Ranking Every Russian Classic I Read In 2021!!! // Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin...etc.

Hi everyone!
Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments, I’ve loved reading through them!
I just wanted to clear a couple things up…
Firstly, a lot of you are mentioning that your surprised that certain Russian classics didn’t make this list. That’s because this is a ranking of just the Russian books I read in 2021 alone! I have read other amazing Russian books (Crime and Punishment for example) in past years, which would most certainly have made this list! I love your enthusiasm, and I am so grateful to have all of your recommendations!

Secondly, it seems that a lot of you are surprised by my calling “The Overcoat” by Gogol “funny.” I did greatly sympathize with Akaky Akakievich, and felt horrible for what he went through, and how he was treated cruelly by others. I can’t really explain why, but I just found Gogol’s writing a bit humorous. This may be due to my having listened to the audiobook where the narrator expressed scenes in a certain way. After hearing/reading all your thoughts, I look forward to a physical (not audiobook) read of “The Overcoat” in the future. This way I can pay more attention to the emotional impact and not the narration/performance of the story. I hope this cleared things up!
:)
So happy to be among so many other readers who are also passionate about Russian literature!
Sending you all my best wishes,
Carolyn :)

Your choice of books and synopsys is what i like about these videos..
Not to mention you look ethreal!!😍

Master and Margarita that's the book everyone should read, it will blow your mind. Also a few big books by Dostoevsky also must read.

I love her voice best very calm

You gotta try Dostoevsky's Masterpieces: The Idiot, Demon's, Crime & Punishment, Brother's Karamazov.

why is fuckin crime and punishment not here T-T

Она так похожа на девушек из викторианской Англии❤

Здесь должны быть и русские комментарии )

I love your enthusiasm too.

I just bought the translation by Rosamund Bartlett which was recommended by a Russian friend

I'm Russian and I decided to reread some of these books after your video. Thank you very much

I swear by Dead Souls. But it doesn't translate well into English, and it's difficult reading in Russian for a non-native reader of Russian, because Gogol uses a lot of obscure and obsolete words.

I’m Russian, and I agree that Joe Wright’s adaptation of Anna Karenina with Kiera Knightley is one of the best❤

“Hero of our time” was my first book, that I read with pleasure, because our Russian school forced us to read them a lot and I though they are boring and always read them in briefly, just to know and answer at school. I have never thought that it would be that good. Omg, since than I am truly in love with Russian literature and literature in general ;) ♥️

PeChorin) not Pecorin)

I suppose you didn’t really enjoy “woe from wit” just because it’s a book of classism and not realism or romantisme. It was created with many rules that made it not top realistic. The character are mostly not complicated and interesting.
I see “woe from wit” as a great book for its time, but not for now.
Sorry for my English, I am from Russia so I have probably made some mistakes 😅❤️

Dead Souls - The Master and Margarita

as a Chekhov fan i strongly recommend to read Black Monk, Kashtanka and Drama on the hunt! Would love to know your review on these! good ranking btw! totally agreed with you! :)

Interesting that a translation of poetry still came out brilliantly in regard to your favorite one of the year

комментарий в поддержку продвижения ролика.

какая славная девушка с красивым голосом.

Good Lord, you are lovely… And I also love Russian literature… I guess today is the luckiest day of my life

I read the double and the poor folk and i didn't love any of them ,
Then i read notes from underground, and i enjoyed it ... I still want to read more from Dostoevsky,but I don't have high hopes anymore. Maybe his novels are just not for me

In "Woe from Wit" Griboedov (Mushroomeater - ov:)) used a lot of word combinations, which after transformed into very popular aphorisms in russian language. Story in "WfW" is weak.

Kolyma tales are a heart breaking, very difficult read about Syberia.
On the entirely diifferent side I'd recommend you reading Generation P by V.Pielewin. A fantastic book, different than anything I've ever read.

You really like butchering books

"Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy is like putting before Russia as a government the choice between the Holy Bible and prison systems which obviously communism was going to adopt for millions of their population.

"A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"An Island Hell" by S.A. Malsagoff
"The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: an Experiment in Literary Investigation" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy
"Kolyma Tales" by Varlam Shalamov

Aside from the confession that Christianity influences the world for good even if you don't believe in it, these books are the prison system of Russia as it became what over half of the Russian population experienced directly and "An Island Hell" was from the time of Lenin while the others are from the time of Stalin. Stalin slew 65 million of his own population under him. He was only surpassed by Mao slaying 104 million of his own Chinese people in communism as well. Hitler only slew 56 million, but obviously unchecked he could have surpassed these two and so thankfully WWII was ended by the allies.

TOP 10 BOOKS
0) "The Holy Bible: King James Version" copyright 1967
1) "Verbal Behavior" by Dr. B. F. Skinner
2) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
3) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev
5) Myth Adventures - series by Robert Asprin
6) The Chronicles of Narnia - series by C. S. Lewis
7) "Vilette" by Charlotte Brontë
8) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
9) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
10) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev

A day in the life of Ivan ivanovich by Solzhenitsyn was my introduction to Siberia. Beautiful but brutal all at once

Удивительно, как много книг может вместиться в одну маленькую женщину.) Рекомендую ознакомиться с "Мертвым домом" Достоевского, на мой взгляд, это лучшая его книга , а , может, и всего 19 века, ( как и на взгляд Толстого). А также рекомендую к прочтению "Доктор Живаго" Бориса Пастернака и "Тихий Дон" Михаила Шолохова - кстати, лауреата Нобелевской премии.

I hated Russian classic literature when I was a student in a Soviet school. 😀

Впервые в своей жизни слышу, чтобы кто-то называл "Шинель" забавной историей.

I know my comment isn’t related to the books you talked about but I would love to hear you speak Italian or make a book review video in Italian ❤

You are such a good storyteller. 🥰🥰

I know the book I am about to recommend is not a classic, but I would suggest you read it anyway! It’s “Vita Nostra” written by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko! It’s one of my favourite books ever.

the puppy 🥺 so so cute~ thank you for the recommendation!

Hi, I'm reading Devils right now and I was thinking maybe a way we can relate to it, is to see the similarity between the ideas and philosophy of the revolution and postmodernism.

The film "The Heart of a Dog" based on Bulgakov's book was shot in Russia. This is the rare case when a film is as much a masterpiece as a book. Very funny and smart. I highly recommend

after reading quite a bit of the best the only author coming close to Shakespeare is Walter Arnd'ts translation of Faust Part 2, Act 5. Was this brilliance Goethe or Arndt? I mention this here as I suspect that Arndt's Eugene Onegin is most probably a (large) cut above the rest, and with this young lady's recommend of the book Arndt's Onegin will be a project of mine for 2023. Arndt is known by a few and should be known by far more as a brilliant translator and poet.

Am listening to audiobook of 'Anna Karenina', 31 CDs, read by Lorna Raver-- she does an amazing job!

Please read Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak and Master and Margarita. As a final boss, there is this book, Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoyevsky. It might be the greatest book ever written. It is in my opinion

Your hair is so beautiful

NIce collection but except for Onegin, pretty superficial expositions. Saying you are not "connected" doesn't tell us anything. Same for rifling through lots of pages. Why not expound on some of the highlights and marginalia to show use what exactly you like or dislike about a book and why?

first time on your videos, its a big pleasure, you have a lovely personality

i have a question for you, did you read Dostoievski's The Idiot? What do you think about it,
i'm just have finished this book and i'm in some kind of shock, i think its a brilliant yet brutal book

I love finding another lover of Russian literature. If you're at all interested in. Russian history as well, I cannot recommend Robert K. Massie enough, especially Nicholas and Alexandra. I started reading Russian history after I fell in love with Russian literature while doing an author study of Dostoyevsky in high school. I'm sure you've already done so since this is an old video, but Crime and Punishment is my absolute favorite book. I'm about a third of the way through Brothers Karamazov so I can't fully recommend it yet. Happy reading!