The conversation between human and AI assistant.
[|Human|] Which Russian author to read first?
[|AI|] I'd recommend something likeÂ Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) or Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)Â for someone starting out with Russian novels. Branch out from there to something like Master and Margarita (Bulgakov) or Fathers and Children (Turgenev) afterward.
[|Human|] 
Which Russian author to read first?