermontov, Mikhail
Works by Mikhail Lermontov at Project Gutenberg
Mikhail Lermontov, Wikipedia entry.
Limonov, Eduard
Eduard Limonov’s online journal.
Eduard Limonov Wikipedia entry.
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Mayakovsky, V. V.
V. V. Mayakovsky and his circle, plus Russian avant garde website links.
Mayakovsky. Children’s books and poems for children.
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Wikipedia entry.
Mayakovsky poems in English translation.
Vladimir Mayakovsky. Poems in English translation at Famous Poets and Poems.
Mayakovsky, entry in Russiapedia.
Mandelshtam, Osip
Osip Mandelshtam. Catalogue of Mandelshtam papers held at Princeton University.
Osip Mandelshtam.Translations from Russian.
Osip Mandelshtam. Poems in Russian.
Nabokov, Vladimir
Vladimir Nabokov. The International Nabokov Society. Zembla. For Nabokovians.
The Official site of the Vladimir Nabokov Society. Life and works, news, pictures, writings. Lolita, Ada, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
Video interviews and discussion with Vladimir Nabokov (in French). YouTube
Nabokov’s Butterflies, an introduction by Brian Boyd.
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Pasternak, Boris Leonodicich
Boris Pasternak. Doctor Zhivago quotes, links, background, news. The Nobel Prize Archive
Boris Pasternak. Selected poems in downloadable English translation.
Boris Pasternak. Wikipedia entry.
Boris Pasternak poems. Poets.org
Boris Pasternak. Poems in translation at F&P.
Boris Pasternak. Nobel Prize Archives. Biography
Pasternak’s interview with The Paris Review
Pasternak Family Papers at the Hoover Institution Archives
Poems in Russian. Boris Pasternak Poems
Poems in Russian. Boris Pasternak: biography, photos, poems, prose, critical essays.
Poems in Russian. Boris Pasternak: poems, biography, photo.
Pelevin, Victor
Platonov, Andrei
Интернет-библиотека Алексея Комарова
Texts in Russian at Alexei Komarov’s Internet Library
Андрей Платонович Платонов
Works in Russian at ImWerden
Andrei Platonov
Guardian article.
Prilepin, Zahar
Zahar Prilepin: Savladavanje samoće
novosti.rs
Zakhar Prilepin. Wikipedia, entry.
Pushkin, Aleksandr (Alexander) Sergeyevich
Alexander Pushkin. Shorter poems.
Pushkin poems in Cyrillic. Public Electronic Library.
Pushkin Memorial Museum, Moscow.
Alexander Pushkin. Wikipedia entry.
Aleksandr Pushkin
Etexts atProject Gutenberg.
Alexander Pushkin. The complete works in Russian.
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Translated by Vladimir Nabokov.
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Shiskin, Mikhail Pavlovich
Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin. Wikipedia entry.
Mikhail Shishkin, an introduction.
Mikhail Shishkin. Articles in World Literature Today.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Nobel Prize Archive
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Wikipedia entry.
Sorokin, Vladimir
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Tolstoy, Leo
Tolstoy, Leo. Tolstoy Studies Journal
Leo Tolstoy. Bibliomania. A research and study site. Anna Karenina, War and Peace.
Biographies, Criticism and Analysis, Works by Tolstoy. University of Sussex.
Leo Tolstoy. Images of Tolstoy
This genuine colour photograph of Tolstoy dates from 1908, by Prokudin-Gorsky
Tsvetaeva, Marina
Marina Tsvetaeva. The Best of Marina
Tsvetayeva, English translations by Ilya Shambat.
Marina Tsvetaeva. The Poetry Foundation
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich
Turgenev, Bartelby.com etexts.
Yerofeyev, Viktor
Q & A in The Independent with Victor Erofeyev about Russian Beauty
Review: Life With an Idiot by Victor Erofeyev
The Russian God. The New Yorker
The Good Stalin by Victor Erofeyev. The New Yorker
Yevtuschenko, Yevgeny
Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Wikipedia entry.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Collected Poems in English. Part 1
Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Collected Poems in English. Part 2
Vodennikov, Dimitry
Official site of the poet (in Russian)
Vodennikov’s blog (in Russian)