| Song
of Prince Igor (Slovo o polku
Igoreve, 1185–87)
The Domostroi: Rules
for Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible (16 c.)
Avvakum Petrovich (c.
1620-1682), The Life of the
Archpriest Avvakum
Catherine the Great (1729-1796), Memoirs
of Catherine the Great, edited by Katherine Anthony (1927)
Gavrila
Derzhavin (1743-1816), Poetic Works
Denis Fonvizin
(1744?-1792), The Brigadier General (1786) and The Minor
(1784)
*Aleksandr Radishchev
(1749-1802), Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (1790)
Richard Pipes, [Nikolai
Karamzin's, 1766-1826] Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia (1811)
Aleksandr Pushkin
(1799-1837),The Captive of
the Caucasus (Kavkazskii Plennik, 1822), Boris Godunov
(1831), *Evgenii Onegin (1825-1832), The Captain's Daughter
(Kapitanskaia
dochka, 1836)
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), The
Inspector General (1836), *Dead Souls (1842)
Taras
Shevchenko (1814-1861), Poetical Works *Ivan Goncharov (1812-91), Oblomov
(1858)
*Aleksandr Herzen
(1812-1870), My Past and Thoughts (1852-66)
*Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841),
A Hero for Our Time (1840)
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), Virgin
Soil (1877) also Rudin (1856)
Fedor Dostoevskii (1821-81), *Notes
from the Underground (1864), *Crime and Punishment (1866), *Idiot
(1868), *The Devils (1872), *Brothers Karamazov
(1878-80)
*Mikhail
Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-89), History of a Town (1869-70)
*Nikolai Chernyshevskii
(1828-1889), What Is To Be Done? (1863-65)
Lev Tolstoi (1828-1910), *War
and Peace (1863-69), *Anna Karenina (1873-78), *Death
of Ivan
Ilich (1882), Resurrection
(1889-1899), What is Art? (1896-98)
*Aleksei Brusilov (1853-1926), A
Soldier's Notebook, 1914-1918 (1930)
Vladimir
Solovev (1853-1900), Three Dialogs
on War, Progress, and the End of History (1899) and Three
Meetings (1899)
Anton Chekhov
(1860-1904), *Uncle Vanya (1899) or *The Cherry Orchard
(1904)
Wassily Kandinsky (Vasilii
Kandinskii, 1866-1944), Concerning the
Spiritual in Art (1912)
Konstantin
Balmont (1867-1942)
Maksim Gorkii (1868-1936), *Mother
(1906); Autobiography of
Maxim Gorky combines his previously published My Childhood
(1915), In
the World (1917) and My University Days (1923)
Nadezhda Krupskaia
(1869-1939), Memories
of Lenin (Vospominaniia o Lenine, 1930)
Leonid Andreev
(1871-1919), The Seven That Were Hanged (1908)
Anton
Denikin (1872-1947), The White Army (1930)
Nikolai
Berdiaev (1874-1948), wrote much, including The Origins of Russian
Communism (1937), The
Fate of Man in the Modern World (1935), The Beginning and the
End (1952), The Meaning of the Creative Act (1954), The
Russian Idea (1946)
Vsevolod Meyerhold
(1874-1940),
various collections
available such as Meyerhold on Theatre (1991)
*Mikhail Artsybashev
(1878-1927), Sanin (1907)
*Trotskii (Lev Bronshtein,
1879-1940), My Life
(1930)
N. Valentinov (Vol'skii,
1879-1964), Encounters with Lenin (1968)
Andrei Bely (Boris Bugaev,
1880-1934), Petersburg (1912)
Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), *Verses
on a Beautiful Lady (1904); The Twelve (1918)
Aleksandr Kerenskii
(1881-1970), The Catastrophe: Kerensky's Own Story of the Russian
Revolution (1927)
*Sukhanov (Nikolai
Gimmer, 1882-1939), The
Russian Revolution, 1917: A Personal Record
(1955)
*Aleksei Tolstoi (1882-1945), Peter
the First (1929-45)
Fedor Gladkov (1883-1958), Cement
(1925)
Nikolai Gumilev (1886-1921), Notes
of a Cavalryman
(1916)
Boris
Nikolaevskii (1887-1966), Letter
of an Old Bolshevik (1937)
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), The
Complete Poems (1990)
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960),
most notable for his novel, Doctor
Zhivago, but also an acclaimed poet.
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), *Heart
of a Dog (1925) and Master and Margarita (1967)
Ilia Ehrenburg (1891-1967), *The
Thaw (1955); with Vasilii Grossman (1905-1964), Black
Book of Russian Jewry (1994)
Marina Tsvetaeva
(1892-1941)
Vladimir Maiakovskii
(1893-1930), A Cloud in Trousers (Oblako v Shanakh, 1915)
Isaac Babel (1894-1940), The
Odessa Tales (1921-24) and Red Cavalry (1923-26)
*Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971),
Khrushchev Remembers (1970); Khrushchev
Remembers: The Last Testament (1974) and Khrushchev Remembers:
The Glasnost Tapes (1990)
*Evgenii Zamiatin (1894-1937), We
(1924)
Nadezhda Mandel'shtam
(1899-1980), Hope against Hope (1970)
Evgeniia Ginzburg (1904-1977), Journey
Into the Whirlwind (1967)
Vasilii Grossman (1905-1964), Life
and Fate (Zhizn' i sud'ba, 1980); with Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967), Black
Book of Russian Jewry (1994)
Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-84), Tikhii
Don (Quiet Flows the Don, 1929) and Virgin Soil Upturned
(1932)
Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982), The
Kolyma Tales (1978)
*Anatolii Rybakov (A. N.
Aronov, 1911-1998), Children
of the Arbat (1987)
Vladimir Dudintsev (1918-1998),
Not by Bread Alone (1956)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-),
Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), *Letter
to Soviet Leaders (1974), The
Oak and the Calf (1975), The
Gulag Archipelago (1973-76)
Anatoly Chernyaev
(1921-), My Six
Years with Gorbachev (2000)
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), *My
Country and the World (1975) and Memoirs (1992)
*Roi
Medvedev (1925-), Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences
of Stalinism (1971)
Zhores Medvedev (1925-), The
Legacy of Chernobyl (1992)
Abram Tertz (Andrei Siniavskii,
1925-1997), The Trial Begins & On
Socialist Realism (1960); On Trial
(1966)
A. Anatolii (Anatolii
Kuznetsov,
1929-1979), Babi Yar (1967)
*Mikhail Gorbachev
(1931-), Perestroika:
New Thinking for Our Country and the World (1987)
*Boris Yeltsin (1931-), The
Struggle
for Russia (1994)
Vasilii Aksenov (1932-), Generations
of Winter (1994) and The Burn (Ozhog, 1975)
Vladimir Voinovich
(1932-), *Ivankiad (1976); The Life and Amazing
Adventures of the Soldier
Ivan Chonkin (Zhizn’ i neobychainye prikliucheniia soldata Ivana
Chonkina, 1969-75)
Andrei Voznesenskii (1933-), Selected
Poems
(1966)
Joseph Brodsky
(1940-1996), Poems
Pavel
Litvinov (1940-), The
Demonstration in Pushkin Square (1969)
*Vesselin Nedkov (1974-), 57
Hours, A
Survivor's Account of the Moscow Hostage Drama (1992)
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