Russia

11C-17C: Medieval

• (ANONYMOUS)
  • Novgorod Icons (11C-15C)
• RUBLEV Andrei
  • Trinity (c. 1411)

18C: Neoclassicism

• LOSENKO Anton
  • Vladimir and Rogneda (1770)

19C: Romanticism

• AIVAZOVSKY Ivan
  • The Ninth Wave (1850)

19C: Realism

• IVANOV Alexander
  • The Appearance of Christ Before the People (1837-57)
• PEROV Vasily
  • Troika (1866)
• REPIN Ilya
  • Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870-73)
  • Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885)
• SURKOV Vasily
  • Boyarina Morozova (1887)

20C: Avant-Garde

• KANDINSKY Wassily
  • Composition VII (1913)
• MALEVICH Kazimir
  • Black Square (1915)
• TATLIN Vladimir
  • Monument to the Third International (1920)

20C: Socialist Realism

• GERASIMOV Aleksandr
  • Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin (1938)

19C: Romanticism

• BORODIN Alexander
  • Prince Igor (1890)
• MUSSORGSKY Modest
  • Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)
  • Boris Godunov (1874)
• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Nikolai
  • Scheherazade (1888)
• TCHAIKOVSKY Pyotr Ilyich
  • Swan Lake (1877)
  • Eugene Onegin (1879)
  • The Nutcracker (1892)

20C: Modernism

• PROKOFIEV Sergei
  • Romeo and Juliet (1935)
  • Peter and the Wolf (1936)
• STRAVINSKY Igor
  • The Firebird (1910)
  • Petrushka (1911)
  • The Rite of Spring (1913)

20C: Soviet

• SHOSTAKOVICH Dmitri
  • Symphony No. 5 (1937)
  • String Quartet No. 8 (1960)

11C-17C: Medieval

• (ANONYMOUS)
  • Primary Chronicle (c. 1113)
  • The Tale of Igor’s Campaign (c. 12C)

18C: Enlightenment

• KARAMZIN Nikolai
  • History of the Russian State (1818-29)
• LOMONOSOV Mikhail
  • Russian Grammar (1755)

19C: Golden Age; Romanticism, Realism

• CHEKHOV Anton | drama
  • The Seagull (1896)
  • Uncle Vanya (1899)
  • Three Sisters (1901)
  • The Cherry Orchard (1904)
  • Plays
• DOSTOEVSKY Fyodor | realism
  • White Nights (1848)
  • Notes from Underground (1864)
  • Crime and Punishment (1866)
  • Demons (1872)
  • The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
• GRIBOYEDOV Alexander | drama
  • Woe from Wit (1833)
• LERMONTOV Mikhail | romanticism
  • A Hero of Our Times (1840)
• GOGOL Nikolai | realism
  • Dead Souls (1842)
• PUSHKIN Alexander | romanticism
  • The Queen of Spades (1834)
  • The Captain’s Daughter (1836)
  • Selected Poetry
• TOLSTOY Leo | realism
  • War and Peace (1869)
  • Anna Karenina (1878)
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
  • Resurrection (1899)
• TURGENEV Ivan | realism
  • Mumu (1854)
  • Fathers and Sons (1862)

Silver Age Literature (1890s-1920s)
(Socialist Realism / Émigré Literature)

• BERDYAEV Nikolai
  • The Meaning of the Creative Act (1916)
• GORKY Maxim
  • The Mother (1906)
• Ilf and Petrov | satire
  • The Twelve Chairs (1928)
• LENIN Vladimir Lenin | political theory
  • The State and Revolution (1917)
  • Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
• SHOLOKHOV Mikhail
  • And Quiet Flows the Don (1928)

Soviet Literature (1917-1991)

• BULGAKOV Mikhail
  • The Master and Margarita (1967)
• MANDESLTAM Osip
  • Poems (1910s-1930s)
• NABOKOV Vladimir
  • Lolita (1955)
• PASTERNAK Boris
  • Doctor Zhivago (1957)
• TSYPKIN Leonid
  • Summer in Baden-Baden (1982)