10 of the most beautiful and exciting adaptations of Russian classics

Ten of the most beautiful, famous and spectacular works of Russian classical literature come to life on your screen in the serials format so nice to brighten up the coming weekend.

Doctor Zhivago

• Russia, 2005.
• Duration: 484 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,6.

The impressive story about a doctor, poet and philosopher Yuri Zhivago, whose life has been destroyed by war, revolution and love, which he managed to smuggle through distance and years of forced separation.

Idiot

• Russia, 2003.
• Duration: 505 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,6.

Childishly naive Prince Myshkin, he returned to Russia from the sanatorium in Switzerland faces severe reality and struggles to resist the injustice around him, without fear of It seems ridiculous and eccentric.

The Master and Margarita

• Russia, 2005.
• Duration: 500 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

Ruthless Bulgakov's satire is good both in print and on screen. Mystic, hell, good and evil, prudence and madness - of this fascinating diabolism almost impossible to put down.

quiet Flows the Don

• Russia, 2015.
• Duration: 630 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

Epic about the tragic love story and Axinya Melehova that unfolds against the backdrop of the First World and the Civil War. The newest film adaptation of all available today.

War and Peace

• United Kingdom, 2016.
• Duration: 360 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,2.

British film adaptation of the great epic L. N. Tolstoy. If the four-volume work of the great author scares you with its volume, then go ahead and hold the view series. In the center of the plot - the grandiose historical events and their impact on the lives and fates of five aristocratic families.

Hero of our time

• Russia, 2006.
• Duration: 312 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,2.

Historical drama about a lonely and weary young officer, who was looking for peace and tranquility, and found his own death.

The brothers Karamazov

• Russia, 2009.
• Duration: 528 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

A screen adaptation of the most recent and most complex novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The series of this product is very multi-layered. Here you will find everything: the incredibly intricate family relationshipsAnd arguments about the nature of man, and of course, love line.

Fathers and Sons

• Russia, 2008.
• Duration: 176 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,4.

The plot is built around the infinite and the eternal conflict of generations - the confrontation between fathers and children. Watch how the nihilist Bazarov and Kirsanov aristocrat argue with each other about love, religion, politics and much more - a real pleasure.

The white Guard

• Russia, 2012.
• Duration: 376 min.
• IMDb: 6,4.

This screen, though not repeat exactly all the events taking place in the novel, but still incredibly close to it. From the first minutes, you can feel how hard and precarious was the situation of the Russian intelligentsia during the Civil War.

Possessed

• Russia, 2014.
• Duration: 240 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,9.

Mysterious, complicated and very interesting story about a young man Nicholas Stavrogin, which is quite confused in life, and in addition also has something to hide.

Any adaptation of literary works do you consider the most successful and advise me to see? Share your tips in the comments. ;)