7 BEST SHORT STORIES - RUSSIAN AUTHORS

Russian literature golden age was in the 19th century, when talents like Tolstoy flourished. Russian authors have significantly contri­buted to numerous literary genres. Russia has five Nobel Prize in lite­rature laureates. As of 2011, Russia was the fourth largest book producer in the world in terms of published titles. A popular folk saying claims Russians are “the world’s most reading nation”. Literary critic August Nemo has selected the following short stories for this book: The Nose by Nikolai Gogol; The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin; God Sees The Truth, But Waits by Leo Tolstoy; The Bet by Anton Chekhov; The Christmas Tree And The Wedding by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; One Autumun Night by Maxim Gorky; Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev.