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Russian Classics

Verse romance, bitter consciousness, and the weight of freedom.

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  1. Step 1 · Onegin

    Eugene Onegin

    Alexander Pushkin

    Youth, boredom, and a fatal letter in verse

  2. Step 2 · Underground

    Notes from Underground

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Spite, reason, and the underground man's confession

  3. Step 3 · The Village

    The Village

    Ivan Bunin

    Bunin’s bleak portrait of rural Russia