#russian authors

[blabbershere]

Walk on your broken foot and leave no trace of your hand on anyone's shoulder.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[lawlietscandystash]

fun fact. this exists

ivan goncharov had a dog he adored named mimishka (also called mikha tezorovna)

[littlemisscannonball]

'What is this torture for?' And the voice would reply,

'It's just there. It's not for anything.'

— Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

[the-portrait-of-seraph]

Another week I probably won't survive and the author who will get me through it.

I've been revisiting the work of Dostoevsky! It's been especially fun after reading a few biographies and bibliographies on him; I love these little things about reading!

Another book I'd like to recommend (not pictured) is The Sinner and The Saint by Kevin Birmingham! Wonderful biography and account of the murder that inspired Crime and Punishment.

Hope everyone has been doing well! Senior year of high school certainly hasn't been kind to me, but we can handle that.

[nicolenag2008]

A Beginner's Guide to Russian Literature

If you’ve ever felt daunted by the idea of diving into Russian literature, you’re not alone. The names are long, the books are thick, and the themes often tackle the deepest parts of the human soul. But here’s the good news: Russian literature is incredibly rewarding, and it’s not as intimidating as it may seem. In fact, once you start, you might find yourself unable to stop. Whether you’re…

[renegade-hierophant]

Me: "So what did you study?"

Her: "Russian literature."

Me: "Ewww."

[freeartzombie]

To live without hope is to cease to live.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Insulted and the Injured"

[loiladadiani]

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

[homkamiro]

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! I need to tell just how running blind fanfiction by @thetriggeredhappy fucked me up

I'm not joking when I say that this is my favourite fic ever made, I literally don't, everything about it is so perfect, so detailed and so emotional,, i cried a lot, i laughed a lot, and I was really amazed by some of the plot twitsts

EVERYONE needs to read it, and if you don't imma bust yo damn kneecaps

[vorbarrsultana]

on today's episode of making the grishaverse make sense: trying to come up with somewhat historically plausible title for nikolai

[totghostly]

viktor x male disabled cane user reader

FEMALES, MINORS, NON MLM DNI

no season 2 spoilers. light mentions of s1 events? could be pre-s1 or during.

-- reader is implied to be like 2-4 years younger maybe?? he/him user. could be romantic or platonic. Jayce is here for a good time not a long time LMAO

safe for touch repulsed people, POC, fat, trans, and disabled readers. Written with a transmasc self-insert in mind. Could be any disability that causes pain and fatuige that reader uses a cane for. written by an author with either POTS and EDS or early arthritis.

People don't realize how embarrassing it is to be disabled and have to use an aid. To have the equivalent to a flashing sign that says "try to fix me!" on it. To be "too young" to use it, "too healthy".

Viktor was okay with nonody understanding. He's the Co-Scientist of Hextech, why would he care what some topsider thought? He never boticed how lonely it was to have nobody who gets it. Nobody who understands the frustration, all beacuse your body doesnt work normally. There's not a lot of topsiders that he sees with visible disabilities.

Jayce had been trying to get him to agree to let his friend work at the lab, sense he had went to engineering school a few years after Jayce and Viktor. Viktor, for good reasons, was hesitant to agree to have a stranger working on his lifes work. He agreed, though, when Jayce had sworn he was probably just as competent as them both, maybe more. Though, Viktor found that hard to believe.

The first day he seen him, He got to the lab during a Council meeting and was at his desk for most of the day. He left late into the evening, saying his goodbyes to Jayce and waving softly to Viktor, who reciprocated and went back to work before he left. For someone who prides himself on how observant he is, Viktor is shocked he didn't realize his new lab partners cane earlier on.

He only really noticed it because reader arrived later, something around ten AM. He had his cane in hand while he walked, bag over his shoulder as he yawned. Jayce greeted him, asking if he was okay just to get a curt "it's okay, I'm fine!" as reader sits at his desk.

Viktors mind had been going back to the younger man rather frequently that day, watching as he shifted on his stool, or tried to stretch his legs to get some of the pain to ease away to no avail. Viktor seen the look in his eyes, that haze. Jayce had went to get more parts, sense they had been low for a while and they needed them for their tasks that day. Around a half hour later, Viktor walked up to Readers desk, and sat in a spare stool.

He greets the other, Reader looking up at him as he mumbles a reply. "How ehm.. are you feeling?" he hesitantly asked. He wanted as Reader shifted, "I'm .. fine." He shrugs, taking a swig of his drink. Viktor lets him lie. It can be hard to admit you arent okay.

After a few minutes, Reader leans onto his desk. "..this sucks." he sighs, and Viktor nods. "да." Reader groans in frustration. "I dont know why I cant work like a normal guy." He mumbles, arns coming up to cusion his head. "Life is err.. Unfair, to good people." Viktor says, matter of fact. He scoots closer to Reader, not touching them. His presence is comforting enough though.

It's an unspoken "I'm here. I understand. I see you." and he hopes Reader feels it. He'll be here, whenever Reader needs to vent about it, if ever. Wether it be the frustration , The pain, or just.. How people treat you. He understands. And one day he hopes everyone will care enough to try and understand too.

[enchanted-moura]

I have noticed many times that when you put on a beautiful evening dress, do excellent makeup and comb your hair in the best salon in town, you can't count on any romantic adventure. Men will look at you with a searching gaze, but through you, and only in the eyes of women will there be something that can reward you for all this fuss

-Casual, Oksana Robski

[nicolenag2008]

The Unbearable Weight of Guilt: Raskolnikov’s Struggle in Crime and Punishment

There are few books that leave you feeling like you’ve truly walked in someone else’s shoes, but Crime and Punishment does exactly that. From the moment Rodion Raskolnikov walks the streets of St. Petersburg with murder in his heart, you are thrust into the depths of a mind at war with itself. It’s dark, it’s messy, and it’s disturbingly real. In fact, the closer you look at Raskolnikov, the…

[renegade-hierophant]

The news of the Polish uprising completely shocked me. We can only feel sorry for the Poles. We are too strong to hate them. The war that is beginning will be a war of extermination. Or at least it should be. After all, the Poles must be strangled. And our slowness in doing so is intolerable.

Pushkin’s letter to E. Vetrovo (1830)

[freeartzombie]

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Insulted and the Injured"

[tolstoesky]

it’s very funny to me that when dostoevsky was coming up with verkhovensky’s character he was all like “i’m going to make a villain. a true demon. this man is pure evil. he represents everything that is wrong with russia. he isn’t capable of love or being loved.” and then created this gay little twink of a man with daddy issues and a toxic crush