Best Russian Short Stories

This quintessential compilation of Russian short stories, characterized by Russian literature’s hallmark traits of true universality and democracy of spirit, includes:

The Queen of Spades, by Alexsandr S. Pushkin

The Cloak, by Nikolay V. Gogol

The District Doctor, by Ivan S. Turgenev

The Christmas Tree and the Wedding, by Fiodor M. Dostoyevsky

God Sees the Truth, But Waits, by Leo N. Tolstoy

How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials, by M.Y. Saltykov

The Shades, A Phantasy, by Vladimir G. Korlenko

The Signal, by Vsevolod M. Garshin

The Darling, by Anton P. Chekov

The Best, by Anton P. Chekov

Vanka, by Anton P. Chekov

Hide and Seek, by Fiodor Sologub

Dethroned, by I.N. Potapenko

The Servant, by S.T. Semyonov

One Autumn Night, by Maxim Gorky

Her Lover, by Maxim Gorky

Lazarus, by Leonid Andreyev

The Revolutionist, by Michaïl P. Artzybashev

The Outrage—A True Story, by Aleksandr I. Kuprin