Just bought "Tales of Petersburg" by Gogol'. Is it a good introduction to the Russians? What next?
>>9826136
Pushkin
Gogol
Chekhov
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
In this order.
>>9826166
Why Chekhov there in this order?
>>9826136
Gogol was Ukrainian
>>9826166
>Leaving out Turgenyev and Bulgakov
Get Out, Now!
>>9826863
and Grossman, Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak (poems, he's literally the TS Eliot of russian poetry), Bely, etc.
Lermontov, Bely, seeing as they're not mentioned in this thread