Russian Classics—all Russian literature in one app. Over 15,000 novels, short stories, plays, and poems by Russian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries: from Karamzin and Pushkin to Shukshin and Astafyev. Download a book once and then read it offline—without internet or data.
No subscription, registration, or "preview fragments" required: each work is available in its entirety and free.
📚 15,000 BOOKS, 3,000 AUTHORS
• Golden Age: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Goncharov, Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Leskov, Ostrovsky, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Chekhov.
• Silver Age and early 20th century: Bunin, Kuprin, Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Alexander Grin, Averchenko, Sasha Cherny, Yesenin, Tsvetaeva.
• Soviet and émigré prose: Bulgakov, Platonov, Sholokhov, Paustovsky, Kataev, Gaidar, Nabokov, Shalamov, Solzhenitsyn, Shukshin, Astafyev, Nagibin.
• School literature curriculum for grades 5 through 11: "The Captain's Daughter," "A Hero of Our Time," "The Government Inspector," "Fathers and Sons," "Crime and Punishment," "Quiet Flows the Don," "The Master and Margarita."
• Short stories by Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Shukshin—short enough for a single metro ride.
• Search by title and author, bookshelves, favorites, and "Continue Reading."
• Backup – your books and settings won't be lost when you change smartphones.
🎧 READ ALOUD
The app will read any book aloud using your Android's speech synthesis. Speed, sleep timer, control from the lock screen; the paragraph being read is highlighted in the text. Convenient when your eyes are tired or you need to catch up on something before class on the way to school.
⚙️ READER LIKE A PAPER BOOK
• Page turning with animation or scrolling with autoscroll.
• Book fonts, line spacing, and syllable breaks.
• Paper, sepia, and night themes, custom colors, and a blue light filter.
• Scroll with volume buttons, "Keep screen on," and orientation lock.
• The app remembers your reading position and opens the book where you left off.
✍️ QUOTES FOR ESSAYS
Highlight a fragment and save it as a quote, note, or bookmark. Quotes are collected in a searchable collection: convenient for preparing for essays and exams. Any quote can be turned into an image and sent. For unfamiliar or outdated words, a dictionary and translation are available.
📥 FULLY OFFLINE
Downloaded books are stored on your phone and can be accessed on the subway, on a plane, at home, and while roaming. Only the books you've opened take up space.
📖 WHERE TO START
Not sure where to begin with Russian classics? Try Bunin's "Dark Alleys," Kuprin's "Olesya" and "The Garnet Bracelet," Grin's "Scarlet Sails," Bulgakov's "Heart of a Dog," or Shukshin's "The Freak"—these can be read in an evening. And then there's "War and Peace," "Anna Karenina," "The Brothers Karamazov," and "Oblomov": Russian classics that everyone should read.
👤 WHO IT'S BEST FOR
• Schoolchildren: their summer reading list and relevant works are always on their phone.
• Philology students and literature teachers.
• Those who want to reread Russian classics as adults and see something different in them.
• Those who read on the go without internet or love listening to books.
Russian classics—to finally finish "War and Peace," reread Chekhov and Bunin, or find something to read in the evening. Free, offline, and in full.
15,000 Russian classics: Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin. Read offline in full