title: The Russian idea
author: Nikolai Berdiaev
description: "As a philosophy of history it shows remarkable insight into the social and religious currents which determined Russia's destiny..."-Manchester Guardian<br /><br />?As a philosophy of history it shows remarkable insight into the social and religious currents which determined Russia's destiny...?-Manchester Guardian
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  # Oblomov
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Ivan Goncharev
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Part 1
  
  
    
  Chapter 1
  
  
    
  Chapter 2
  
  
    
  Chapter 3
  
  
    
  Chapter 4
  
  
    
  Chapter 5
  
  
  Part 2
  
  
    
  Chapter 1
  
  
    
  Chapter 2
  
  
    
  Chapter 3
  
  
  Part 3
  
  
    
  Chapter 1
  
  
    
  Chapter 2
  
  
    
  Chapter 3
  
  
    
  Chapter 4
  
  
  Part 4
  
  
    
  Chapter 1
  
  
    
  Chapter 2
  
  
    
  Chapter 3
  
  
    
  Chapter 4
  
  
    
  Chapter 5
  
  
    
  Chapter 6
  
  
  ##### Translated from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth
  
  
  ## Part 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter 1
  
  
  
  
  
    
  ONE morning, in a flat in one of the great buildings in Gorokhovaia
  
  
  Street, the population of which was sufficient to constitute that of a
  
  
  provincial town, there was lying in bed a gentleman named Ilya Ilyitch
  
  
  Oblomov. He was a fellow of a little over thirty, of medium height,
  
  
  and of pleasant exterior. Unfortunately, in his dark-grey eyes there
  
  
  was an absence of any definite idea, and in his other features a total
  
  
  lack of conce