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Alyosha the Pot — Leo Tolstoy
The Bishop — Anton Chekhov
Recollections of Leo Tolstoy — Maxim Gorky
Light Breathing — Ivan Bunin
Time — Nadezhda Teffi
Alexander Blok — A Girl Was Singing
The Stranger — Alexander Blok
From Petersburg — Andrei Bely
Nikolai — Velimir Kblebnikov
Dante — Anna Akhmatova
Courage — Anna Akhmatova
The Potudan River — Andrei Platonov
Varykino (from Dr. Zhivago) — Boris Pasternak
Hamlet (from Dr. Zhivago) — Boris Pasternak
March (from Dr. Zhivago) — Boris Pasternak
Throdosia — Osip Mandelstam
The Admiralty — Osip Mandelstam
Leningrad — Osip Mandelstam
The Last Supper — Osip Mandelstam
From The Master And Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
My First Goose — Isaac Babel
How It Was Done In Odessa — Isaac Babel
My First Fee — Isaac Babel
Bees and People — Mikhail Zoshchenko
From Before Sunrise — Mikhail Zoshchenko
Envy — Yuri Olesha
The Return of Chorb — Vladimir Nabokov
The Visit to the Museum — Vladimir Nabokov
A May Night (from Hope against Hope) — Nadezhda Mandelstam
Last Letter (from Hope Abandoned) — Nadezhda Mandelstam
Anecdotes About Pushkin’s Life — Daniil Kharms
The Connection — Daniil Kharms
Prosthetic Appliances (from Kolyma Tales) — Varlam Shalamov
A Child’s Drawings (from Kolyma Tales) — Varlam Shalamov
Lend-Lease (from Kolyma Tales) — Varlam Shalamov
Matryona’s Home — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Pkhentz — Andrei Sinyavsky
Adam and Eve — Yuri Kazakov
From Faithful Ruslan — Georgi Vladimov
A Circle of Friends — Vladimir Voinovich
From A School for Fools — Sasha Sokolov