Stories and articles about Russia

Everything on WonderBooks tagged Russia: 1 article and 50 illustrated stories, free to read with audio narration.

Articles

• Catherine the Great: Is Her Story True, or Just a Legend?

Illustrated stories

• A Hero of Our Time
  A restless young officer, the people he uses up along the way, and the Caucasus mountains that outlast all of them
• A Nest of Gentlefolk
  A nobleman's return, a fleeting hope of love, and a life of quiet sorrow
• Anna Karenina
  A married woman, a count, and a love that costs her everything
• Baba Yaga and the Little Girl
  A classic folk tale about a brave girl, a dark forest, and a hut on chicken legs
• Crime and Punishment
  A desperate theory, two murders, and the long road from a Petersburg garret to confession in Siberia
• Dead Souls
  A gentleman travels the back roads of Russia buying up the names of serfs who are already dead
• Dmitri Mendeleev's Big Idea
  San Francisco and Saint Petersburg
• Dubrovsky
  A feud between nobles, a son's revenge, and a love that came too late.
• Emelya and the Talking Pike
  A lazy fellow, a magical fish, and a journey to love and power
• Eugene Onegin
  A bored aristocrat, a woman who loved him, and the duel that ruined them both
• Fathers and Sons
  A young nihilist comes home to the Russian countryside, and finds that believing in nothing is harder than it sounds
• First Love
  A sixteen-year-old's passionate first summer, his captivating older neighbour, and the terrible secret that binds them to his own father
• Hadji Murat
  A chieftain's defiance and a tragic fate in the Caucasus
• Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia — 1764)
  Artwork and artistic legacy • 1764) • 18th century
• How Homes Changed from Caves to Castles (30000 BC, Chauvet Cave)
  Homes
• Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf
  The golden apple, the Firebird, and the loyal Grey Wolf
• Morozko the Frost King
  A classic Russian folk tale of kindness rewarded and greed punished by the winter spirit
• Mosco
  The October Revolution of 1917 led to the establishment of Soviet power in Moscow,… • Russia
• Notes from Underground
  The bitter confession of a man from St. Petersburg's shadows
• Oblomov
  A nobleman so comfortable in bed that love, fortune and his own best years went by without him once getting up
• On the Eve
  An idealistic young woman finds the hero she is waiting for, on the eve of a nation's war for freedom
• Rudin
  A man of great ideas and no will, who lived a life of brilliant failures
• Ruslan and the Enchanted Garden
  A knight, a wizard, and a quest for true love
• Sadko and the Sea King
  A musician, a wager, and a journey to the bottom of the sea
• Taras Bulba
  An old Cossack, his two sons, and the war that tested their loyalties to the breaking point
• The Black Monk
  A brilliant mind, a beautiful garden, and the vision that promised greatness at a terrible cost
• The Brothers Karamazov
  A father, three sons, the woman they all wanted, and the murder that convicts the wrong brother
• The Captain's Daughter
  A young officer, a rebel leader who remembers a kindness, and the fortress on the Russian steppe
• The Cossacks
  A young man's quest for a simple life in the wild Caucasus
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  A judge discovers, in his last illness, that the comfortable life he built was never the real one
• The Duel
  Two men, one woman, and a summer of shame on the Black Sea coast
• The Firebird
  A stolen golden apple, a feather of fire, and the youngest son who rode the longest road
• The Gambler
  A tutor's obsession with a woman, a family's desperation for an inheritance, and the fever of the roulette wheel
• The Idiot
  A good man in a bad world, and the two women who loved him
• The Lady with the Dog
  A holiday romance in Yalta, and the unexpected love that followed
• The Little Humpbacked Horse
  A humble boy, his magical horse, and the path to becoming Tsar
• The Nose
  The strange case of a civil servant who woke up one morning to find his nose was gone
• The Overcoat
  A poor clerk, a magnificent new coat, and the ghost who haunts St. Petersburg
• The Queen of Spades
  A secret of three cards, a desperate young man, and a night at the gambling table
• The Steppe
  The story of a nine-year-old boy's long journey across the vast Russian plain
• The Blizzard
  A snowy night, a lost bridegroom, and the stranger who took his place
• The Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943, Soviet Union)
  The Battle of Stalingrad
• The Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991, Russia)
  The Collapse of the Soviet Union
• The Connection Between Space and Earth
  San Francisco and Drought
• The Defeat of the Swedish Empire (1700, Russia)
  The Defeat of the Swedish Empire
• The End of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1773, Russia)
  The End of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth • 18th century
• The Russian Revolution (1917, Russia)
  The Russian Revolution of 1917 • 1917
• Viy
  Three nights in a haunted church, and the student who looked when he was told not to
• War and Peace
  A prince, a wandering heir, and the woman they both loved, carried through the drawing rooms of Petersburg and the battlefields of Napoleon's Russia
• Ward No. 6
  A doctor's philosophical apathy is tested when he is declared mad and locked in his own asylum.