I love the contrast of Leskov writing "fancy" and in ana academic style but about regular people, versus Tolstoy writing in a simple style but about the aristocracy!
I have been interested in 19 and 20th century Russian culture since Reading the nonfiction book "State within a State" Also I have enjoyed reading Dostoevsky. The Idiot and the Brother's Karimosov were my favorite. I first got interested with Crime and Punishment. Your description and summary of the authors of these books are just been incredible and inspiring for anybody to read these or at least for me thank you very much. I read Anna Karenina too and loved the descriptions of settings and scenes there.
So many new to me Russian classics! Thanks for sharing this! They all sound like books worth reading and having in my library! Edit: These editions are gorgeous!
I started reading Dostoyevski in high school with his novellas and short stories, such as Krotka. My favorite of the ones you have is Slabo srce or Weak heart.Brings so many memories. I like these editions :)
I just start watching your videos. Really like your book collection tour and I really appreciate this haul about russian writers ! I got a lot of book recomendations!📚
Master and Margarita is my all time favourite ❤️I need it in this edition too (no, I don't speak Russian 😁) I've already bought a book by Leskov and Likhachov sounds very interesting. Love it when you talk about Russian classics ❤️👍
Wonderful, wonderful Video….thanks so much. Been keen on Russian writing for many years and now you mention new writers I’ve never heard of! How exciting!! Always enjoyed the well known onesbut OBLOMOV has always had special place in my heart. It is so funny and perplexing as well as enjoyable. Read it first 50 years and have always kept a copy on my shelves. Thank you so much for all you put in to your videos. I love that you mention the size and spacing of the font in your book reviews…so helpful!! Enjoying the translations by Alma classics. Their Anna Karenina is great!!👍
Thank you very much for your comment! I'm so glad to hear you enjoy Russian classics! I need to re-read Oblomov asap I remember only the main plot vaguely. :)
I enjoyed this very impressive book haul. After you fit all of these onto your bookshelves, it would be interesting to see another bookshelf tour. One of your new books is in my collection (translated to English in an Oxford World Classics edition): Anton Chekhov’s The Steppe And Other Stories. My favorite of these stories is an atypical one called “The Bet”.
I'm planning on filming a bookshelf tour maybe in December or January. We'll see. This video takes a really long time both to film and to edit so I'll probably keep it for the end of the year. I'm looking forward to Checkhov and all of these books really I'm glad you like his short stories!
I cannot believe all of the things Dmitry Likhachov experienced! Imagine getting out of prison just to experience that siege. That edition of the Master and Margherita is beautiful! I have always been so intimidated by that one. You have added so many things to my TBR! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on all of these! 🌸 Edit: I have to order a copy of Leskov after your description of his writing style!
I know. But the 20th century in Russia was very tremulous many people, including writers, had hard lives. The Siege of Leningrad was really scary though. There was no food and people had to eat dirt, a daily portion of bread was the size of a box of matches, and that brad was very poor quality too a lot of terrifying things like that. I have no idea how people survived this. He must have been a very strong person. We also call him "the conscience of our nation" because of his strong morals. I very curious about Leskov myself. We could buddy read him after A Place of Greater Safety if you'd like to. :)
I am a new subscriber and love your choice of Russian literature and your lively presentation. Would it be possible, please, for you to list the titles of the books so that we can refer back to them quickly? That would be great and very helpful. Are there also any translations you particularly prefer of Russian classics in terms of a respectful rendition of the writing style as well as the plot's inner tensions? Am very much looking forward to your next batch of novels/plays/poems/non-fiction! Thank you so much. All the best from the UK and take care, Anabel
@@annabee4497 Hello! I've just added a list of all the mentioned books to the description box. So you can see it now :) As for the translations, I've never read Russian classics in English translations, as I always read them in Russian, so, unfortunately, I can't recommend or say anything about the translations.
@@bookishtopics Thank you so much. you are so kind and so prompt in doing so. Wow. Sorry, that was a silly question about the translations. Perhaps someone else can advise? Carry on inspiring us with more Russian books suggestions from your own experiences. We never hear enough of the less well-known. Thank you.
Only just discovered your site today, absolute joy being a Russian Literature fan. Of more modern literature I recommend "Death and The Penguin" by Andrey Kurkov and the follow-up "Penguin Lost".
I'm from Serbia and we read a lot of Russian classics in school. I loved them! I'm currently obsessed with Solzhenytsin :D Those editions are beautiful!!! I plan on reading Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky in Serbian and English and compare translations, should be fun. I definitely need to check your other videos, this just popped up on my main page.
I read Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward earlier this year and absolutely loved it! I haven't read Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground. Maybe it'll be on my next year's tbr :) I hope you'll enjoy it! Comparing translations is definitely very interesting! I tried comparing English translations of the Idiot to the Russian original, I've definitely learned a lot of English by doing that. :) It was fun:)
@@bookishtopics A few people told me that Cancer Ward is good, that will be my next one then, I already own it :) That’s awesome that you compared original and English too. I was also going to do that with some Serbian books. And forgot to mention, I loved A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov.
What a fabulous haul! I’ve started a list as there’s many authors there I’ve never heard of. I do have The enchanted wanderer out from my library currently- it’s quite the chunkster isn’t it! I also love Chekhov’s plays- I did a theatre degree many years ago and we studied many of his plays- he’s one of my favourite playwrights xx
I have to read all my Russian literature in translation. My Russian is quite basic and not fluent enough to read in the original language. Could you talk about the best translations for these works. I would love your opinion since you also read and understand in the original language. This would be helpful to understand whose translations are most reflective of the original intent of the author. Thank you in advance.
I plan to do something like that. I am now trying to prepare such a video about The Idiot by Dostoevsky, but it'll take some time as I need to read or at least look through these translations myself. Thank you for the idea :)
много русской классики 📚 Bunin won the Noble Prize for literature in 1933 (he was exiled in France at the time). Other Russian winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature were Boris Pasternak (1958), Mikhail Sholokov (1965), Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1970) and Joseph Brodsky (1987).
Informative list of Russians who won Nobel Prizes for literature. Just for your information, however, you need to use genitive plural, not genitive singular, after много so it should be много русских классик just as you might state with equal conviction много красивых девушек в странах бывшего Советского Союза))
Can you tell me where do you buy these russian books? Because here in italy it's almost impossible to find where to buy books in russian. Thanks! Awesome edition by the way!
I bought them from www.labirint.ru/ the delivery though was really expensive pretty much the price of the books. But there was no other option so I bought it.
This video popped up on my feed and I’m so glad it did! You have really inspired me to pick up some more Russian classics and I’m looking forward to watching your videos past and future. Thank you 😊 p.s those editions are stunning 😍
These are so pretty! I need to learn Russian just so I can get these! I've only read Lev Tolstoy and Dostoevsky so far, but really love them. Looking forward to exploring more and I will definitely look up some of these authors and books!
The beauty of these editions is that they're so cheap. In dollars, they are about 2 - 4 dollars for paperbacks and 5 - 6 dollars for hardbacks :D Russian books are generally much cheaper than books in the west but these ones are really cheap even by Russian standards. 📚
@@CourtneyReads it really is! And yes, they're quite good. The paper is similar to penguin paperbacks. And they look gorgeous on the bookshelf all next to each other :)
Hi Tanya! What an amazing stack of books, I'm so excited for you! Can you share the Russian shop you ordered these from? I'm based in Germany, and at the only major Russian shop we've got here, Russian classics are often sold out if you don't place your order quickly enough. So, I'm on the lookout for another one which has good classics. Thank you for the vid! 😄
Is there any way that we can buy this edition online? Also have you read about the Young Doctor's Notebook of Evergreen Classics? What do you think about it?
I buy them from a Russian online bookstore it's called Лабиринт (Labyrinth) If you want to browse you need to search the Russian name in Google. If you search in English it will give you a different shop.
Could you please tell us the name of the edition? It’s so beautiful. I’ve read Dshamilja by Aitmatow in German :) There are a lot of German translations of Russian literature which is due to the fact that Germany was divided in East and West after WWII. I often find copies in free libraries and I always take them. Russian literature is beautiful.
They are called Эксклюзивная классика (exclusive classics). They unfortunately only print in the Russian language. But they are so cheap and affordable and look so good on the shelf! I love them. That's cool that many books are translated into German! I was worried that I'd be showing books that people couldn't actually read because there wasn't a translation, but it seems not to be an issue. So that's wonderful :)
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Don't forget Boris Akunin ,another great video ,thumbs up
So many great recommendations. Thanks for sharing 👍😊
Thank you!
I appreciate all the extra info!! Keep it up!! Beautiful editions.
Thank you!
I love the contrast of Leskov writing "fancy" and in ana academic style but about regular people, versus Tolstoy writing in a simple style but about the aristocracy!
I have been interested in 19 and 20th century Russian culture since Reading the nonfiction book "State within a State" Also I have enjoyed reading Dostoevsky. The Idiot and the Brother's Karimosov were my favorite. I first got interested with Crime and Punishment. Your description and summary of the authors of these books are just been incredible and inspiring for anybody to read these or at least for me thank you very much. I read Anna Karenina too and loved the descriptions of settings and scenes there.
So many new to me Russian classics! Thanks for sharing this! They all sound like books worth reading and having in my library! Edit: These editions are gorgeous!
So many books I didn't know of before. Thanks for sharing the haul, I'm off to browse Russian classics now
I hope you give some of them a read and will really enjoy them!
I started reading Dostoyevski in high school with his novellas and short stories, such as Krotka. My favorite of the ones you have is Slabo srce or Weak heart.Brings so many memories. I like these editions :)
I just start watching your videos. Really like your book collection tour and I really appreciate this haul about russian writers ! I got a lot of book recomendations!📚
Thank you! I'm glad it was interesting! :)
This video makes me want to learn Russian, those editions are lovely! **gets on duolingo to learn Russian**
Master and Margarita is my all time favourite ❤️I need it in this edition too (no, I don't speak Russian 😁) I've already bought a book by Leskov and Likhachov sounds very interesting. Love it when you talk about Russian classics ❤️👍
I hope you love them! Let me know what you think of them once you read them! 😍
I've never read any Russian literature and I am kind of scared too lol but this video got me excited about trying it!
I know the words "Russian Literature" can sound daunting but the rewards are great. Try Tolstoy's short stories as a gentle introduction. Good luck.
I find them stunning and enriching. I hope you give them a try. I think their amazing. Nothing to be scared of 🙂
I started The Idiot last week. Love it so far
A new video from Tanya. I live for these moments 🤩 I don’t read Russian but oh my, I want these editions 😍
Wonderful, wonderful Video….thanks so much. Been keen on Russian writing for many years and now you mention new writers I’ve never heard of! How exciting!! Always enjoyed the well known onesbut OBLOMOV has always had special place in my heart. It is so funny and perplexing as well as enjoyable. Read it first 50 years and have always kept a copy on my shelves. Thank you so much for all you put in to your videos. I love that you mention the size and spacing of the font in your book reviews…so helpful!! Enjoying the translations by Alma classics. Their Anna Karenina is great!!👍
Thank you very much for your comment! I'm so glad to hear you enjoy Russian classics! I need to re-read Oblomov asap I remember only the main plot vaguely. :)
Loved this haul. I found so many new books to check out!
I enjoyed this very impressive book haul. After you fit all of these onto your bookshelves, it would be interesting to see another bookshelf tour.
One of your new books is in my collection (translated to English in an Oxford World Classics edition): Anton Chekhov’s The Steppe And Other Stories. My favorite of these stories is an atypical one called “The Bet”.
I'm planning on filming a bookshelf tour maybe in December or January. We'll see. This video takes a really long time both to film and to edit so I'll probably keep it for the end of the year.
I'm looking forward to Checkhov and all of these books really I'm glad you like his short stories!
I cannot believe all of the things Dmitry Likhachov experienced! Imagine getting out of prison just to experience that siege. That edition of the Master and Margherita is beautiful! I have always been so intimidated by that one. You have added so many things to my TBR! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on all of these! 🌸 Edit: I have to order a copy of Leskov after your description of his writing style!
I know. But the 20th century in Russia was very tremulous many people, including writers, had hard lives. The Siege of Leningrad was really scary though. There was no food and people had to eat dirt, a daily portion of bread was the size of a box of matches, and that brad was very poor quality too a lot of terrifying things like that. I have no idea how people survived this. He must have been a very strong person. We also call him "the conscience of our nation" because of his strong morals.
I very curious about Leskov myself. We could buddy read him after A Place of Greater Safety if you'd like to. :)
I am a new subscriber and love your choice of Russian literature and your lively presentation. Would it be possible, please, for you to list the titles of the books so that we can refer back to them quickly? That would be great and very helpful. Are there also any translations you particularly prefer of Russian classics in terms of a respectful rendition of the writing style as well as the plot's inner tensions? Am very much looking forward to your next batch of novels/plays/poems/non-fiction! Thank you so much. All the best from the UK and take care, Anabel
@@annabee4497 Hello! I've just added a list of all the mentioned books to the description box. So you can see it now :)
As for the translations, I've never read Russian classics in English translations, as I always read them in Russian, so, unfortunately, I can't recommend or say anything about the translations.
@@bookishtopics Thank you so much. you are so kind and so prompt in doing so. Wow. Sorry, that was a silly question about the translations. Perhaps someone else can advise? Carry on inspiring us with more Russian books suggestions from your own experiences. We never hear enough of the less well-known. Thank you.
Only just discovered your site today, absolute joy being a Russian Literature fan. Of more modern literature I recommend "Death and The Penguin" by Andrey Kurkov and the follow-up "Penguin Lost".
Oh, I've never heard of neither the book nor the author! Thank you very much for the recommendation I'll definitely check it out!
I'm from Serbia and we read a lot of Russian classics in school. I loved them! I'm currently obsessed with Solzhenytsin :D Those editions are beautiful!!! I plan on reading Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky in Serbian and English and compare translations, should be fun. I definitely need to check your other videos, this just popped up on my main page.
I read Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward earlier this year and absolutely loved it! I haven't read Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground. Maybe it'll be on my next year's tbr :) I hope you'll enjoy it! Comparing translations is definitely very interesting! I tried comparing English translations of the Idiot to the Russian original, I've definitely learned a lot of English by doing that. :) It was fun:)
@@bookishtopics A few people told me that Cancer Ward is good, that will be my next one then, I already own it :) That’s awesome that you compared original and English too. I was also going to do that with some Serbian books. And forgot to mention, I loved A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov.
@@ABlurbFromTheSerb would love to know where you got dostoyevski in Serbian from? I am in AUS and would love to buy some of his books in Serb
What a fabulous haul! I’ve started a list as there’s many authors there I’ve never heard of. I do have The enchanted wanderer out from my library currently- it’s quite the chunkster isn’t it! I also love Chekhov’s plays- I did a theatre degree many years ago and we studied many of his plays- he’s one of my favourite playwrights xx
Loved to learn all those books!
Hello, Dear Sister. Blessings.
Wonderful haul! Thank you for providing so much information on the authors! It was a great video. I need these editions now! They are gorgeous!
I have to read all my Russian literature in translation. My Russian is quite basic and not fluent enough to read in the original language. Could you talk about the best translations for these works. I would love your opinion since you also read and understand in the original language. This would be helpful to understand whose translations are most reflective of the original intent of the author. Thank you in advance.
I plan to do something like that. I am now trying to prepare such a video about The Idiot by Dostoevsky, but it'll take some time as I need to read or at least look through these translations myself. Thank you for the idea :)
много русской классики 📚 Bunin won the Noble Prize for literature in 1933 (he was exiled in France at the time). Other Russian winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature were Boris Pasternak (1958), Mikhail Sholokov (1965), Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1970) and Joseph Brodsky (1987).
Informative list of Russians who won Nobel Prizes for literature. Just for your information, however, you need to use genitive plural, not genitive singular, after много so it should be много русских классик just as you might state with equal conviction много красивых девушек в странах бывшего Советского Союза))
Can you tell me where do you buy these russian books? Because here in italy it's almost impossible to find where to buy books in russian. Thanks! Awesome edition by the way!
I bought them from www.labirint.ru/ the delivery though was really expensive pretty much the price of the books. But there was no other option so I bought it.
This video popped up on my feed and I’m so glad it did! You have really inspired me to pick up some more Russian classics and I’m looking forward to watching your videos past and future. Thank you 😊 p.s those editions are stunning 😍
These are so pretty! I need to learn Russian just so I can get these! I've only read Lev Tolstoy and Dostoevsky so far, but really love them. Looking forward to exploring more and I will definitely look up some of these authors and books!
The beauty of these editions is that they're so cheap. In dollars, they are about 2 - 4 dollars for paperbacks and 5 - 6 dollars for hardbacks :D Russian books are generally much cheaper than books in the west but these ones are really cheap even by Russian standards. 📚
@@bookishtopics that is a good price! And they seem very good quality too.
@@CourtneyReads it really is! And yes, they're quite good. The paper is similar to penguin paperbacks. And they look gorgeous on the bookshelf all next to each other :)
Hi Tanya! What an amazing stack of books, I'm so excited for you!
Can you share the Russian shop you ordered these from? I'm based in Germany, and at the only major Russian shop we've got here, Russian classics are often sold out if you don't place your order quickly enough. So, I'm on the lookout for another one which has good classics.
Thank you for the vid! 😄
Hello! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I order books from Лабиринт. Their website is www.labirinth.ru
@@bookishtopics Thank you so much!
Is there any way that we can buy this edition online?
Also have you read about the Young Doctor's Notebook of Evergreen Classics? What do you think about it?
What shop did you buy it from?
I buy them from a Russian online bookstore it's called Лабиринт (Labyrinth) If you want to browse you need to search the Russian name in Google. If you search in English it will give you a different shop.
Could you please tell us the name of the edition? It’s so beautiful.
I’ve read Dshamilja by Aitmatow in German :)
There are a lot of German translations of Russian literature which is due to the fact that Germany was divided in East and West after WWII. I often find copies in free libraries and I always take them. Russian literature is beautiful.
They are called Эксклюзивная классика (exclusive classics). They unfortunately only print in the Russian language. But they are so cheap and affordable and look so good on the shelf! I love them.
That's cool that many books are translated into German! I was worried that I'd be showing books that people couldn't actually read because there wasn't a translation, but it seems not to be an issue. So that's wonderful :)
It’s AitmaTov
I read Oblomov in university.I didn't care
for it either
He's a strange character 100% :D