Russian & Soviet

In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murád, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety....

"I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man", a nameless voice cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the painful self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn of a lonely individual....

Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin is an enigma: arrogant, cocky, melancholic, brave, cynic, romantic, loner, socialite, soldier, free soul, and yet, victim of the world, he eludes definition....

«Хаджи-Мурат» — произведение одного из величайших писателей мира, русского прозаика и мыслителя Л. Н. Толстого (1828–1910)...

BBC radio productions of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, plus selected shorter fiction and bonus programmes exploring his life and work. One of the most important and influential Russian writers of the 19th century, Fyodor Dostoevsky is admired worldwide for his great realist novels, exploring...

Роман "Анна Каренина" был написан Л. Н. Толстым в 1877 году, а год спустя...

À la suite du traité de Tilsit, la paix semble à nouveau s'établir durablement en Europe. Et chacun de retourner à ses occupations d'avant-guerre...

A work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family....

Konstantin Paustovsky was a Russian writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965, 1966,1967,1968. Paustovsky began writing while still...

Madame Ranyevskaya and her daughter Anya have returned home from Paris to discover that their family estate – which includes their beloved cherry orchard – has to be sold to cover the family’s debts. They believe a miracle can save their orchard. But will their stubborn pride and fond...

Step into the rich history and culture of Mother Russia with this classic collection by esteemed writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. With his penchant for gripping prose and powerful themes that unmasked the social struggles and intellectual clashes of his day....

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound philosophical and psychological novel that explores deep questions of faith, doubt, free will, and...

The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment....

L'immensité de la steppe, l'avidité et la fatuité française précipitent la Grande Armée vers la défaite. Koutousov, en fin stratège, ne fait qu'accompagner la...

Russie, début du XIXe siècle. À l'Ouest de l'Empire, les guerres napoléoniennes font rage et se rapprochent dangereusement des frontières...

1812. Napoléon rompt brutalement la paix avec la Russie. Les russes, pris de court, n'ont d'autre choix que de se retirer précipitamment...

In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition....

Anna Karénine est une jeune femme mariée à Alexis Karénine et mère d'un jeune garçon. Elle se rend à Moscou chez son frère Stiva Oblonski...

Anna Karénine est une jeune femme mariée à Alexis Karénine et mère d'un jeune garçon. Elle se rend à Moscou chez son frère Stiva Oblonski...

В романе "Идиот" Достоевский стремился, по его словам, "изобразить вполне...

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia....

The story is an absurd, comic, surreal, and sometimes grotesque send up of Major Kovalyov, who wakes up one morning to find his nose missing. The story has three parts....

Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the cast of BBC Radio 4's epic full-cast dramatisation. Adapted for radio by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Leo Tolstoy's epic story follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. First...

Tolstoy's story of one woman's fate is brought powerfully to life in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens. Anna Karenina enjoys a privileged and aristrocratic lifestyle as the wife of influential government official Alexy Karenin. Yet their ten-year...