Both Russian classics & acclaimed contemporary Russian literature -- involving stories (novels, short stories, plays) & poetry, and life-writing & non-fiction & philosophy essays.
I also appreciate any commentary on specific translation to look out for to procure or avoid.
Russian authors already in my personal library in alphabetical order by last name:
- Anna Akhmatova
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Anton Chekhov
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Nikolai Gogol
- Ivan Goncharov
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Alexander Puskin
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Leo Tolstoy
- Ivan Turgenev
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko