Alexander Pushkin

The Russian Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 12 classic novels and short stories by Russian authors, read by an award-winning cast of narrators.

Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men....

Pushkin began writing his first major work, Ruslan and Ludmila (1820), a kind of fairy story in verse, in 1817. It was based on Russian folktales told by his old nurse Arina Rodionovna....

This book collects a magnificent set of works by Russian classical authors: Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Leo...

Evgenii Onegin is best known in the West through Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin. But the original narrative poem is one of the landmarks of Russian literature....

This original compilation from Skyboat Media features the most inventive and poetic of Alexander Pushkin’s short fiction. Exposed to French culture at a young age, Pushkin’s work reflects these sensibilities....

This novel in verse, said to be the parent of all Russian novels, is a tragic story of innocence, love, and friendship. Eugene Onegin, an aristocrat, the countryside where the passionate Tatyana....

Eugene Onegin is young, handsome, rich ... and bored. When his uncle dies, leaving him his rundown estate, Eugene moves to the countryside. Here he meets the lively and intelligent Lensky, and the beautiful, quiet Tatyana.

The ultimate collection of great short stories by the best Russian classic authors....

In this timeless Russian classic, the charismatic but aloof Eugene Onegin rejects love, friendship, and opportunity in favor of cynicism and self-isolation. When he returns to his rural estate, he crosses paths with the idealistic Tatyana, who falls deeply in love with him.

Есть на этом свете чудеса! И в одном из чудес- конечно, сказки Пушкина: такие удивительные, такие ЖИВЫЕ, наивно-волшебные, правдиво-реалистичные....

Russian literature exudes an atmosphere of mysticism, which is said to be a natural result of the simplicity of her people....

What would you trade for the secret to unimaginable fortune? In Alexander Pushkin's The Queen of Spades, an ambitious young officer becomes ...

Love has many forms, many needs. Some fall into the dark, into the shadows. Forbidden love has connotations of desire, of possession but also of matters far more unsavoury. It’s a delicate facet of love that our classic authors explain with careful words and superbly crafted narratives.

Pushkin’s story of thwarted love is set in Russia of the early years of the C19th. In verse at once satiric and penetrating, it tells the tale of a bored young man and the country girl, brought up on romantic novels, whose love he rejects. His behavior leads indirectly to tragedy....

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere.

The novel opens with a picture of morals and manners of the French society of the 18th century; with the Negro's success in French society, and his love affair with a French countess....

A Russian author and poet of the Romantic era, Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is widely regarded as the father of modern Russian literature....

V "Malen'kih tragedijah", kotorye sostavili chetyre dramaticheskih sceny: "Skupoj rycar'", "Mocart i Sal'eri", "Kamennyj gost'" i "Pir vo vremja chumy"....

"The Queen of Spades" is the best known and probably the best of all Russian short stories....