Russian literature

Živi i mrtvi

The novel is the first part of Konstantin Simonov's war trilogy, depicting the first years of the Great Patriotic War through the fates of soldiers and civilians, their struggles and attempts to survive the horrors of war.

Život jednoga umjetnika - Maksim Gorki

"The Life of an Artist", by Ilya Gruzdev, is a biographical work that deals with the life and work of Maxim Gorky, one of the most important Russian writers and social reformers.

Zlatni ključić

The novel represents Tolstoy's adaptation of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi; he got the idea for the novel as a child, when he was read only the first part of the book, so he invented the rest himself.

Zlatno tele

The Golden Calf (1931) is a brilliant satirical picaresque adventure, a sequel to the legendary 12 Chairs, where the great schemer Ostap Bender returns in full glory – charming, cynical, irredeemably cunning and always one step ahead of everyone else.

Zlatno telešce

The Golden Calf (1931) follows the ingenious con artist Ostap Bender, who in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan seeks a secret millionaire in order to get rich, encountering the absurdity of bureaucracy, the new Soviet man, and his own downfall

Zločin i kazna

Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, published in 1866 in the journal Russian Herald. It is considered one of the greatest works of Russian literature. The plot is set in Saint Petersburg in the mid-1860s.

Zločin i kazna

After the impoverished student Raskolnikov commits a murder, justifying it with higher goals, his inner remorse, the psychological pressure of the investigator, and love subject him to a moral transformation.

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