Ivan Gontjarov

Oblomov är en roman av Ivan Gontjarov. Boken kom ut 1859 och räknas till klassikerna i den ryskspråkiga litteraturen och ger en insiktsfull skildring av miljöer hos 1850-talets herremän. Romanen tillkom då det feodala godsägarsystemet konfronterades med den nya industrialismen, och godsägarna visade sig vara hjälplösa …

On the Eve is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. Turgenev embellishes this love story with observations on middle class life and interposes some art and philosophy. Nikolay Dobrolyubov was critical of On the Eve, offending Turgenev.

The Precipice is the third novel by Ivan Goncharov, first published in January–May 1869 issues of Vestnik Evropy magazine. The novel, conceived in 1849, took twenty years to be completed and has been preceded by the publication of the three extracts: "Sophja Nikolayevna Belovodova", "Grandmother" and "Portrait". The …