Read Russian classics. Russian and foreign world classics: books (list of the best)

(Russian) - this is broad concept, and everyone puts their own meaning into it. If you ask readers what associations it evokes in them, the answers will be different. For some, this is the basis of the library collection, others will say that works of classical Russian literature are a kind of example with high artistic merit. For schoolchildren, this is everything that is studied at school. And they will all be absolutely right in their own way. So what is classical literature? Russian literature, today we will talk only about it. We will talk about foreign classics in another article.

Russian literature

There is a generally accepted periodization of formation and development Russian literature. Its history is divided into the following time periods:

What works are called classics?

Many readers are sure that classical literature (Russian) is Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy - that is, the works of those writers who lived in the 19th century. It's not like that at all. It can be classic from both the Middle Ages and the 20th century. By what canons and principles can one determine whether a novel or story is a classic? Firstly, classic must have high artistic value, be a model for others. Secondly, it must have worldwide recognition, it must be included in the fund of world culture.

And you need to be able to distinguish between the concepts of classical and popular literature. A classic is something that has stood the test of time, and oh popular work They can forget quite quickly. If its relevance remains for decades, perhaps it will also become a classic over time.

The origins of Russian classical literature

IN late XVIII century, only the established nobility of Russia split into two opposing camps: conservatives and reformers. This split was due different attitude to the changes that took place in life: Peter's reforms, understanding of the tasks of the Enlightenment, the painful peasant issue, attitude towards power. This struggle of extremes led to the rise of spirituality and self-awareness, which gave birth to Russian classics. We can say that it was forged during the dramatic processes in the country.

Classical literature (Russian), born in the complex and contradictory 18th century, was finally formed in XIX century. Its main features: national identity, maturity, self-awareness.

Russian classical literature of the 19th century

The growth of national consciousness played a major role in the development of culture at that time. More and more is opening up educational institutions, intensifies public importance literature, writers are beginning to pay a lot of attention native language. It made me think even more about what was happening in the country.

Karamzin's influence on the development of 19th-century literature

Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, the greatest Russian historian, writer and journalist, was the most influential figure in Russian culture XVIII-XIX centuries His historical stories and the monumental “History of the Russian State” had a huge influence on the work of subsequent writers and poets: Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Griboedov. He is one of the great reformers of the Russian language. Karamzin put it into use a large number of new words, without which we cannot imagine modern speech today.

Russian classical literature: list of the best works

Select and list the best literary works- a difficult task, since each reader has his own preferences and tastes. A novel that will be a masterpiece for one may seem boring and uninteresting to another. How to create a list of classic Russian literature that would satisfy the majority of readers? One way is to conduct surveys. Based on them, one can draw conclusions about which work the readers themselves consider the best of the proposed options. These types of information collection methods are conducted regularly, although the data may change slightly over time.

The list of the best creations of Russian classics, according to versions of literary magazines and Internet portals, looks like this:

Under no circumstances should you consider this list reference. In some ratings and polls, the first place may not be Bulgakov, but Leo Tolstoy or Alexander Pushkin, and some of the listed writers may not be at all. Ratings are an extremely subjective thing. It’s better to make a list of your favorite classics for yourself and focus on it.

The meaning of Russian classical literature

The creators of Russian classics have always had great social responsibility. They never acted as moralizers and did not give ready-made answers in their works. The writers presented the reader with a difficult task and forced him to think about its solution. They raised serious social and social problems, which still have for us great importance. Therefore, Russian classics remain just as relevant today.

I'll quit smoking on Monday. On next week I'll start running and join the gym. This weekend I'll clean up my room and find a job. We should do something else, right?

2019 has fallen on our shoulders. It's time to get off the couch, open your eyes, drink mineral water and finally start. I have compiled for you 2 lists of books of world and Russian literature, which you should read at least in 2016, if you have not done so earlier. Let's start, perhaps, with the “boring” Russian classics. Listen!

Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Dream of a Funny Man"

Have you also thought about suicide at least once in your life? If not, then this is not a reason to ignore Dostoevsky’s story. Everyone knows this author purely from the book “Crime and Punishment,” however, in my opinion, in order to fully understand the essence of Dostoevsky, one should start with the story “Dream” funny man" How can one understand the essence of human existence before the last shot in the head? How can you exchange paradise for world wars and hatred of your neighbor? And the main thing is how not to pull the trigger. The end of the story can be entitled with the expression “Cherchez la femme”; if you understand why, then everything was not in vain.

Anton Chekhov "Ward number 6"

Do you think Russian classics go better with a glass of vodka? I have a subjective opinion on this matter, but what about the views of Comrade Gromov? How to combine reading books, a glass of vodka, a psychiatric hospital and two brilliant people with completely different and at the same time identical views on existence in this world? This kind of oxymoron permeates the entire story about sad truth Merry Chekhov. Have you already figured out what to drink with your literature?

Evgeniy Zamyatin “We”

Evgeny Zamyatin can safely be considered the founder of the great genre of dystopia. I am sure that if you chose him, you simply must know such great dystopians as Orrwell and Huxley. If these names mean anything to you, then without even thinking, buy yourself Zamyatin and start devouring it by the tablespoonful. The construction system, coupon relations and all capital letters. Instead of people. Instead of names. Instead of life.

Leo Tolstoy "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"

On the cover of this book I would write in huge red letters: “Caution! Causes frustration, pain and awareness. Sentimental stupid people are strictly prohibited.” Forget about the hackneyed book "War and Peace", here is a completely different side of Leo Tolstoy, which is worth all the volumes of the huge novel. Trying to find deep semantic subtext in the story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, you will miss the most important thing that lies on the surface. A banal, simple truth that is accessible to everyone, eludes us every time. If you found it in the story, and also learned to live by it, my bow and white envy to you.

Ivan Goncharov "Oblomov"

Here's something, and in the novel "Oblomov" it's easier than ever to find yourself. Alas. How wonderful it is to contemplate this life from the outside, when the stupid vanity of this world passes you by. The first love, which for some reason makes you get up from the sofa, obsessive friends who are always trying to drag your lazy ass into the world - how absurd this whole “bubbling life” is. Avoid it, contemplate, think and dream, dream, dream! If you are a like-minded person with this statement, congratulations, your soul mate has been found in the main character of the novel “Oblomov”.

Maxim Gorky "Passion-face"

It was no coincidence that Gorky’s work received such symbolic name“Passion-face”, because the story is impossible to read without trembling in the knees. If you love children too much, don't read. If you are impressionable and emotional, don’t read. If girls with syphilis absolutely disgust you, don’t read. In general, don’t listen to me now, open the book and begin to be afraid of the cruel realities of this life. The social bottom, dirt, vulgarity and yet truly happy, “pure” people in children's and adults' swords about impossible happiness.

Nikolai Gogol "The Overcoat"

A small man against a huge scary society, or how to lose everything that is dear to you, even if it’s a simple overcoat. A stingy official, an unnecessary environment, little happiness in exchange for great disappointment and death as the only logical conclusion. It is through the example of Akakiy Bashmachkin that we will consider a large, weighty and significant problem of society - the theft of an overcoat.

Anton Chekhov "Man in a Case"

How do you maintain relationships with your work colleagues, classmates or friends? I would recommend one great way to improve your communication skills - come visit them and remain silent. I give you a 100% guarantee that society will be delighted with you. An umbrella in a case, a watch in a case, a face in a case. A kind of shell behind which a person tries to hide, to protect himself from the outside world. A man who even managed to stuff his sincere love into a cover and protect it not only from the object of love, but also from himself. So what about maintaining relationships? Shall we keep quiet?

Alexander Pushkin “The Bronze Horseman”

And again we meet big problem little man, only this time in Pushkin’s work “The Bronze Horseman”. Evgeny, Parasha, Peter and a love story, it would seem, what could be more ideal for the plot romantic drama? But no, this is not “Eugene Onegin”. We break love, we break the city, we break a person, we add a drop to it symbolic image bronze horseman and get the perfect recipe for one of the best poems Pushkin.

Fyodor Dostoevsky "Notes from Underground"

And closing the list of Russian classics will be the one with whom we, in fact, started - the great beloved Dostoevsky. It is no coincidence that I put “Notes from the Underground” in the final place. After all, this work is not just exciting, it is wild in places, so to speak. Increased awareness of being is a fatal disease. Activity is the lot of the limited and stupid. If you like these interpretations, then Dostoevsky will suit your taste, and if you have also humiliated prostitutes at least once in your life, then the “underground” will become your favorite place to stay.

About the 10 best foreign classic books read the second part of the list of books for 2016. Love Russian classics.

Being an active reader, I will try to take on the role of an assistant and sketch out a few ideas, compiling a list of the most recognized and most successful, from my point of view, works, both domestic and foreign literature. Most of these novels have already gained, and continue to gain, popularity, which means that these are exactly the books that you need to read in order to discover and understand this magical, mysterious and so tempting world of literature.

What to read from the classics? Relevance of the issue.

Typically, a similar question arises from those who suddenly realized the need for self-education or decided to fill in their gaps from the school course on Russian literature.

This is where it arises main difficulty. Everyone definitely wants to read something from the collection of world masterpieces. But is there even such a thing as literary masterpiece? Critics argue that there is no clear answer to this question impossible: some people like Russian literature, some like foreign ones, some read until they read, and some can’t imagine an evening without an exciting love story.

Having visited one of the large used bookstores in the capital, I asked the sellers what questions visitors most often ask. As it turns out, one of the most common requests is precisely the request for advice on what to read from the classics.

It turns out that in fact there are many people interested, literature of this kind is in demand, but low awareness sometimes scares off potential clients.

First of all, let's focus on the short stories. By the way, they should be understood as more short form presentation of current events than, for example, a story or story. This type of narration is characterized by the presence of only one storyline, and the quantity characters very limited.

I would highlight the following works:

Augustine "Treatises"
D. Swift "Gulliver's Travels"
F. Kafka "The Process"
M. de Montaigne "The Complete Essay"
N. Hawthorne "Letter to Scarlet"
G. Melville "Moby Dick"
R. Descartes "Principles of Philosophy"
Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist"
G. Flaubert "Madame Bovary"
D. Austin "Pride and Prejudice"

Aeschylus "Agamemnon"
Sophocles "The Myth of Oedipus"
Euripides "Medea"
Aristophanes "Birds"
Aristotle "Poetics"
W. Shakespeare "Richard III", "Hamlet", "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Moliere "Tartuffe"
W. Congreve "This is what they do in the world"
Henrik Johan Ibsen "A Doll's House"

Dreamers and romantics very often try to find answers to their questions in poetry. What to read from the classics in poetic genre? Many things. But I would especially highlight:

Homer "Iliad" and "Odyssey"
Horace "Odes"
Dante Alighieri's Inferno
W. Shakespeare "Sonnets"
D. Milton " Lost heaven"
W. Wordsworth "Selected"
S.T. Coleridge "Poems"

As for the works of our country, is there really nothing worthy? - Well, of course not! - If I were asked to answer the question of what to read from Russian classics, I would, of course, recommend “The Master and Margarita” by M. Bulgakov, “Mtsyri” by M. Lermontov, poetry and poems by A. Pushkin.

3. Reading masterpieces of world literature. What does this give us?

Is it worth returning to this direction or is it better and more correct to pay more attention modern works? It is very, very difficult to answer this question unambiguously.

Sometimes opinions are simply divided radically.

For example, opponents argue that it is already completely outdated, has lost its relevance, and has gradually turned into some kind of utopia. In turn, philologists and students of linguistic universities defend the masterpieces of the world epic, insisting that without studying history, culture and the intricacies of language, it is impossible to understand and comprehend our today's world.

Well, well... Each side is right in its own way... Probably everyone will agree that, say, Homer’s “Odyssey” is not the so-called pulp reading for a vacation or an empty pastime. It is difficult to read a work of this kind and you need to do it thoughtfully, slowly and without distraction, comprehending and remembering the details. Not everyone can do this.

It is precisely such books that can introduce the reader to the world of both native and foreign literature and help to better understand the traditions, culture and mentality of peoples. And they will also discover all the charm and richness of colors of the narrative language, thereby replenishing lexicon reading.

Undoubtedly, reading all the books mentioned in this article may take several years, but in any case, it will certainly not be time wasted.

Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
Rushdie's tenth novel, full of historical metaphors, touches on the important question of what came first - the East or the West. After reading a novel for any history book you look at them as if they were children’s fantasies - condescendingly and without due respect - realizing that there are no unambiguous historical truths, there are speculations and unknown quotes from someone, from which facts are subsequently formed that are bursting at the seams. George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)
Compulsory reading for all revolutionaries and revolutionary-minded comrades. In his famous dystopia, Orwell clearly demonstrates where “freedom, equality, fraternity” can lead a group of determined people, and that for any slogans there is one big “but” - the desire of some to subjugate and the readiness of others to obey. Like it or not, you draw parallels with the revolution of 1917 and everything that followed it. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871)
The triumph of the absurd, the start of the fantasy genre - and best fairy tale in the world. An amazingly powerful story about the adventures of the girl Alice, first in the rabbit hole, and then on the other side of the mirror. After two fairy tales about Alice, Carroll was called both a philosopher and a prophet, the books were disassembled into quotes, and several cartoons and films were made based on the books. Ken Kesey, Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
The main novel of the beat generation about the confrontation between a freedom-loving patient and an oppressive head nurse in a psychiatric hospital. The book is slightly different from the famous film adaptation with Jack Nicholson in leading role- the book is narrated from the perspective of one of the patients, who is relegated to the background in the film, and attention is concentrated on Nicholson’s character. The novel was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language works from 1923 to 2005. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
A wonderful story about typical American wealth of the early twentieth century - the First World War is behind us, the economy is progressing, those who profited from Prohibition are doing especially well, society is drowning in money and entertainment. Fitzgerald's hero ends up on Long Island, where he meets the cream of society and resists the abyss of parties, beautiful women and good drinks - at the head of the party movement is Gatsby, a strong and controversial personality. The best book is about how money ruins everything, and taverns and women lead you to what you know. Patrick Suskind, Perfumer. The Story of a Killer (1985)
More popular than this German novel only works by Remarque. Criminal in its essence and incredibly beautiful in its form, the story is about a man who from birth was endowed with a phenomenal sense of smell - as a result, all his life he is a slave to his gift: trying to compose and preserve the perfect aroma, he goes on a murder, one after another, and in ultimately ends tragically. Süskind perfectly conveys aromas in letters, better than, say, the creators of the film adaptation of the novel did it in 2006. Stanley Kubrick himself once thought about a film adaptation, but in the end he came to the conclusion that it was impossible to transfer Süskind’s creation to the screen - it would ruin it . J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (1954)
The film adaptation by Peter Jackson, a famous Tolkienist, is so detailed and scrupulous that, it would seem, there is no need to re-read the source. Error. Being a philologist, an expert medieval epic Northern Europe, Tolkien created his own separate world based on Finnish epic Kalevala and the legends of the Arthurian cycle (Celtic history of the British Isles). Yes, so convincingly that thousands of Tolkienists still gather somewhere in the forests and organize role-playing games. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1797)
His first and, as it became clear later, great novel Austen began writing at the age of 21 - she did not impress the publishers, and for more than 15 years she lay, as they say, under the carpet. Austen always wrote sincerely and realistically - her novels always touch the heartstrings, there is no grace or show off in them, ordinary feelings ordinary people, that is, whatever one may say, a classic. Roald Dahl, Stories with Surprise Endings (1979)
A Welshman with Norwegian roots, a master of paradoxes and something of a genius, Dahl gave us Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as well as Matilda, but he was best at shocking us with his Chekhov-like stories, with the only difference that in the end the reader, as a rule, , eyebrows sharply creep up, and his mouth breaks into an ironic smile. “I only write about what takes your breath away or makes you laugh. The children know that I’m on their side,” Dahl used to say. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1869)
It is absolutely impossible to choose one thing from all of Dostoevsky, so we settled on our favorite. Great work genius man. Dostoevsky - he is always about cleanliness vs. vice. All attempts of the infantile epileptic Prince Myshkin to become an ordinary sinful person lead to nowhere - more precisely, only to a complication of the disease. Women, money, rivalry with other men, power and other temptations have no power over Myshkin - he gradually fades towards the end of the novel, but against the backdrop of total discord in the souls of all the other characters, Myshkin is like the risen Jesus. Iain Banks, Wasp Factory (1984)
Banks' debut in literature, a gothic novel about strange boy Frank, who, as he grows up, learns both the world and himself better, and is not always happy with what he has learned. Some details in the book cause outright nausea and contribute to some kind of pubertal reflections, but in general this is the ideal postmodern in literature: a philosophical presentation, multiplied by some kind of commercial absurdity. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (1966)
If you believe Bulgakov’s widow, his last words about the novel Master and Margarita before his death were “so that they know... so that they know...”. So that WHAT they know remains a mystery. That talent is not given with impunity? That a person is a little insect with no control over the next second of his life? Be that as it may, the mystical melodrama etched itself into the consciousness of millions - we personally knew people who, after the first few chapters, walked the streets, looking around. If Bulgakov had lived in the USA, the novel would have been filmed in Hollywood during his lifetime. In the USSR, M&M became an underground outlet for the intelligentsia - however, it remains that way to this day. Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift (1938)
You can, of course, read Lolita for your next bedtime. You can grow up a little and swallow a Camera Obscura in a couple of evenings, you can even take a swing at the Luzhin Defense. But in order to go through the entire Gift, from beginning to end, not to get lost in these endless, two-page sentences, to distinguish autobiographical notes from fiction, to master the last, fourth chapter - a book within a book - only a person who needs the WORD in literature can not a matter. Jaroslav Hasek, Adventures good soldier Seamstress (1921)
The good soldier Schweik is somewhat similar to the Hollywood Forrest Gump - a kind of idiot who has a bad life, and he goes to war, and manages not to die there. Intelligent satire in the best execution - many jokes, however, are less understandable to us than to Hasek’s contemporaries, but the mockery of laziness, narrow-mindedness, drunkenness and the lack of any moral principles is obvious and timeless, because these are eternal “values”. I. Ilf, E. Petrov, 12 chairs, Golden Calf (1928)
Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov worked as literary blacks for the famous Soviet writer Valentina Kataeva: it was he who suggested that they write for him a novel about diamonds sewn into a chair, and he himself went on vacation to Batumi. Arriving some time later and reading the first six pages of the work, he first laughed like crazy, and then told Ilf and Petrov that he had no right to even stand next to these pages, that they were independent creative units - he blessed them, so to speak. What, we must say, HAPPINESS! Albert Camus, The Stranger (1948)
In the list of 100 books of the century by the French newspaper Le Monde, The Outsider comes first. Camus’s laconic (in the novel all the sentences are short, and, as a rule, in the past tense) will subsequently be borrowed by many European writers XX century. The Outsider is about loneliness and hopelessness, about searching for oneself and the meaning of one’s existence. Existentialism clean water, headache and depression. Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938)
The protagonist of the novel is sick of everything that surrounds him, and of himself - he analyzes the meaning of certain actions, discusses with himself the purpose of certain objects - the reader, observing this painstaking thankless work, begins to feel sick by the middle of the book. Nevertheless, Nausea, like any fruit of existentialism, forces us to face the truth: most of our actions have no meaning, what we create does not make us better, there is no peace in religion, there is no happiness in love, life is loneliness. Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005)
It is difficult to attribute this work to any genre. Fantastic? Dystopia? No, more like that alternative history. Children study in closed school. They grow up, prepare homework together, draw, and participate in plays. They grow up knowing that they are different from those others living outside the perimeter. Over time, they learn that their fate is to be a kind of farm for growing donor organs. And now the terrible thing begins adulthood. When Katie or her friend goes through a notch, then another, and for some, a fourth, after which the end comes. And even if they manage to prove that they are also living people, with the same feelings and even capable of love, it will still not give anything. This book is scary because it easily describes terrible things. Only one thing is unclear - why no one is fighting for their future. Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (1955)
Reading this book, you understand that Nobel Prize It was not in vain that I received Pasternak, no matter what they say. It is not the artistic level of the work that fascinates - Pasternak is more of a poet. And the plot, which describes all the vicissitudes of a huge, ruthless and completely incomprehensible war, in the very thick of which one finds himself a common person with his habits and principles. And one feels sorry for this person and feels bad for him. That he could not adapt to this new life, did not find his place. He became confused and lost all those who were close to him. Aldous Huxley, O Marvelous One, new world (1932)
This story is about a genetically programmed consumer society. Here one is born into an idyllic world and is guaranteed a life of luxury. And the other comes off the assembly line to another level and must be content with what he has. Everything here is orderly and on schedule. There is no evil or crime, there are no obligations, and marriage before 30 is considered defective. And with all this, everyone is happy with what they have and everyone is happy. With your miserable beggarly happiness. Taking into account the 30s, when Huxley created his world, the thought involuntarily creeps in: he knew something!

One can only guess to what level the outstanding Russian classic writers raised our culture; here the facts speak better than us. Museums, libraries, metro stations, squares, schools and streets in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are named after many of them. The works of Russian classics are popular all over the world; they are perceived and loved not only by Russians, but also by foreigners. Significant contribution to development Russian state classics of Russian civil law also contributed, who can be called classics of Russian civil law 19th and 20th centuries. These include V.P. Gribanov, L.A. Luntz, G.F. Shershenevich, DI. Meyer, K.P. Pobedonostsev, O.S. Ioffe et al.

List of Russian classic writers

Books call for thought, foster independent judgment, strengthen the reader’s strength and give birth to a dream:

A.A. Block.
A.I. Kuprin.
A.N. Ostrovsky.
A.P. Chekhov. Masterpieces of Anton Chekhov, describing daily life, continue to evoke delight and peace. His famous plays do not lose their relevance today; they continue to be performed on the stage of theaters.
A.S. Griboyedov.
A.S. Green. I would like to note Green's works, which tell about the romantic sublime love for beautiful women, about faithful and strong friendship. His books radiate light, they are marked by subtle sadness, purity and chastity. Green created a Miracle in his imagination, having failed to find it in life.
A.S. Pushkin. The genius Alexander Pushkin lit the way for subsequent generations for centuries to come. Through his works, the reader perceives the diversity and wisdom of this world.

V.V. Mayakovsky.
DI. Fonvizin.
I.A. Bunin.
I.A. Goncharov.
I.S. Turgenev. He wrote many novels, novels and plays, stories, increasing and enriching world literature.
K.M. Stanyukovich. The works of Konstantin Stanyukovich are also unique, who, at the insistence of his father, chose a career as a naval sailor, going to circumnavigation. The writer has seen a lot, he was promoted to midshipman, and suffered from a fever. His eventful life was reflected in his work; most of his works describe the life of the navy.
L. N. Tolstoy. Raised Russian literature to highest level writer Leo Tolstoy, whom the whole world reads. An original person, with a huge charge of energy, extremely versatile, he was able to express in his works the full depth and beauty of his own worldview.
M. A. Bulgakov.
M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin.
M.I. Sholokhov.
M. Yu. Lermontov.
Maksim Gorky. It wasn't easy life path, he has seen a lot in his lifetime. His works, which describe the real, “undisguised” lives of people, emanate strength and vital truth.
N.V. Gogol. The works of Nikolai Gogol, a writer who has entered the treasury of the world, are endowed with great power, sometimes even mystical, and beauty. classical literature.
N. A. Nekrasov.
N. G. Chernyshevsky.
N. M. Karamzin.
N. S. Leskov. He is the author of the works "Lefty", "Devil's Dolls", "The Unbaptized Priest", "The Life of a Woman", and is considered the most national author of Russia, the most Russian writer.

S.A. Yesenin.
F.I. Tyutchev.
F.M. Dostoevsky. Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the most famous and significant writers of Russia, one of the most respected Russian authors in the whole world.

The list of writers of classics of Russian literature is not limited to these most popular authors of works. Each of us can discover new books throughout our lives that the classics of Russian literature gifted us with.

The best books of Russian classics

Russian classics teach us life and wisdom. Educated, in in every sense This word can only be considered by a person who knows classical literature. For each of us there is a list of works, which includes best books Russian classics. We all love them, appreciate them, and re-read them many times.

The most popular books of Russian classics:

F. Dostoevsky “The Brothers Karamazov”. The work is one of the most complex and controversial in the writer’s work. The book is considered one of the best, which reveals the theme of the original Russian soul. In the West, this work is given Special attention. It's emotional, deep philosophical work about the eternal struggle, compassion, sin, about that fusion of contradictory feelings that engulfs the human soul.
F. Dostoevsky “Idiot”. This work is considered the most unsolved novel of the great writer. Prince Myshkin, main character books - a man who embodies Christian virtue spent a significant part of his life in solitude, and then decided to go out into the world. Faced with greed, deceit, and cruelty, he loses his bearings, and those around him call him an idiot.
L. Tolstoy “War and Peace”. An epic novel that describes the life of the Russian nobility and the war with Napoleon, which is reflected in the interconnection of events peaceful life and military actions. This is one of the outstanding books of world literature; it belongs to the treasury of timeless classics. It describes by the hand of a great master such opposite directions, collected into unity human life, such as love and betrayal, life and death, peace and war.
L. Tolstoy “Anna Karenina”. The novel describes love married woman, Anna Karenina, to the handsome officer Vronsky, which ended in tragedy. This greatest masterpiece, the topic of which is still relevant today. “Anna Karenina” is a deep, complex, psychologically sophisticated narrative, full of authenticity and drama, which women love to read.

M. Bulgakov “The Master and Margarita”. This unique, brilliant novel has no analogues. Bulgakov wrote his work over the course of 11 years. However, during his lifetime the writer never saw it published. This is mystical, the most mysterious work Russian literature. The book is world famous: many readers from all over the world want to understand its secret.
N. Gogol " Dead Souls». Immortal work author about human weaknesses, pettiness, cunning, shows the nooks and crannies of human character. Under " Dead souls"mean not only those who were redeemed main character works, but also the souls of those living people who groan under the burden of their petty interests, without realizing it.

Enjoy the great works of the classics, rejoice with their heroes, empathize with them, these books contain great power life.

Classics in the Russian province

Russia belongs to one of the most reading countries in the world. Today books are being replaced by the Internet, television, computer games to the 2nd plan. Literary event called “Classics in Russian province”, was held on June 1, covering the cities of the Association of Small tourist cities. The event was conceived to preserve the value of literature. The promotion dates back to 2014. Then, in June last year, in the city of Myshkin one could observe an amazing living picture: V merchant estate T.V. Chistov, ladies dressed in 19th-century outfits strolled leisurely, in a lordly manner. The summer breeze played with their curls, and the gentlemen, poised, walked along the ancient pavement. Played classical music, against the background of which the poems of A.S. Pushkin sounded incredibly beautiful. The festival began in such a charming way in June 2014. Thus, the classics began to sound their incessant voice again in the Russian provinces.

June 2015 continues this wonderful tradition by holding a literary event for the 2nd time. Its participants, as last year, read excerpts from works of Russian classical literature into a microphone for several hours. In honor of the anniversary of the Victory, the audience heard the work “Vasily Terkin” by A. Tvardovsky, which was included in the event program.

The action in the city of Azov took place at 3 city sites. In Kungur, excerpts from classical literature were heard in all city libraries. In Uglich, the action took place on the main city square, Uspenskaya. The participants of the celebration read out the works of M. Chekhov and O. Berggolts. In general, the number of people who participated in literary event, reached 3 thousand people. In Guryevsk on main square and in the Park of Culture and Recreation, where the event was held, book exhibitions were installed.

In total, the literary event lasted about 5 hours, imbuing the participants with the depth and beauty of classical works.

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