Tolstoy's epic follows a constellation of aristocratic families through the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, weaving private lives into the sweep of history. Monumental in scale and intimate in feeling, it is often called the greatest novel ever written.
Sources for Leo Tolstoy — War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy — War and Peace in Russian Literature
Held in the Russian Literature chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Alexander Pushkin — Eugene Onegin (1833)
- Alexander Pushkin — The Queen of Spades (1834)
- Alexander Pushkin — The Captain's Daughter (1836)
- Alexander Pushkin — The Bronze Horseman (1837)
- Mikhail Lermontov — A Hero of Our Time (1840)
- Mikhail Lermontov — The Demon (1842)
- Nikolai Gogol — Dead Souls (1842)
- Ivan Goncharov — Oblomov (1859)
- Ivan Turgenev — A Nest of the Gentry (1859)
- Ivan Turgenev — Fathers and Sons (1862)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — Notes from the Underground (1864)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — Crime and Punishment (1866)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — The Idiot (1869)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- Leo Tolstoy — Anna Karenina (1877)
- Leo Tolstoy — The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
- Leo Tolstoy — Resurrection (1899)
- Anton Chekhov — Uncle Vanya (1898)
- Anton Chekhov — Short Stories (1899)
- Anton Chekhov — The Cherry Orchard (1904)
- Leo Tolstoy — Hadji Murad (1912)