7 best short stories – Russian authors:

7 best short stories – Russian authors –

Russian literature golden age was in the 19th century, when talents like Tolstoy flourished. Russian authors have significantly contri­buted to numerous literary genres. Russia has five Nobel Prize in lite­rature laureates. As of 2011, Russia was the fourth largest book producer in the world in terms of published titles. A popular folk saying claims Russians are “the world’s most reading nation”.

Literary critic August Nemo has selected the following short stories for this book:
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol;
The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin;
God Sees The Truth, But Waits by Leo Tolstoy;
The Bet by Anton Chekhov;
The Christmas Tree And The Wedding by Fyodor Dostoyevsky;
One Autumun Night by Maxim Gorky;
Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev.