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Jun 5, 2025

Russian Short Story Greats: my list of the best 🖋️

From Pushkin to Chekhov to Teffi to Bulgakov to Shalamov to Buida…

Russian Short Story Greats: my list of the best 🖋️

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Oct 31

Beauty Without Tenderness: Ivan Bunin’s ‘Muza’

A lyrical landscape surrounds an unequal relationship.

Beauty Without Tenderness: Ivan Bunin’s ‘Muza’

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Oct 11

Vodka, a Barking Prisoner and a Tin-Filled Buckle: Sergei Dovlatov’s ‘The Officer’s…

One life, one suitcase

Vodka, a Barking Prisoner and a Tin-Filled Buckle: Sergei Dovlatov’s ‘The Officer’s…

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Oct 10

Russian literature: Gossip Becomes Cruelty in Teffi’s ‘The Kind That Walk’

Russian literature: Gossip Becomes Cruelty in Teffi’s ‘The Kind That Walk’

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Oct 3

Teffi’s ‘Subtly Worded’: The Wittiest Russian Writer You’ve Never Read Will Break Your Heart 🖋️

Teffi’s ‘Subtly Worded’ starts as a joke about writing a letter home. In just a few pages, the joke is replaced by great sadness.

Teffi’s ‘Subtly Worded’: The Wittiest Russian Writer You’ve Never Read Will Break Your Heart 🖋️

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Sep 29

Russian literature greats: ‘The Stovemakers’ by Alexander Tvardovsky (1958) 🖋️

Teamwork helps build a stove in the USSR.

Russian literature greats: ‘The Stovemakers’ by Alexander Tvardovsky (1958) 🖋️

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Sep 19

‘A Slap in the Face of Stalinism’: Survival and Defiance in the Stories of Varlam Shalamov 🖋️

The greatest gulag writer bar none.

‘A Slap in the Face of Stalinism’: Survival and Defiance in the Stories of Varlam Shalamov 🖋️

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Aug 31

Russian literature greats: ‘Taman’ by Mikhail Lermontov (1840) ✒️

A story of a restless, morally vacant soul

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Aug 22

Russian short-story greats: ‘Peasant Women’ by Anton Chekhov (1891) ✒️

Is ‘Peasant Women’ one of Chekhov’s best stories?

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Aug 20

Russian Short Story Greats: ‘Grishka Logun’s Thermometer’ by Varlam Shalamov (1966) ✒️

Approaches to survival in the Soviet gulag

Russian Short Story Greats: ‘Grishka Logun’s Thermometer’ by Varlam Shalamov (1966) ✒️

Russian Short Story Greats

Russian Short Story Greats

Russian graduate with a passion for Russian short stories. Hoping to enthuse others with my short story recommendations and reviews.

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