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The District Doctor
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Joe Phoenix
- Length: 26 mins
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The short story The District Doctor by Turgenev, written in 1848, is part of the "Sportsman's Sketches" cycle. It tells the tale of a hopeless love...
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Пиковая дама [The Queen of Spades]
- By: Alexander Pushkin
- Narrated by: Ksenia Tolstokoneva
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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Повесть Александра Сергеевича Пушкина, жанр русская классика. Сюжет повести обыгрывает излюбленную Пушкиным тему непредсказуемой судьбы, фортуны, рока....
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Республика ШКИД [Republic of ShKID]
- By: Leonid Panteleev, Grigoriy Belyh
- Narrated by: Natalia Pervina
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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Автобиографическая повесть Григория Белых и Леонида Пантелеева....
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Kate Lock
- Length: 40 hrs and 58 mins
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Anna Karenina is beautiful, married to a successful man, and has a son whom she adores....
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The Master and Margarita
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment....
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abridged version
- By Fiona S on 05-12-2021
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Seance
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 18 mins
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Seance is a famouse short story by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1922. Published in the magazine "Rupor" (1922, No. 4). The epigraph to the work...
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The District Doctor
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Joe Phoenix
- Length: 26 mins
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The short story The District Doctor by Turgenev, written in 1848, is part of the "Sportsman's Sketches" cycle. It tells the tale of a hopeless love...
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Пиковая дама [The Queen of Spades]
- By: Alexander Pushkin
- Narrated by: Ksenia Tolstokoneva
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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Повесть Александра Сергеевича Пушкина, жанр русская классика. Сюжет повести обыгрывает излюбленную Пушкиным тему непредсказуемой судьбы, фортуны, рока....
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Республика ШКИД [Republic of ShKID]
- By: Leonid Panteleev, Grigoriy Belyh
- Narrated by: Natalia Pervina
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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Автобиографическая повесть Григория Белых и Леонида Пантелеева....
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Kate Lock
- Length: 40 hrs and 58 mins
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Anna Karenina is beautiful, married to a successful man, and has a son whom she adores....
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The Master and Margarita
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment....
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abridged version
- By Fiona S on 05-12-2021
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Seance
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 18 mins
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Seance is a famouse short story by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1922. Published in the magazine "Rupor" (1922, No. 4). The epigraph to the work...
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Uncle Vanya
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 2 hrs
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Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his...
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The Fyodor Dostoevsky BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Devils & The Brothers Karamazov
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Roy Marsden, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
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BBC radio productions of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, plus selected shorter fiction and bonus programmes exploring his life and work....
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Монах
- By: Мэтью Грегори Льюис
- Narrated by: Константин Корольков
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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Мрачный, исполненный мистического ужаса роман о священнослужителе...
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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Hailed as a masterpiece on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought....
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White Nights
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 2 hrs
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White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant and introspective short story that delves into the complexities of human emotions and the transient nature...
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We
- By: Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Narrated by: Trevor O'Hare
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921. The novel was first published as an English...
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War and Peace
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Simon Russell Beale, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the cast of BBC Radio 4's epic full-cast dramatisation....
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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 59 hrs and 5 mins
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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....
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Crime and Punishment (Audio Connoisseur Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
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This magnificent novel is about the murder of a miserly, aged pawnbroker and her younger sister by a radical, destitute St. Petersburg student named Raskolnikov....
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- By Anonymous User on 30-01-2019
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Collection: The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Notes from the Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Michael A. Harding
- Length: 96 hrs and 12 mins
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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....
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Весь Булгаков
- By: Михаил Булгаков
- Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов, Дмитрий Шабров
- Length: 78 hrs and 8 mins
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В настоящую аудиокнигу включены наиболее знаковые произведения Михаила Булгакова. Попадая в удивительный мир писателя, читатель остается покоренным...
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 36 hrs and 45 mins
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The touching picture of Anna Aarkadyevna Karenina's slow disintegration has fascinated readers for well over a century....
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Invitation to a Beheading
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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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....
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Leo Tolstoy: The Non-Fiction Collection
- What is Art?; The Inevitable Revolution; The Kingdom of God Is Within You; A Confession
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Stephane Cornicard
- Length: 26 hrs and 36 mins
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This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 4 greatest works of non-fiction in one audiobook....
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Evgenii Onegin
- A New Translation by Mary Hobson
- By: Alexander Pushkin, Mary Hobson - translator
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
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Evgenii Onegin is best known in the West through Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin. But the original narrative poem is one of the landmarks of Russian literature....
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A Confession
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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A Confession, or My Confession, is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the acclaimed Russian...
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The Cherry Orchard
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett, Amanda Friday, Elizabeth Chambers, and others
- Length: 2 hrs
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The Cherry Orchard is Chekhov's final play, first performed in 1904 at the Moscow Art Theatre and directed by Konstantin Stanislavski....
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Преступление и наказание
- By: Федор Достоевский
- Narrated by: Всеволод Кузнецов
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
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Еще один вариант прочтения бессмертного романа Федора Михайловича...
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Прекрасная книга и талантливый наратор
- By Amazon Customer on 14-11-2023
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Guerre et Paix 1
- By: Léon Tolstoï
- Narrated by: Éric Herson-Macarel
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Russie, début du XIXe siècle. À l'Ouest de l'Empire, les guerres napoléoniennes font rage et se rapprochent dangereusement des frontières...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Essays Collection
- Winter Notes on Summer Impressions; Letters & Reminisances; Virginia Woolf's Essays on Dostoyevsky
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Ben Allen, Emma Gregory
- Length: 16 hrs
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This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of Fyodor Dostotevsky's two finest works of non-fiction....
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Schuld und Sühne
- By: Fjodor M. Dostojewski
- Narrated by: Frank Arnold
- Length: 27 hrs and 2 mins
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Der Autor erzählt die Leidensgeschichte des Studenten Rodion Raskolnikow, der zum Mörder wird und letztlich daran zerbricht...
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The Gospel in Brief
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Molly Mae
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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This is Leo Tolstoy's integration of the four biblical gospels into a single account of the life of Jesus which was inspired by his meticulous study of the original Greek versions of the Bible....
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 39 hrs and 30 mins
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Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. A complex novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major characters, it is spread over more than 800 pages (depending on the translation and publisher), typically contained in two volumes.
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First Love
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Mike Hogan
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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First Love by Ivan Turgenev - a story about real feelings and play. Main character works are passionately in love with the princess, who older than him, but for her a careless young man - just an object of ridicule. Other famous works, such as "Asya", "Fathers and Sons", "A Nest of Noblemen", "Biryuk", "On the Eve", "Mumu", "Fire at Sea", "The Wayside Inn", "The Watch", "Three Portraits", "A Strange Story", "The Meeting", etc.
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The District Doctor
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Joe Phoenix
- Length: 26 mins
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The short story The District Doctor by Turgenev, written in 1848, is part of the "Sportsman's Sketches" cycle. It tells the tale of a hopeless love between a dying girl from a noble family and a humble county doctor. Other famous works, such as "Asya", "Fathers and Sons", "A Nest of Noblemen", "Biryuk", "On the Eve", "Mumu","Fire at Sea", "The Wayside Inn", "The Watch", "Three Portraits", "A Strange Story", "The Meeting", etc.
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First Love and Other Stories
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Mike Hogan, Joe Phoenix, Richard Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Ivan Turgenev was an outstanding writer of the 19th century, a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of Russian language and literature. He was the author of philosophical and psychological poems, short stories, short novels, and novellas. Throughout his work, he delves into the themes of Russian intelligentsia and peasant life, showcasing mastery in creating psychological portraits.
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The Leo Tolstoy Collection
- War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Resurrection
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Christopher Preece
- Length: 96 hrs and 7 mins
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Drawing on three of the greatest works of Russian literature, this sweeping collection breathes new life into Leo Tolstoy’s legacy, providing contemporary listeners with an easy, accessible way to discover and enjoy this great Russian author’s literary talents. With gripping prose and profound philosophical insights, listeners will be transported to the battles of the Napoleonic era in War and Peace, explore the trials and tribulations of upper-class Russian life and love in Anna Karenina, and uncover a controversial reflection on Russian culture.
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Komarov Case
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 15 mins
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The Komarov Case' - is an exciting story by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940), an outstanding writer, playwright and theatre worker. Moscow is in a cold sweat - people disappear one by one, and then the bags with their corpses are found in different parts of the city. According to the same mode of wounds and the method of tying of victims - all these murders is the work of the same person.
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 39 hrs and 30 mins
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Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. A complex novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major characters, it is spread over more than 800 pages (depending on the translation and publisher), typically contained in two volumes.
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First Love
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Mike Hogan
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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First Love by Ivan Turgenev - a story about real feelings and play. Main character works are passionately in love with the princess, who older than him, but for her a careless young man - just an object of ridicule. Other famous works, such as "Asya", "Fathers and Sons", "A Nest of Noblemen", "Biryuk", "On the Eve", "Mumu", "Fire at Sea", "The Wayside Inn", "The Watch", "Three Portraits", "A Strange Story", "The Meeting", etc.
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The District Doctor
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Joe Phoenix
- Length: 26 mins
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The short story The District Doctor by Turgenev, written in 1848, is part of the "Sportsman's Sketches" cycle. It tells the tale of a hopeless love between a dying girl from a noble family and a humble county doctor. Other famous works, such as "Asya", "Fathers and Sons", "A Nest of Noblemen", "Biryuk", "On the Eve", "Mumu","Fire at Sea", "The Wayside Inn", "The Watch", "Three Portraits", "A Strange Story", "The Meeting", etc.
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First Love and Other Stories
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Mike Hogan, Joe Phoenix, Richard Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Ivan Turgenev was an outstanding writer of the 19th century, a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of Russian language and literature. He was the author of philosophical and psychological poems, short stories, short novels, and novellas. Throughout his work, he delves into the themes of Russian intelligentsia and peasant life, showcasing mastery in creating psychological portraits.
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The Leo Tolstoy Collection
- War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Resurrection
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Christopher Preece
- Length: 96 hrs and 7 mins
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Drawing on three of the greatest works of Russian literature, this sweeping collection breathes new life into Leo Tolstoy’s legacy, providing contemporary listeners with an easy, accessible way to discover and enjoy this great Russian author’s literary talents. With gripping prose and profound philosophical insights, listeners will be transported to the battles of the Napoleonic era in War and Peace, explore the trials and tribulations of upper-class Russian life and love in Anna Karenina, and uncover a controversial reflection on Russian culture.
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Komarov Case
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 15 mins
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The Komarov Case' - is an exciting story by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940), an outstanding writer, playwright and theatre worker. Moscow is in a cold sweat - people disappear one by one, and then the bags with their corpses are found in different parts of the city. According to the same mode of wounds and the method of tying of victims - all these murders is the work of the same person.
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Alyosha the Pot
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 12 mins
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Alyosha the Pot is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy (1905) about the life and death of a simple, uncomplaining worker. It was published after Tolstoy's death in 1911 and received high praise from Tolstoy's contemporaries. Without ever calling Alyosha a holy fool, Tolstoy centers the story on his meekness, aloofness, and foolishness. Alyosha's simple life, soft-spoken manner, and calm acceptance of death epitomizes Tolstoyan principles.
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Kholstomer
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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Kholstomer is a work by Leo Tolstoy that has been referred to as "one of the most striking stories in Russian literature". It was started in 1863 and left unfinished until 1886, when it was reworked and published as Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse. This story prominently features the technique of defamiliarization by adopting the perspective of a horse to expose some of the irrationalities of human conventions. Kholstomer's altruistic life is recounted parallel to that of his selfish and useless owner. At the end of the story horse dies but his corpse gives birth to a new life - that of wolf cubs.
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Seance
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 18 mins
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Seance is a famouse short story by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1922. Published in the magazine "Rupor" (1922, No. 4). The epigraph to the work, created on the basis of the author's life observations, is Mephistopheles' Patter "Do not invoke him!"
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Moscow Settings
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 16 mins
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Moscow settings - is an exciting story by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940), an outstanding writer, playwright and theatre worker. Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov's works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities.
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A Russian Christmas Party
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Trevor O'Hare
- Length: 43 mins
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A Russian Christmas Party by Leo Tolstoy is about a generous family on the brink of ruin whose mother pins their hopes for restoring their fortune on their son, Nicolas' marriage to a wealthy bride. Nicolas isn't cooperating, for he loves a poor girl named Sonia. Alas! How will they see it through?
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God Sees the Truth, but Waits
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 22 mins
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God Sees the Truth, But Waits is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872. The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he did not commit, takes the form of a parable of forgiveness. English translations were also published under titles "The Confessed Crime", "Exiled to Siberia", and "The Long Exile". The concept of the story of a man wrongfully accused of murder and banished to Siberia also appears in one of Tolstoy's previous works, War and Peace, during a philosophical discussion between two characters who relate the story and argue how the protagonist of their story deals with injustice and fate.
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White Nights
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 2 hrs
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White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant and introspective short story that delves into the complexities of human emotions and the transient nature of romantic connections. Set against the backdrop of St. Petersburg's nocturnal charm, the narrative follows the lonely protagonist through four consecutive white nights, where he encounters a mysterious young woman. As the two form a deep but ephemeral connection, Dostoyevsky explores themes of love, isolation, and the fleeting nature of human connections.
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Uncle Vanya
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 2 hrs
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Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends—Vanya, brother of the professor's late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local doctor—both fall under Yelena's spell while bemoaning the ennui of their provincial existence. Sonya, the professor's daughter by his first wife, who has worked with Vanya to keep the estate going, suffers from her unrequited feelings for Astrov.
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The Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Andrey Repin
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Anton Chekhov belongs to the cohort of the most prominent Russian classics, together with Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin. The rankings of the most read authors, comprising the 'golden fund' of the world's literature, persistently include Chekhov alongside Charles Dickens, the Bronte Sisters, Mark Twain... Chekhov's plays, such as Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and the short stories of this collection, are featured in the curriculum of faculties of philology of top global universities, such as University of Oxford, Harvard University and many more.
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The Beauties: Essential Stories
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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The Beauties: Essential Stories is a captivating collection that brings together some of the most remarkable and beloved works by the acclaimed Russian writer Anton Chekhov. This anthology showcases Chekhov's unparalleled talent for depicting the complexities of human nature, the intricacies of relationships, and the nuances of everyday life. Each story in this collection is a testament to Chekhov's unparalleled ability to capture the subtlest emotions and psychological depths of his characters.
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Stories
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen, Belinda Hillman
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
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About Love
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Andrey Repin
- Length: 20 mins
- Unabridged
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"About Love" is an 1898 short story by Anton Chekhov. The third and final part of the Little Trilogy, started by "The Man in the Case" and continued by "Gooseberries". The story begins with the love affair between the cook of the house, Nikanor and servant (beautiful woman) Pelageya. Nikanor, who is a drunkard, often verbally abuses and even beats his lover Pelageya when he is drunk. So Pelageya only wants to live with him without getting married. On the other hand, Nikanor doesn't want to be with her without getting married.