Many of us left the school with the conviction that most of the Russian classics are a rather boring and inconceivably prolonged by several hundred pages work about the burdens of life, mental suffering and philosophical search for the main characters. We have collected the best works of Russian classics, which you can not not finish reading.
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Anatoly Pristavkin "The Golden Cloud Last Night"
"The Golden Cloud" was spent by Anatoly Pristavina - a piercing story in its tragedy that occurred with the orphans of the twin brothers Sasha and Kolka Kuzmin, evacuated together with the other children of the orphanage during the war in the Caucasus. It was decided to set up a labor colony for the development of lands. Children are innocent victims of power politics towards the peoples of the Caucasus. This is one of the most powerful and honest stories about military orphans and the deportation of the Caucasian peoples."The Golden Cloud" was translated into 30 languages of the world and rightfully included among the best works of Russian classics.10 place in our rating.
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Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago
Roman Boris Pasternak "Doctor Zhivago" , who brought him world fame and the Nobel Prize - in 9th place in the list of the best works of Russian classics. For his novel Pasternak was sharply criticized by representatives of the official literary world of the country. The manuscript of the book was banned for publication, and the writer himself under pressure had to give up the presentation of the prestigious award. After the death of Pasternak she was transferred to his son.
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Mikhail Sholokhov "Quiet Flows the Don"
"Quiet Flows the Don" by Mikhail Sholokhov on the scale and scope of the period of life of the protagonists described in it can be compared with the "War and Peace" of Leo Tolstoy. This epic narrative about the life and fate of representatives of the Don Cossacks. The novel covers three most complicated epochs of the country: the First World War, the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War. What was happening in the soul of people in those days, what were the reasons for standing on different sides of the barricades of relatives and friends? The writer tries to answer these questions in one of the best works of Russian classical literature."Quiet Flows the Don" - on the 8th place in our rating.
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Stories by Anton Chekhov
The stories of A. P. Chekhov , the generally recognized classic of Russian literature, take the 7th place on our list. One of the most famous playwrights in the world, wrote more than 300 works of a different genre and passed away very early, at 44 years old. Chekhov's stories, ironic, funny and eccentric, reflected the realities of the life of that era. They have not lost their relevance even now. The peculiarity of his short works is not to answer questions, but to ask them to the reader.
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I. Ilf and E. Petrov "Twelve Chairs"
Novels of writers with remarkable sense of humor I. Ilf and E. Petrov "Twelve Chairs" and "Golden Calf" occupy the 6th place among the best works of Russian classics. After reading them, every reader will understand that classical literature is not only interesting and exciting, but also funny. The adventures of the great combinator Ostap Bender, the protagonist of the books of Ilf and Petrov, will not leave anyone indifferent. Immediately after the first publication of the work of writers were ambiguously received in literary circles. But time has shown their artistic value.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn "The Gulag Archipelago"
On the fifth place of our rating of the best works of Russian classics - "Gulag Archipelago" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn .This is not only a great novel about one of the most difficult and terrible periods in the history of the country - repressions in the USSR, but also an autobiographical work based on the author's personal experience, as well as letters and memoirs of more than two hundred prisoners of camps. The publication of the novel in the West was accompanied by a loud scandal and harassment, launched against Solzhenitsyn and other dissidents. The publication of the Gulag Archipelago became possible in the USSR only in 1990.The novel is among the of the best books of the century .
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Nikolai Gogol "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka"
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is a universally recognized classic of world significance. The crown of his work is the novel Dead Souls, the second volume of which was destroyed by the author himself. But the first book of by Gogol - "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" was included in our rating of the best works of Russian classics. It's hard to believe that the stories that were included in the book and written with sparkling humor were practically the first experience in Gogol's writing. A lazy review of the work left Pushkin, who was genuinely amazed and fascinated by Gogol's stories, written in a lively, poetic language, without fussiness and stiffness.
The events described in the book occur in different time periods: in the XVII , XVIII XIX centuries.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"
Roman "Crime and Punishment" of FM Dostoevsky takes the third place in the list of the best works of Russian classics. He received the status of a cult book of world significance. This is one of the most frequently screened books. This is not only a deeply philosophical work, in which the author confronts readers with the problems of moral responsibility, good and evil, but also a psychological drama and a fascinating detective story. The author shows the reader the process of turning a talented and respectable young man into a murderer. He is equally interested in the possibility of redemption to Raskolnikov.
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Leo Tolstoy "War and Peace"
The great novel-epopee of Leo Tolstoy "War and Peace" , the volume of which terrifies schoolchildren for many decades, is actually very interesting. It covers the period of several military campaigns against the strongest in those days of France, headed by Napoleon Bonaparte. This is one of the brightest examples of the best works not only of Russian but also of world classics. The novel is recognized as one of the most epic works in world literature. Here every reader will find his favorite topic: love, war, courage.
The second place in the ranking of the best works of Russian classics.
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Mikhail Bulgakov "Master and Margarita"
The amazing novel by Mikhail Bulgakov "Master and Margarita" heads our list of samples of the best classical literature. The author did not have to live to publish his book - it was published 30 years after his death.
Master and Margarita - so complex a work that no attempt to screen the novel failed. The figures of Woland, the Master and Margarita require the filigree accuracy of the transmission of their images. Unfortunately, this has not yet been achieved by any actor. The most successful one can be considered the adaptation of the novel by the director Vladimir Bortko.
