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The protagonist wakes up one morning... without a nose. Meanwhile, the nose itself is cruising around St. Petersburg, dressed up in hat and coat.

Vladimir Lenin read this novel five times in one summer. He wanted to know what was to be done (spot the clue). The author pondered that very question

A sprawling tome about Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, where the beau monde speaks French (and one character converses with an oak tree).

Love, death, and hate are intertwined in this novel about a selfless Christ-like figure doomed to idiocy.

If you ever studied at school in Russia, you’ll know the sound of the ax is a metaphor for the destruction of life as the Russian nobility knows it.

A group of people roam Russia to find out whose life is liveable. Only the student Grisha’s, it turns out.

Witches’ sabbaths, naked soirées, heads cut off, talking cats. It’s all there in this classic of Soviet literature.

A sublime poem by a futurist poet in which droplets of condensed water vapour wear clothes.

A man aboard a suburban train shares the recipe of a cocktail called Young Communist’s Tear, which consists of aftershave, nail polish, and mouthwash.