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I would be happy to read Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Maria in the Complete Works of Isaac Babel, or The Gypsies and Other Narrative Poems.

The Tale of Igor's Campaign is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language.

Editions and translations:
Vladimir Nabokov, The Song of Igor's Campaign: An Epic of the 12th Century (1960)

So, I came here to point out what Terenti already has, that 'The Song of Igor's Campaign', also known in English as 'The Tale of Igor's Campaign', 'The Lay of Igor's Campaign', and 'The Lay of the Host of Igor', and maybe more variants, is not a book by Nabokov, and it seems to be listed as such on the site in error (though a natural one). No one knows who wrote it, so it has no listed author, and he did one of the English translations of it.

Other editions of it are on this site (Slovo o polku Igoreve) and many of them are listed separately, probably due to the lack of author, or listing the translator as author instead. It's about events that happened in 1202 and is considered to be a genuine text from not too long after (same century at least, I think). The original text is in Old Eastern Slavic, which is not an easy read for modern Russians, and, in fact, is arguably at least equally as much, if not more of an ancestor of modern Ukrainian than Russian, though it has importance for both languages (and Belarussian and beyond) as being the earliest known literary text in what developed into their modern languages and also relating to their common culture. The events of the text happened in Kievan Rus in an area which is now three neighbouring regions in the north of the Ukraine.

If you're still up for reading it, one question would be whether reading a different tranlation would be acceptable. I have the original with a different English translation, though I can find Nabokov's version online, which seems itself also to be public domain, because wikipedia link to it (and the original, and other translations, as you can see here - ).

Though also I wonder if this book by Nabokov is more than the translation, perhaps notes and/or related essays, seeing as the original thing is not so long. Though he seems to have published it in a kind of verse style, with short lines, but the online text shows it the same, marking 860 lines, which still can't easily make up much more than 40 or 50 pages.