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Russian works
Identify these famous works of Russian literature
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Detailed account of the network of prison and labor camps - scattered like islands in a sea | The Gulag Archipelago |
| The story deals with the desire of a middle-aged pedophile Humbert Humbert for a 12-year-old girl. | Lolita |
| The hero falls in love with Lara, but he’s already married as is she. Their lives intertwine and separate during the Russian Revolution. | Doctor Zhivago |
| Mme Ranevskaias returns to her estate and finds out that the family house is to be auctioned. Her brother Gaev is too impractical to help in the crisis. | The Cherry Orchard |
| Famous opening line "Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." | Anna Karenina |
| Prince Andrei fights daringly in the war and dies on the battlefield with a feeling of peace; Pierre Bezukhov wonders about life and suffers as a POW | War and Peace |
| Starts with a confession by the narrator. "I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased." | Notes from the Underground |
| Examined the conflict between the older generation, reluctant to accept reforms, and the idealistic youth. Features Bazarov, a nihilist character | Fathers and Sons |
| The titular characters recognize the uselessness of their lives and cling to one another for consolation | The Three Sisters |
| Tale of a saintly Christ-like epileptic, Prince Myshkin | The Idiot |
| An ambitious mixture of literary forms, partly a one-thousand-line poem in heroic couplets, partly a commentary on them by a mad exiled king. | Pale Fire |
| The heroine falls in love with Count Vronsky and eventually leaves her husband and son. She is ostracized from society and becomes jealous and kills herself by throwing herself under a train. | Anna Karenina |
| A talented artist falls in love with a tender poetic beauty who turns out to be a prostitute and commits suicide when his dreams are shattered. | Nevsky Prospect |
| The Czar of Russia is haunted by guilt over the murder of the Tsarevich Dmitry. | Boris Godunov |
| A statue of Peter the Great that comes to life and chases a poor man who had cursed Peter for building St. Petersburg on a swamp prone to deadly floods. | The Bronze Horseman |
| A man who loses a body part which tries to live its own life as a civil servant. | The Nose |
| Raskolnikov kills an old pawnbroker to prove he’s not constrained by ordinary morality, Porfiry Petrovich is the detective who knows of his guilt and also served as the model for TV detective Columbo. | Crime and Punishment |
| A young civil servant, Khlestakov, finds himself stranded in a small provincial town and mistaken for an important bureaucrat | The Inspector General |
| Akakii Akakievich is the humble civil servant who asks the help of a rude 'important personage' who won’t help him. Akakii dies and haunts the VIP | The Overcoat |
| A gambler kills a woman for the secret to gambling success. | The Queen of Spades |
| A con man, Chichikov, who arrives in a provincial town to buy dead serfs. By selling them with a cheaply-bought lands, Chichikov planned to make a huge profit. | The Dead Souls |
| The plot deals with the murder of the father by his illegitimate son, Smerdiakov. His son, Dmitri, is arrested. | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Levin falls in love with Kitty and lives in the country and realizes that a simple life like a peasant is the happiest. | Anna Karenina |
| A novel in verse; the protagonist is Young Tatiana falls in love with him and writes him a letter, but he rejects her. He kills his friend in a duel. Later he meets Tatiana in Moscow and falls in love with her but she rejects her b/c she is married. | Evgeny Onegin |
| Famous chapter “The Grand Inquisitor” poses this dilemma: what if it were possible to make people happy by enslaving them? | Brothers Karamazov |
| Plays out against the backdrop of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and shows that war makes innocent people suffer. However, those who survive the hardships of battle rebuild their lives and try to make the lives of others happy. | War and Peace |
| Covers the activities of 24 hours in a prisoner in the Soviet gulag | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
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