You're off to a great start, but might I suggest you look into Tolstoi? The Sebastopol Sketches about Tolstoi's impressionf of the Crimean War, for instance? F

You're off to a great start, but might I suggest you look into Tolstoi? The Sebastopol Sketches about Tolstoi's impressionf of the Crimean War, for instance? For a (much more refined!) literary work, I think my favourite is Hadji Murat - where Tolstoi contemplates loyalty and honour. And, of course, there's Anna Karenina and War and Peace, though I'll heretically admit that the latter didn't give me much except relief I'd churned myself through it by the time it was finished; I think I'd have appreciated it more if I'd kept notes underway - the dramatis personae is mind-bogglingly huge, and I suspect I lost lots of nuance as I lost track of the characters and their relationships. Bulgakov's 'Master and Margarita' was a great read, but I'd suggest you get hold of a good commentary or annotated edition; when I first read it, I lost lots of context as I didn't catch references to contemporary Soviet society and persons (With several characters in the novel being modeled on real movers and shakers in the Soviet cultural scene) The story is brilliantly absurd and funny, though.