Curated category
Russian novels adapted into films
- Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky stood in a small room in Wiesbaden, Germany, during the summer of 1865. He owed large sums to creditors and needed money desperately to…
- The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky began writing The Brothers Karamazov in April 1878, spending nearly two years crafting the novel. He published it as a serial in The…
- Notes from UndergroundFyodor Dostoevsky announced his new work in the journal Epoch during 1864. He called it A Confession before changing the title to Notes from Underground.
- How the Steel Was TemperedNikolai Ostrovsky lived from 1904 to 1936. His life became the blueprint for his famous novel. He joined the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and lost…
- War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy began writing War and Peace in 1863, the year he married and settled at his country estate. He wrote to Elizabeth Bers asking for chronicles or…