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What to read after Tolstoy by A. N. Wilson: 24 titles sharing themes of Russian & Soviet, Literary Figures, Literary Criticism, and Biography & Autobiography, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

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Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

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Cynthia L. Haven

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

My Childhood — Maksim Gorky

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

The Sinner and the Saint Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment — Kevin Birmingham

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Kevin Birmingham

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Anton Chekhov: A Brother’s Memoir — Mikhail Chekhov

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Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

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Spencer E. Roberts

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Pushkin A Biography — Elaine Feinstein

Pushkin A Biography

Elaine Feinstein

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

The Europeans Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture — Orlando Figes

The Europeans Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Reading Chekhov A Critical Journey — Janet Malcolm

Reading Chekhov A Critical Journey

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Last Steps The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy — Leo Tolstoy

Last Steps The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Pushkin’s Button — Serena Vitale

Pushkin’s Button

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Necropolis — Vladislav Felit︠s︡ianovich Khodasevich

Vladislav Felit︠s︡ianovich Khodasevich

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Grey is the Colour of Hope — Irina Ratushinskaya

Grey is the Colour of Hope

Irina Ratushinskaya

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Before They Were Titans Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy — Elizabeth Cheresh Allen

Before They Were Titans Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

Elizabeth Cheresh Allen

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Marina Tsvetayeva — Elaine Feinstein

Marina Tsvetayeva

Elaine Feinstein

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

My Universities — Maksim Gorky

My Universities

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Nabokov The Mystery of Literary Structures — Leona Toker

Nabokov The Mystery of Literary Structures

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Solzhenitsyn A Pictorial Record — Aleksandr Isaevič Solženicyn

Solzhenitsyn A Pictorial Record

Aleksandr Isaevič Solženicyn

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Hope Against Hope A Memoir — Nadezhda Mandelʹshtam

Hope Against Hope A Memoir

Nadezhda Mandelʹshtam

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

The Discovery of Chance The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen — Aileen Kelly

The Discovery of Chance The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Hope Abandoned A Memoir — Nadezhda Mandelstam

Hope Abandoned A Memoir

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Letters to Véra — Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov

Letters to Véra

Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov

Themes: Russian & Soviet • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

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