A novel in which the creative principles of Dostoevsky embodied in full, and amazing ownership of the story reaches the original blossom. Bright and almost painfully talented the story of poor Prince Myshkin, frantic, desperate Parfion Rogozhin and Nastasya Filippovna, a lot of times filmed and staged, and now captivates the reader...

Had already written "the house of the Dead", "Notes from underground", "Crime and punishment", "Idiot" and other masterpieces, and Dostoevsky still had an acute sense of dissatisfaction and, by his own admission, only approached the chief to his work. In 1871 and 1872, he published his sixth novel with geeky and symbolic title "the Demons". Fascinating drama, exciting plot, raging passion and extraordinary, wild events "under a glass bell" the provincial town, is one of the greatest works of not only Russian, but also world literature.

Diverse and amazing creativity of Mikhail Bulgakov has long received worldwide recognition. He read and reread all over the world, enjoy the whimsy of the Russian genius.
Their most famous novel "the Master and Margarita," the writer had created over eleven years, altering and supplementing the text almost to the death. However, it would take almost another thirty years before the work was published and became one of the greatest masterpieces of Russian prose of the XX century.
The novel has been repeatedly staged in the theatres of Russia and abroad and served as the basis for many movies. In 1994 Director Yuri Kara filmed a movie of the same name, whose fate was mysteriously connected with the novel and things happening in it "hell". After many hardships throughout the film was already finished strip, and not appearing in the box office, has been on the shelf for sixteen years. In 2011, the legendary film with such stars of Russian cinema, Mikhail Ulyanov, Valentin Gaft, Igor Kvasha, Nikolai Burlyaev and Anastasia Vertinskaya, will finally be released on wide screens of the country.

Three stories, written by Mikhail Bulgakov in 20 years - "Diaboliad" (1923). "The fatal eggs" (1924) and "heart of a Dog (1925), is a fantastic history, the forerunners of the novel "Master and Margarita", in which the genius of the writer, his extraordinary imagination and brilliant style are evident in all of his power and fullness. The book includes enchanting, witty and mocking the play "Ivan Vasilievich", which formed the basis of the script by Leonid Gaidai to the famous movie "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession".

The novel "the insulted and injured" (1861) was created by Dostoyevsky in an era of unprecedented upsurge of Russian public life - in an era when the publication of new literary works was seen as a socially significant event. So it was accepted and the emergence of the novel "Humiliated and offended". After the release of N. A. Dobrolyubov took Dostoevsky a place of honor in the "humanistic" direction of Russian literature. Much in this novel, readers seemed unusual: before them was set a new ethical and social problem of selfishness. Prince Valkovsky, unfolding on the pages of the novel his cynical "philosophy of life" became the first work of the writer as a hero-"ideologue", the predecessor of the Man from underground, Raskolnikov, Svidrigailov, and other heroes of Dostoevsky, 1860-1870-ies.

В русской литературе найдется не много писателей, творчество которых было бы в той же степени автобиографично, как творчество Михаила Булгакова — писателя сложной и горькой судьбы, прошедшего сквозь бури Гражданской войны, одолевшего тяжкий недуг морфинизма, познавшего и громкую славу, и жесточайшую травлю; художника, который противопоставил «бессудной тирании» силу убийственной иронии и сарказма.
В «Записках юного врача» и в повести «Морфий» нашли творческое отражение истории из жизни М. Булгакова в Смоленской губернии, где он служил земским врачом.
«Необыкновенные приключения доктора» повествуют о послереволюционных событиях на Северном Кавказе.
«Записки покойника», также включенные в настоящее издание, связаны с работой Булгакова-драматурга во МХАТе и написаны в трудное для писателя время, когда были запрещены к постановке его пьесы. Многие страницы романа пронизаны непревзойденным булгаковским сарказмом, а порой и ядом, но не могут скрыть глубочайшей любви автора к театру и к тем, кто его творит.

Heartfelt "the lady with the dog" and the sad "the Grasshopper". Scathing "the Man in a case" and the mischievous "Boys." Merciless "Ward number six" and the touching "Kashtanka". This collection includes the stories and novels of different years, serious and funny, humorous and tragic, both adults and children. However, no matter what he wrote the great Chekhov – the constant was always his striking sense of the word and a deep understanding of human nature.

"Fathers and sons" is one of the strongest novels of Ivan Turgenev, the problem which is relevant in the XIX century, has not lost its brightness and now. The eternal conflict between youth, demanding change, and conservatism of Mature age... the Eternal conflict of illusion and reality, intellect and emotion... And finally, an unusual, sharp eye on the restless, enigmatic soul of the Russian intelligentsia — in its extreme, nihilistic form of spiritual life...