COUNTRY · RUSSIABooks set in Russia
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33 books · 22 authors · 1833–2025
33 books here
Most-set authors
Fyodor Dostoevsky (6) · Tom Clancy (4) · Alexander Pushkin (2) · Mikhail Bulgakov (2) · Nikolai Gogol (2) · Ray Nayler (1)
Genres
literary fiction (11) · mystery & crime (3) · thriller & suspense (2) · fantasy (1) · historical fiction (1)
Books set here
Set in Russia (22)
Where the Axe Is Buried
Ray Nayler
autocratic Federation, primary setting

The Noise of Time
Julian Barnes
Shostakovich Stalin-era life

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Oblonsky household, society scenes

Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Night Watch patrol grounds

Metro 2033
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Chase scenes through capital

The Bear and the Dragon
Tom Clancy
SVR assassination attempt
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Tom Clancy
Soviet spy operations hub

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
main setting

The Twelve Chairs
Ilf and Petrov
Zhivago childhood home

Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith
Entire underground setting
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
Kirsanov estate, provincial gentrylife

Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
unnamed provincial Russia estates

City of Thieves
David Benioff
Siege of Leningrad backdrop

Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Underground Man lives here

Petersburg
Andrei Bely
city itself a character, 1905 uprising

The Bronze Horseman
Alexander Pushkin
Neva flood devastates the city

The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky
bureaucratic St. Petersburg setting

The Overcoat
Nikolai Gogol
clerk Akaky lives and works here

The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights canal meetings

White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fictional provincial town model
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Murder scene opening

Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov
Professor apartment street
Also featuring Russia (11)

The Tsar of Love and Techno
Anthony Marra
Chechen war backdrop
The Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips
remote Russian Far East setting

Crooks
Lou Berney
Tallulah post-Soviet acrobat storyline
Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin
Tatyana debuts in society here

Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
Moscow investigation arc

Red Rabbit
Tom Clancy
Foley KGB CIA spy operations

The Bourne Ultimatum
Robert Ludlum
climactic Russia finale
Night Watch
Sergei Lukyanenko
Summer retreat for characters

The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy
Soviet submarine base origin

The Favorites
Layne Fargo
2014 Winter Olympics climax

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
murder scene canal street