Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Russian paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
65+ Russian Short Stories Classic Collection
Léon Tolstoï, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Alexsandr Pushkin, Maxim Gorky, Andreyev Leonid, Aleksandr Kuprin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Dostoyevsky Fyodor, Anton Chekhov
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Les Généraux et le moujik
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
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Learn Russian with Bilingual Books
Anton Chekhov, Aleksandr Kuprin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Garshin Vsevolod, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grimm Brothers, Charles Dickens, Charles Perrault, Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Rider Haggard, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Leonard Arthur Magnus, Octave Mirbeau
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A Family Of Noblemen
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
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