Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to BuidaBy: Robert Chandler From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn alongside tales by long suppressed figures such as the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov. Whether