Russian
Братья Карамазовы
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A murder, a trial, and the largest questions a person can ask: the most formidable case against God ever put in a character’s mouth.
Editions
Forthcoming
The app
Learn Russian by reading Dostoevsky. The original beside a clear translation, read aloud, with every word glossed.
The opening
Tap a line to unfold its translation. In the app, every word unfolds too.
The book
Dostoevsky’s last novel is one of the few books that seem to hold everything: a parricide, a trial, and behind them the largest questions a person can ask. Three brothers and their grotesque father play out the warring faculties of a single soul, and Ivan’s ‘Grand Inquisitor’ is still the most formidable case against God ever set in a character’s mouth, answered only by the book that surrounds it. To read it through is to come out larger than you went in.
In the app
The original and the translation, side by side.
The author’s words align line by line with a clear English translation: two columns on iPad, a paired reading flow on iPhone.
Every line, read aloud.
Hear how the language actually sounds: its weight, its rhythm, not just how it looks on the page.
Notes for the line you’re on.
Tap any line for the grammar, the words, and the context behind it, written by us, for this text. An editor at your elbow.
Read aloud, and hear how you did.
Read a line yourself and the edition scores it on your phone: the whole line first, then sound by sound. Your voice never leaves the device.
The particulars
- The text
- Братья Карамазовы, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Translation
- Public-domain Russian (Dostoevsky, d. 1881). Translation © 2026 1732 Studios.
- Method
- The translations are our own, drafted with machine assistance and verified line by line. How the editions are made.
- The app
- The first chapter is free: the complete app, every feature. One unlock covers the rest, yours forever, $4.99. No subscription, no ads.
- Privacy
- Speech analysis runs on device. Your reading and your voice never leave your phone.