Russian literature

Russian literature is the body of poetry, prose, and drama written in Russian, including works produced in Russia and Russian-speaking communities elsewhere.

Eugene Onegin: Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel follows a disillusioned aristocrat and the people whose lives he alters. Its conversational verse and social portrait helped establish modern Russian literary language.
Old East Slavic literature: The medieval literary tradition written in Old East Slavic across the lands of Kievan Rus’. It provides the medieval background from which later Russian writing developed.
Socialist realism: An officially promoted artistic method depicting society through a socialist, optimistic, and politically instructive perspective. It became the dominant prescribed method for Soviet writers.
Nikolai Gogol: A Russian-language writer whose fiction and plays combine social satire, the grotesque, and the fantastic. His comic distortions influenced later Russian prose and critical debate.
Ukrainian literature: The body of literary works written in Ukrainian across historical periods and communities. Its distinct language and history clarify the difference between Russian and neighboring literary traditions.
Dead Souls: Nikolai Gogol’s unfinished novel follows Pavel Chichikov’s scheme to buy the names of deceased serfs. Its grotesque satire made provincial Russia a landmark setting for the Russian novel.
The Tale of Igor's Campaign: A medieval epic poem recounting Prince Igor’s failed campaign against the Cumans. This celebrated early work connects Russian literary memory to Kievan Rus’.
Glavlit: The Soviet state agency responsible for censoring publications and controlling access to information. Its reviews constrained what Russian-language works could be published in the USSR.
Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Russian novelist known for psychologically intense fiction about morality, faith, freedom, and social conflict. His novels made moral argument and divided consciousness central to Russian fiction.
Belarusian literature: The body of literary works written in Belarusian, shaped by Belarusian history and culture. It distinguishes Belarusian-language writing from Russian-language works in the region.

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