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