>reading recommendations around slavic stuff, russian or not. Russian: Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment -> The Demons -> The Brothers Karamazov -> Notes From The House of the Dead -> Notes From the Underground Tolstoy: skip Griboyedov: Woe From Wit in Russian if you want to learn Russian Pushkin: Ruslan and Ludmila Lermontov: A Hero Of Our Time Gogol: Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka Turgenev: Fathers and Sons Chekhov: read anything Platonov: read everything if you know Russian, don't bother otherwise Bulgakov: Master and Margarita
Czech: Hasek: The Good Soldier Svejk
Ukranian: Lesya Ukrainka: Forest Song, other stuff
Serbian: Milorad Pavic: The Inner Side of the Wind, Dictionary of the Khazars, or well, anything really