Suggested Additional Russian Short Stories

19th Century 20th Century

Nikolai Karamzin

  • Natalie, the Boyar's Daughter

Nikolai Gogol

  • Diary of a Madman

Ivan Turgenev

  • First Love
  • Asya

Fedor Dostoevsky

  • A Meek Woman

Lev Tolstoy

  • Kreuzer Sonata
  • Death of Ivan Ilyich

Anton Chekhov

  • The Man in a Case
  • About Love
  • Ward No. 6
  • The Student
  • The Black Monk

Maxim Gorky

  • Chelkash
  • Old Woman Izergil

Isaak Babel

  • The King

Andrei Platonov

  • The Potudan River

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • Matryona's House

Andrei Sinyavsky (Abram Tertz)

  • Pkhents

Evgenii Kharitonov

  • The Oven

Viktor Erofeev

  • The Parakeet

Liudmila Petrushevskaya

  • Time: Night

Tatiana Tolstaya

  • Sleepwalker in a Fog