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PoetryThe Song of Igor's CampaignСлово о полку ИгоревеAnonymous · 1185The verse account of an unsuccessful campaign by a Russian prince against the Polovtsians, in 1185, and an appeal for unity among the princes.Literature
PoetryРифмологионSimeon Polotsky · 1680not translated into EnglishThe ceremonial verses of a monk who became official poet to the tsars, gathered in a single manuscript.Literature
PoetryFelitsaФелицаGavrila Derzhavin · 1783An ode of 1782, published without the author's name the following year, in which the praise of Catherine II passes through satire of her entourage.Literature
NarrativePoor LizaБедная ЛизаNikolay Karamzin · 1792A tale of 1792 about a peasant girl and the nobleman who loves her, regarded as the first Russian sentimental short story.Literature
PoetryCatherineСветланаVasily Zhukovsky · 1813A ballad of 1813, the freest of the three Russian versions of the same German poem, offered as a wedding gift.Literature
PoetrySwan, Pike and CrawfishЛебедь, Щука и РакIvan Krylov · 1816A twelve-line fable, published in 1816, about three animals harnessed to the same load who each pull in a different direction.Literature
PoetryОпыты в стихах и прозеKonstantin Batyushkov · 1817not translated into EnglishThe 1817 collection in which a poet of thirty brings together his critical essays and his poems.Literature
TheatreWoe from WitГоре от умаAlexander Griboyedov · 1824A verse comedy from the years 1822-1824, banned from the stage during its author's lifetime, many of whose lines have become proverbs.Literature
NovelEugene OneginЕвгений ОнегинAlexander Pushkin · 1833A novel in verse written from 1823 to 1831 and published chapter by chapter, the story of a jaded dandy and a provincial girl.Literature
PoetrySilentium!Fyodor Tyutchev · 1833Eighteen lines published in 1833, in which a poet commands silence to anyone who would speak themselves, and gives his reasons.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelA Hero of Our TimeГерой нашего времениMikhail Lermontov · 1840A novel of 1840 in five tales, portrait of a disillusioned young officer in the Caucasus of his day.Literature
PoetryRhymeРифмаYevgeny Baratynsky · 1841A poem of 1841, the last piece in its author's last collection, about the poet who no longer finds an echo.Literature
NovelDead SoulsМёртвые душиNikolai Gogol · 1842A novel of 1842 that the author called a poem, the journey of a buyer of dead serfs through a Russian province.Literature
NovelWho Is to Blame?Кто виноват?Alexander Herzen · 1847A novel published in 1845-1847, the story of a young provincial couple and an educated man who cannot find his place.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreKrechinsky's WeddingСвадьба КречинскогоAlexander Sukhovo-Kobylin · 1855A comedy first staged in 1855, written in prison by a man whom the courts had held under investigation for years.LiteraturePublic domain
ChronicleA Family ChronicleСемейная хроникаSergey Aksakov · 1856A chronicle published in 1856, the story of a family of landowners, from the grandfather to the narrator's parents.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreThe StormГрозаAlexander Ostrovsky · 1859A drama in five acts first staged in 1859, in which a young married woman suffocates under the domestic law of a small town on the Volga.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelOblomovОбломовIvan Goncharov · 1859A novel published in 1859, a portrait of a landowner who cannot bring himself to leave his divan.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeFirst LoveПервая любовьIvan Turgenev · 1860A narrative of 1860 about an adolescent in love with his neighbours' daughter, one summer in the country.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelWhat Is to Be Done?Что делать?Nikolay Chernyshevsky · 1863A novel written in prison and published in 1863, which offered Russian youth a model of “new men”.LiteraturePublic domain
TaleRussian Fairy TalesНародные русские сказкиAlexander Afanasyev · 1863A Russian collection of tales from the oral tradition, published in the mid-nineteenth century and often compared to that of the Grimms.Literature
NarrativeLady Macbeth of the Mtsensk DistrictЛеди Макбет Мценского уездаNikolai Leskov · 1865A tale of 1865 about the passion of a young merchant's wife, in a small town in the Oryol region.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelCrime and PunishmentПреступление и наказаниеFyodor Dostoevsky · 1866A novel of 1866: a poor student in Saint Petersburg kills a pawnbroker to test a theory, and has to live with his act.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryRussian WomenРусские женщиныNikolay Nekrasov · 1873Two poems about wives of Decembrists who went to join their condemned husbands in Siberia, published in a journal and then collected in 1873.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelAnna KareninaАнна КаренинаLeo Tolstoy · 1878A novel in eight parts, published in a magazine in instalments, then in volume form in 1878: Anna's passion and, in counterpoint, a landowner's quest.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeThe Red FlowerКрасный цветокVsevolod Garshin · 1883A tale of 1883: in an asylum, a patient believes that three flowers in the garden contain all the evil in the world.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryВечерние огниAfanasy Fet · 1891not translated into EnglishFour collections published from 1883 to 1891, the late-life poems of a great Russian lyric poet.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe Death of the GodsСмерть богов. Юлиан ОтступникDmitry Merezhkovsky · 1895The first part of a novel trilogy, published in 1895: a fourth-century Roman emperor wants to restore paganism against Christianity.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreThe SeagullЧайкаAnton Chekhov · 1896A play in four acts first staged in 1896: on a country estate, a young author, an apprentice actress and a successful writer.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeApple FragranceАнтоновские яблокиIvan Bunin · 1900A story from 1900: autumn memories on the estates of the landed nobility, between the fruit harvest and the hunts.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryБудем как солнцеKonstantin Balmont · 1903not translated into EnglishA collection of poems published in 1903, in seven cycles placed under the sign of the sun, in the Silver Age of Russian poetry.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryUrbi et OrbiValery Bryusov · 1903not translated into EnglishA poetry collection from 1903, arranged by genre, in which the city and social misery take on a new place.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryКормчие звёздыVyacheslav Ivanov · 1903not translated into EnglishFirst verse collection, published in 1903: antiquity, Dionysus and Italy in a deliberately archaic language.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryСобрание стихов. 1889–1903Zinaida Gippius · 1904not translated into EnglishFirst collection of verse, printed in 1903 and dated 1904, by a poet of Russian Symbolism.Literature
NarrativeThe DuelПоединокAlexander Kuprin · 1905A narrative of 1905 on the life of a Russian garrison, written by a former officer who had served four years as a second lieutenant.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeThe Seven Who Were HangedРассказ о семи повешенныхLeonid Andreyev · 1908A 1908 narrative about the days leading up to the execution of seven condemned people, dedicated to Tolstoy.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeMy ChildhoodДетствоMaxim Gorky · 1914First part of the author's autobiographical trilogy, serialised in 1913-1914: a childhood in the house of a dyer grandfather.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryA Cloud in TrousersОблако в штанахVladimir Mayakovsky · 1915A long poem of 1915: a woman's refusal turns into revolt against art, society and God.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelPetersburgПетербургAndrei Bely · 1916A novel of 1916: in St Petersburg, in October 1905, a student receives a bomb meant for his father, a senior official.Literature
CinemaThe Queen of SpadesПиковая дамаYakov Protazanov · 1916A 1916 silent film based on Pushkin: an officer obsessed with a winning system at cards.Cinema
PoetryThe TwelveДвенадцатьAlexander Blok · 1918A poem of 1918 about a patrol of twelve Red Guards in revolutionary Petrograd.LiteraturePublic domain
CinemaBe Silent, My Sorrow, Be SilentМолчи, грусть... молчиPyotr Chardynin · 1918A silent melodrama from 1918: a circus performer, reduced to poverty, falls into the hands of wealthy admirers.Cinema
CinemaThe Young Lady and the HooliganБарышня и хулиганYevgeni Slavinsky · 1918A silent film of 1918 after De Amicis, written and performed by Vladimir Mayakovsky: a young thug in love with his schoolteacher.Cinema
PoetryThe Pillar of FireОгненный столпNikolay Gumilev · 1921The last collection published in the author's lifetime, which appeared in Petersburg in 1921, shortly before his execution.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe Naked YearГолый годBoris Pilnyak · 1922A novel published in 1922: a provincial town in revolutionary turmoil, in tableaux without a continuous plot.Literature
PoetryTristiaOsip Mandelstam · 1922Collection of 1922 in which Rome, Greece, the exiled Latin poet and the Petersburg of the revolutionary years answer one another.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryZangeziЗангезиVelimir Khlebnikov · 1922A dramatic poem in twenty planes, published in 1922 a few weeks after the death of its author.Literature
PoetryПсихея. РомантикаMarina Tsvetaeva · 1923not translated into EnglishA Berlin collection of 1923: the poems written in Moscow in the years after 1917.Literature
NovelChapayevЧапаевDmitry Furmanov · 1923A novel drawn from the notebooks of a political commissar sent in 1919 to the commander Chapayev.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelWeМыYevgeny Zamyatin · 1924A novel of 1920-1921, long banned in the Soviet Union: the diary of an engineer in a future totalitarian state.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe BadgersБарсукиLeonid Leonov · 1924A novel of 1924 about a peasant uprising against requisitions, in which two brothers find themselves in opposing camps.Literature
NovelCities and YearsГорода и годыKonstantin Fedin · 1924A novel of 1924: a young Russian artist caught between wartime Germany and revolutionary Russia.Literature
NovelThe Iron FloodЖелезный потокAlexander Serafimovich · 1924A story of 1924: the retreat of a Red army and its families during the civil war.LiteraturePublic domain
CinemaThe Cigarette Girl from MosselpromПапиросница от МоссельпромаYuri Zhelyabuzhsky · 1924A silent comedy from 1924: a Moscow cigarette seller, her suitors and the world of cinema, under the NEP.Cinema
NovelКюхляYury Tynyanov · 1925not translated into EnglishA novel of 1925 about a schoolmate of Pushkin's at the lyceum, a poet mocked by all and a conspirator of December.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelCementЦементFyodor Gladkov · 1925A novel of 1925 about a demobilised soldier who sets out to restart a cement works at a standstill, in the aftermath of the fighting.Literature
CinemaBattleship PotemkinБроненосец «Потёмкин»Sergei Eisenstein · 1925A silent film of 1925 about the mutiny of a Russian battleship during the first revolution, made for its twentieth anniversary.Cinema
NarrativeThe EmbezzlersРастратчикиValentin Kataev · 1926A 1926 tale about two employees who set off to spend their office's money, a satire born of a campaign against embezzlement.Literature
CinemaMotherМатьVsevolod Pudovkin · 1926Silent film of 1926 based on Gorky: a worker's mother caught between her husband and her revolutionary son, in 1905.Cinema
CinemaBy the LawПо законуLev Kuleshov · 1926A silent film of 1926 after Jack London: a couple of gold prospectors face the murderer of their companions.Cinema
NovelEnvyЗавистьYuri Olesha · 1927A novel of 1927: a man without a place, taken in by a Soviet official whom he comes to hate, in the Moscow of the twenties.Literature
CinemaThe Poet and the TsarПоэт и царьVladimir Gardin · 1927A silent film of 1927, co-directed by two filmmakers: the last days of Pushkin and his rivalry with the tsar.Cinema
CinemaBed and SofaТретья МещанскаяAbram Room · 1927A silent film of 1927: a couple and the friend they take in, crammed into one room, in the time of the housing crisis in Moscow.Cinema
NovelThe Twelve ChairsДвенадцать стульевIlya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov · 1928A 1928 novel about the hunt for a treasure hidden in a chair, across the Soviet Union of the NEP years.LiteraturePublic domain
CinemaRoad to LifeПутёвка в жизньNikolai Ekk · 1931A 1931 film, the first Soviet sound fiction film, about street children put back to work in a colony.Cinema
CinemaOutskirtsОкраинаBoris Barnet · 1933Film of 1933 about a suburb of a Russian provincial town during the First World War, between the home front and the front line.Cinema
NovelHow the Steel Was TemperedКак закалялась стальNikolai Ostrovsky · 1934A novel from 1934: a young Ukrainian worker, won over to the Bolsheviks, lives through the civil war and then the labour of the early Soviet years.LiteraturePublic domain
CinemaChapaevЧапаевGeorgi Vasilyev and Sergei Vasilyev · 1934A 1934 film based on Furmanov: a partisan leader of the civil war and the commissar assigned to oversee him.Cinema
Short storiesГолубая книгаMikhail Zoshchenko · 1935not translated into EnglishA collection of 1935 in which historical figures are told in the same tone as the quarrels of Soviet daily life, in five parts.Literature
CinemaThe Sailors of KronstadtМы из КронштадтаYefim Dzigan · 1936A 1936 film: Baltic sailors sent ashore to defend Petrograd in 1919, during the civil war.Cinema
CinemaVolga-VolgaВолга-ВолгаGrigori Aleksandrov · 1938A musical comedy of 1938: a troupe of amateurs sails down the Volga to compete in Moscow.Cinema
NovelQuiet Flows the DonТихий ДонMikhail Sholokhov · 1940A sweeping novel in four books, written from 1926 to 1940: a Don Cossack family swept up by the world war, then by the struggles between Reds and Whites.Literature
CinemaTwo SoldiersДва бойцаLeonid Lukov · 1943A 1943 film about the friendship of two soldiers during the siege of Leningrad, in which Mark Bernes sings a song that has remained famous.Cinema
CinemaBallad of SiberiaСказание о земле СибирскойIvan Pyryev · 1948A 1948 musical film in colour: a pianist wounded in the war rebuilds his life on the building sites of Siberia.Cinema
NovelThe ThawОттепельIlya Ehrenburg · 1954A 1954 narrative about the inhabitants of a factory town after Stalin's death, whose title gave its name to an era.Literature
NovelLolitaVladimir Nabokov · 1955A novel of 1955, written in English: the confession of a man obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl, in postwar America.Literature
NovelDoctor ZhivagoДоктор ЖивагоBoris Pasternak · 1957A novel completed in 1955: a poet-physician swept away, with those he loves, by war, revolution and their aftermath.Literature
CinemaThe Cranes Are FlyingЛетят журавлиMikhail Kalatozov · 1957A 1957 film about a young Muscovite whom the war separates from the man she loves.Cinema
CinemaBallad of a SoldierБаллада о солдатеGrigori Chukhrai · 1959A film of 1959 about a young soldier given six days to go and see his mother, and about his journey.Cinema
CinemaIvan's ChildhoodИваново детствоAndrei Tarkovsky · 1962Its director's first feature film, in 1962, about a twelve-year-old boy who serves as a scout during the war.Cinema
PoetryRequiemРеквиемAnna Akhmatova · 1963A cycle of poems written mostly during the Great Terror, and first published in 1963, in Munich.Literature
CinemaThere Is Such a LadЖивёт такой пареньVasily Shukshin · 1964The first film by its author, in 1964, about a lorry driver from the Altai who loves people and stories.Cinema
CinemaHamletГамлетGrigori Kozintsev · 19641964 adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, in Boris Pasternak's Russian translation.Cinema
NarrativeЖили-былиViktor Shklovsky · 1966not translated into EnglishA 1966 book of memoirs: a literary theorist recounts his life and his friends, from childhood to 1964.Literature
NovelThe Master and MargaritaМастер и МаргаритаMikhail Bulgakov · 1967A posthumous novel, published in 1967: the devil on a visit to Moscow, and the Roman prosecutor of Judea.Literature
CinemaAnna KareninaАнна КаренинаAlexander Zarkhi · 1967A colour adaptation, in 1967, of Tolstoy's novel, with Tatiana Samoilova in the role of Anna.Cinema
CinemaThe Golden CalfЗолотой телёнокMikhail Schweitzer · 1968A 1968 adaptation of a Soviet satirical novel, about a swindler set on the trail of a hidden millionaire.Cinema
NovelThe Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan ChonkinЖизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана ЧонкинаVladimir Voinovich · 1969A satirical novel first published in extracts in 1969: a soldier forgotten on guard over a broken-down aeroplane, at the beginning of the war.Literature
CinemaThe BeginningНачалоGleb Panfilov · 1970A black-and-white tragicomedy from 1970: a provincial weaver chosen to play Joan of Arc in a film.Cinema
PoetryОстановка в пустынеJoseph Brodsky · 1970not translated into EnglishCollection of 1970, printed in the United States: the first book arranged by its author, who was then living in Leningrad.Literature
CinemaTrial on the RoadПроверка на дорогахAleksei German · 1971A film shot in 1971 about a former prisoner who went over to the enemy and returns to fight with the partisans.Cinema
NarrativeMoscow StationsМосква-ПетушкиVenedikt Yerofeyev · 1973A narrative published in Jerusalem in 1973, after years of clandestine copies: the journey of a drinker on a suburban train.Literature
EssayThe Gulag ArchipelagoАрхипелаг ГУЛАГAleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1973An essay in three volumes, the first of which appeared in Paris in 1973: the Soviet concentration camp universe, told by a former prisoner.Literature
CinemaThe IslandОстровFyodor Khitruk · 1973Short animated film of 1973, without words, about a castaway whom everyone visits and whom no one rescues.Cinema
CinemaIvan Vasilievich Changes His ProfessionИван Васильевич меняет профессиюLeonid Gaidai · 1973A 1973 comedy based on a play by Bulgakov, in which a sixteenth-century tsar turns up in a Moscow flat.Cinema
NarrativeFaithful RuslanВерный РусланGeorgi Vladimov · 1975A narrative published in 1975 outside the Soviet Union: a guard dog left without a master when his camp is closed.Literature
NarrativeFarewell to MatyoraПрощание с МатёройValentin Rasputin · 1976A tale of 1976: the last months of a Siberian village doomed to disappear beneath the waters of a dam.Literature
CinemaWhite Bim Black EarБелый Бим Чёрное ухоStanislav Rostotsky · 1977A 1977 film about a dog looking for its master and about the people, good or bad, whom it meets along the way.Cinema
CinemaOffice RomanceСлужебный романEldar Ryazanov · 1977A 1977 comedy about a timid employee who sets out to seduce his boss in order to win a post.Cinema
NovelPushkin HouseПушкинский домAndrei Bitov · 1978Novel published in 1978 by an American publisher: a young philologist from Leningrad confronts the history of his family.Literature
NovelIt's Me, EddieЭто я — ЭдичкаEduard Limonov · 1979Autobiographical novel published in 1979: a Russian émigré poet, alone and without resources, lives on welfare in New York.Literature
CinemaKinРодняNikita Mikhalkov · 1981A 1981 film about a peasant woman who comes to the city to set her daughter's family straight, in her own way.Cinema
CinemaCome and SeeИди и смотриElem Klimov · 1985A war film from 1985 about a Belarusian teenager who joins the partisans during the German occupation.Cinema
CinemaKin-dza-dza!Кин-дза-дза!Georgiy Daneliya · 1986A science-fiction comedy of 1986 in which two Muscovites end up on a desert planet governed by an absurd order.Cinema
CinemaAssaАссаSergei Solovyov · 1988A 1988 film in which a young woman, her gangster lover and a musician of the underground rock scene cross paths in Yalta.Cinema
CinemaKill the DragonУбить драконаMark Zakharov · 1988A 1988 film based on a play by Evgeny Schwartz, in which a knight wants to free a city subjected to a dragon.Cinema
NovelThe Time: NightВремя ночьLudmilla Petrushevskaya · 1992A short novel of 1992: the nocturnal monologue of a grandmother who is a poet, in Moscow, at the end of the Soviet Union.Literature