Russian literature (1)

 I have had a love for russian literature since childhood, since my father loves to read, my grandfather has a huge library. Russian literature is quite rich, and the love of reading is a certain trait of russian people. Many people abroad know who Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Bulgakov are. For the first time in my blog, I will tell you about my favourite Russian writers and where to start if you want to get acquainted with russian literature.

Mikhail Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita"

One of the most mysterious and amazing novels of the XX century. The novel "The Master and Margarita" is the business card of Mikhail Bulgakov. For more than ten years, he worked on the book that became his destiny novel, a testament novel. In "The Master and Margarita" there is everything: cheerful mischief and aching sadness, romantic love and witchcraft obsession, magical mystery and reckless play with evil spirits.

Mikhail Sholokhov "And Quiet Flows the Don"

Mikhail Sholokhov's epic novel "The Quiet Don" is one of the most significant, large-scale and talented works of Russian literature that brought the author the Nobel Prize. The novel takes place against the background of the most important events in the history of Russia in the first half of the twentieth century - the revolution and the Civil War, which changed not only the ancient way of the Don Cossacks, to which the main character Grigory Melekhov belongs, but also the fate and appearance of the whole country.

Mikhail Bulgakov "Heart of a Dog"

Another work of Bulgakov "Heart of a Dog" is one of the most beloved works of Bulgakov by readers. A story about an extraordinary experiment of a brilliant doctor.

Moscow, 1924. Professor Philip Philipovich Preobrazhensky, an outstanding surgeon, has achieved excellent results in practical rejuvenation. Continuing his research, he conceived an unprecedented experiment – an operation to transplant a human pituitary gland and testicles with appendages and spermatic cords to a dog. The homeless dog Sharik, chosen as a test animal, picked up by him on the street, got access to the professor's spacious apartment and excellent food. The organ donor was Klim Chugunkin, who died in a fight – a thief, an alcoholic and a rowdy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and punishment"

Poor and proud student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov decides to check whether he is capable of an act that elevates him above "ordinary" people. To do this, he kills a pathetic old pawnbroker — and then her sister, who happened to be at the crime scene. Dostoevsky reinterprets the detective plot: the name of the murderer and the composition of the crime are known from the very beginning, and the intrigue is the inevitable approach of punishment. Dostoevsky combines philosophical questions about the freedom of the individual with presaging existentialism — and creates one of the most important novels in the history of literature. I highly recommend reading this book, as it is one of the most interesting books I have read in my life. 

 Nikolai Gogol "Dead Souls"

"Dead Souls" is a work by the writer Nikolai Gogol, the genre of which is designated by the author as a poem. The very first work of Gogol that I read and is still my favourite.

The adventurer Chichikov buys up "dead souls" - deceased serfs, registered as living at the last revision. The landlords are surprised by the request of an enterprising acquaintance, but they are happy to get rid of the burden because they pay taxes for the peasants recorded in the audit fairy tales as for the living. In the future, Pavel Ivanovich plans to commit a number of frauds with the merchants and fabulously enrich himself. But his Napoleonic plans are not destined to come true.