A Country Doctor's Notebook on Operative Obstetrics: “"There it was—Döderlein's Operative Obstetrics." / "In a pool of light on the desk in my study lay Döderlein open at the page headed 'Dangers of Version'." — the doctor's real reference textbook, consulted repeatedly.”
A Country Doctor's Notebook on The Deerslayer: “...for many a long evening I paced up and down the length of my study, longing for newspapers with the same hunger that in childhood I had longed for Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer.”
A Country Doctor's Notebook on War and Peace: “It reminds me of a passage in War and Peace in which Petya Rostov experiences the same phenomenon when half asleep.”
A Country Doctor's Notebook on The Penal Colony of Sakhalin: “"I recalled a book in a yellow binding entitled The Penal Colony of Sakhalin, which contained photographs of various criminal types." — medium confidence, likely this edition's translated title for Chekhov's Sakhalin Island.”
The Master and Margarita on Faust: “'...who are you, then?' 'I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.' (epigraph, attributed to Goethe, Faust)”
The Master and Margarita on Don Quixote: “a sweet awe creeps into one's heart at the thought that in this house there is now ripening the future author of a Don Quixote or a Faust, or, devil take me, a Dead Souls!”
The Master and Margarita on The Inspector General: “You can imagine the noise that will arise when one of them, for starters, offers the reading public The Inspector General or, if worse comes to worst, Evgeny Onegin.”