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No literary tradition has plumbed the depths of the human soul quite like Russian literature. The moral complexity of Dostoevsky. The epic sweep of Tolstoy. The quiet, devastating precision of Chekhov. These are writers who did not merely tell stories. They asked the hardest questions a person can ask about life, suffering, faith and what it means to be human, and they answered them with a completeness that has made their work essential reading for over a century.

This collection brings seven of the greatest works in that tradition together in one beautifully designed, deeply considered set.

The Collection

Each volume in this set is a premium Everyman's Library hardcover edition, renowned for exceptional physical quality and scholarly rigor, dressed in a Juniper Custom jacket adorned with a stunning depiction of Saint Basil's Cathedral, one of the most iconic and immediately recognizable symbols of Russian history and culture. The design is as visually striking as the literature it houses, creating a collection that commands attention on any shelf and rewards every reader who reaches for it.

The seven volumes included, published by Everyman's Library:

• The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov
• Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
• Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose by Alexander Pushkin
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• A Sportsman's Notebook by Ivan Turgenev

Each set is made entirely to order. Please allow two weeks for production.

Want to Customize Further?
Our Full Custom services can modify the title list, expand the collection, or develop an entirely new jacket design built around your specific vision.

All Juniper Custom orders are non-refundable and non-returnable due to the made-to-order nature of each set.

FAQs

Why are Everyman's Library editions the right choice for a Russian literature collection?
Everyman's Library has long been regarded as the gold standard for classic literature in hardcover, and their Russian titles in particular are among the most respected editions available in the English language. The translations are authoritative, the introductions are written by leading scholars and writers, and the physical quality of each volume, with sewn cloth bindings, silk ribbon markers, acid-free paper and European half-round spines, is among the finest available. For a collection built around writers of the magnitude of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, the Everyman's Library edition is a choice worthy of the literature it houses.

Where might a reader new to Russian literature begin?
Many begin with Chekhov, whose short novels distill the tradition's tenderness and irony into a single sitting, or with Pushkin, the poet from whom so much of Russian prose descends. From there, Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov reward the reader ready for the tradition at its grandest, while Oblomov and A Sportsman's Notebook reveal its quieter, more humane registers. For the reader who wishes to go further still, our Full Custom services can expand the collection into a more comprehensive Russian library.

What does the Saint Basil's Cathedral jacket design bring to the collection as a whole?
Everything a great jacket design should: immediate visual impact, cultural resonance, and a design logic that feels native to the subject matter rather than applied to it. Saint Basil's Cathedral is one of the most recognizable structures in the world, its onion domes and vivid colors as unmistakably Russian as the literature this collection contains. Our designers used the cathedral's distinctive architectural character as the visual anchor for the jacket design, creating a composition that is simultaneously a work of original illustration and a deeply considered response to the literary tradition it represents. On a shelf, the seven volumes together create a display that announces its subject beautifully, a collection that a lover of Russian literature will recognize and respond to immediately.