Farewell to Matyora
by Valentin Rasputin | 
The Petty Demon
by Fyodor Sologub | 
Pushkin House
by Andrei Bitov | 
Moscow Circles
by Venedikt Erofeev |
The Yawning Heights
by Aleksandr Zinovyev |
The Naked Year
by Boris Pilnjak |
Sofia Petrovna
by Lydia Chukovskaya |
Medea and Her Children
by Ludmila Ulitskaya | 
Petersburg
by Andrei Bely |
A Theatrical Novel
by Mikhail Bulgakov | 
Netochka Nezvanova
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
The Captain's Daughter
by Alexander Pushkin |
The Golovlyov Family
by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin |
The Foundation Pit
by Andrey Platonov | 
The Suitcase
by Sergei Dovlatov |
Leonid Dobychin's The Town of N, an unrecognized masterpiece of the Soviet 1930s, virtually vanished, together with its author, following its publication in 1935 and the subsequent vilification of Dobychin by Leningrad's cultural authorities. It portrays a fallen provincial world reminiscent of the town of N found in Gogol's Dead Souls, a place populated with characters who are petty, grasping, perfidious, and cruel, quite unlike the positive heroes of socialist realist novels.