Literary Texts:   

Each author's name links to his entry in the Encylopedia Britannica Online (which doesn't include Panaeva!)

Alexander Pushkin, The Queen of Spades and Other Stories (early 1830s)
Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol  (1834-1842)
Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time (1840)  
*Avodtya Panaeva, "The Young Lady of the Steppes" (1855)
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (1862)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)
Anton Chekhov: Short Stories (mostly 1890s)
*Ivan Bunin, "Sunstroke" (1925)