Monday Motivation
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina
Dead Souls Daily One masterpiece of Russian literature,
delivered daily.
Dead Souls Daily is the antidote to toxic positivity. One line a day from Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and the rest, none of whom ever told anyone to cheer up.
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The original Russian, one tap away.
Tap the quote and the translation gives way to the words the author actually wrote. Every quote in the collection has its Russian original, and its source down to the part and chapter, or the story by name. Both come with Unlock the Archive. The daily quote, and every quote you save, stay free forever.
Every morning, the wellness internet hands you a sunrise and tells you to seize the day. We hand you one sentence from a Russian who knew better.
Your daily quote, always visible.
Misery, formatted for Stories.
Turn any passage into a high-resolution card sized for Instagram. If a single sentence from a long-dead Russian ruins your morning, the only decent thing to do is make sure it ruins someone else's too.
Keep the ones that wound you.
Tap the gold star to file any quote into your private collection, as many as your disposition requires, at no cost. Unlock the Archive, once for life or by the year, and you get every quote ever published, each with its Russian original and the part and chapter it came from, plus your choice of what the widget shows.
“We drink from the cup of being with our eyes closed...”
Mikhail Lermontov · The Cup of Life
Two centuries of Russian writers
- Alexander Pushkin1799 – 1837
- Fyodor Tyutchev1803 – 1873
- Nikolai Gogol1809 – 1852
- Mikhail Lermontov1814 – 1841
- Ivan Turgenev1818 – 1883
- Fyodor Dostoevsky1821 – 1881
- Leo Tolstoy1828 – 1910
- Anton Chekhov1860 – 1904
- Ivan Bunin1870 – 1953
- Alexander Blok1880 – 1921
- Anna Akhmatova1889 – 1966
- Boris Pasternak1890 – 1960
- Marina Tsvetaeva1892 – 1941
- Joseph Brodsky1940 – 1996
Not sure where to start with any of them? The Journal has a guide to where to begin with Dostoevsky, a note on what Dead Souls actually means, and a case for taking your Wellness Wednesday from Chekhov.
Don’t let this app fool you. It’s a treasure trove of gorgeous Russian prose covering the whole spectrum of human emotion. As the title suggests, it’s simple, beautiful, and functional. Download now!!
savhedrick · App Store · 29 July
A must for Russian literature fans! It’s such a witty and unique idea. Also nice that they don’t charge you like most apps these days. I love my daily dose of misery, thank you.
Dar_Al · App Store · 18 May
A perfect five. Early, but unanimous.
Your first sorrow is waiting.
Free to download, with no ads and no account. One quote every morning, delivered with the punctuality of the grave, and nobody telling you to manifest your abundance.