19th Century Russian Novel Rankings
The most celebrated and significant Russian novels of the 19th century.
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▲ Top 5
#1
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
+11
#2
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
+8
#3
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy (1869)
+6
#4
Demons / The Possessed
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872)
+4
#5
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy (1878)
+1
▼ Bottom 5
#1
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy (1886)
-7
#2
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol (1842)
-5
#3
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev (1862)
-5
#4
Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov (1859)
-4
#5
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov (1840)
-3
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The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)+11
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)+8
War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy (1869)+6
Demons / The Possessed — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872)+4
Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy (1878)+1
The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)—
The Adolescent / A Raw Youth — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1875)—
Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)—
Rudin — Ivan Turgenev (1856)—
Home of the Gentry / A Nest of Nobles — Ivan Turgenev (1859)—
Virgin Soil — Ivan Turgenev (1877)—
Spring Torrents — Ivan Turgenev (1872)—
The Precipice — Ivan Goncharov (1869)—
An Ordinary Story — Ivan Goncharov (1847)—
The Captain's Daughter — Alexander Pushkin (1836)—
The Queen of Spades — Alexander Pushkin (1834)—
Taras Bulba — Nikolai Gogol (1842)—
The Overcoat — Nikolai Gogol (1842)—
What Is to Be Done? — Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1863)—
Who Is Happy in Russia? — Nikolai Nekrasov (1877)—
The Golovlyov Family — Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1880)—
The History of a Town — Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1870)—
Resurrection — Leo Tolstoy (1899)—
The Kreutzer Sonata — Leo Tolstoy (1889)—
Childhood — Leo Tolstoy (1852)—
Boyhood — Leo Tolstoy (1854)—
Youth — Leo Tolstoy (1857)—
The Cossacks — Leo Tolstoy (1863)—
Sevastopol Sketches — Leo Tolstoy (1855)—
Poor Folk — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1846)—
The Double — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1846)—
The Gambler — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1867)—
Humiliated and Insulted — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1861)—
The House of the Dead — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1862)—
Netochka Nezvanova — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1849)—
Oblomov — Ivan Goncharov (1859)—
A Sportsman's Notebook — Ivan Turgenev (1852)—
Hadji Murat — Leo Tolstoy (1912, written 1896–1904)—
The Enchanted Wanderer — Nikolai Leskov (1873)—
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District — Nikolai Leskov (1865)—
Cathedral Folk — Nikolai Leskov (1872)—
At the Daggers Drawn — Nikolai Leskov (1871)—
On the Eve — Ivan Turgenev (1860)-1
Eugene Onegin — Alexander Pushkin (1833)-2
Smoke — Ivan Turgenev (1867)-2
A Hero of Our Time — Mikhail Lermontov (1840)-3
Oblomov — Ivan Goncharov (1859)-4
Dead Souls — Nikolai Gogol (1842)-5
Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev (1862)-5
The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy (1886)-7