(Or: Don’t get run over by a tram after talking to Satan) How to Have a Sense of Humour about Life: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Or: Don’t forget to take your spoon to prison with you) How to Keep Going When Things Go Wrong: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn How to Live with the Feeling That the Grass is Always Greener: Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov How to Overcome Inner Conflict: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Or: Don’t kill your best friend in a duel) How to Not be Your Own Worst Enemy: Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (Or: Don’t fall in love with your best friend’s wife) How to Survive Unrequited Love: A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev (Or: Don’t wear tight shoes on prison visits) How to be Optimistic in the Face of Despair: Requiem by Anna Akhmatova (Or: Don’t leave your wife while she’s pregnant) How to Face Up to Whatever Life Throws at You: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak How to Know Who You Really Are: Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy A Note on Sources, Translation, Transliteration and Those Funny Russian Names.
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