Russian novels adapted into operas

1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy

1869 novel by Leo Tolstoy

novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being

novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin

1899 novel by Leo Tolstoy

1836 novel by Aleksandr Pushkin

1925 novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

1928 novel by Mikhail Sholokhov

novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

novel by Nikolai Leskov

unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin

unfinished historical novel by Aleksandr Pushkin, based on the life of his maternal great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a black African brought to Russia during the reign of Peter the Great

novel by Valery Bryusov