The Russian Short Story - Volume 3: Fyodor Dostoyevsky to Leo Tolstoy
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Schedrin and Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw Parker and Richard Mitchley
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About this audiobook
Perhaps an easier way to enjoy a wider selection of the Russian heritage, with its varied and glorious literary talents, is with the short story. These gems sparkle and beguile the mind with their characters and narrative, exploring facets of society and the human condition that more Western authors somehow find more difficult to navigate, or to explore, explain and relate to.
The Russian short story is, in many respects, in a genre of its own. It is at its captivating best whether it’s an exploration of real-life experiences, through fantasy and fables and on to total absurdity.
In a land so vast it is unsurprising that it is a world almost unto itself. Cultures and landscapes of differing hues are packed together bound only by the wilful bonds and force of Empire.
The stories in this collection traverse the decades where one might be a serf under an absolute monarch, and the reality of that was pretty near to slavery, into an emancipation of sorts in the fields, or towns under the despotic will of landowners and the rich into the upheavals of Empire and then the overthrow of the ruling class and its replacement by the communists, who promised equality for all and delivered a society where the down-trodden remained the lowest yet vital cog of the state machine and its will.
Whilst Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Chekhov are a given in any Russian collection we also explore and include Andreyev, Korolenko, Turgenev, Blavatsky and many others to create a world rich and dense across a sprawling landscape of diverse people, riddled with the class and unfairness in perhaps some of the most turbulent times that Russia has ever experienced.
01 - The Russian Short Story - Volume 3 - An Introduction
02 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
03 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 1 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
04 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
05 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
06 - How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials by Nikolai Schedrin
07 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy
08 - Aloysha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy
09 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy
10 - The Snowstorm - Part 1 by Leo Tolstoy
11 - The Snowstorm - Part 2 by Leo Tolstoy
12 - God Sees The Truth But Waits by Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. Between 1838 and 1843 he studied at the St Petersburg Engineering Academy. His first work of fiction was the epistolary novel Poor Folk (1846), which met with a generally favourable response. However, his immediately subsequent works were less enthusiastically received. In 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested as a member of the socialist Petrashevsky circle, and subjected to a mock execution. He suffered four years in a Siberian penal settlement and then another four years of enforced military service. He returned to writing in the late 1850s and travelled abroad in the 1860s. It was during the last twenty years of his life that he wrote the iconic works, such as Notes from the Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), which were to form the basis of his formidable reputation. He died in 1881.
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