See the link below for one person's take on the best Russian short stories. I put a picture of Gogol on here to remind the reader that if you're talking best short stories, no way you can leave out "The Overcoat" ("Шинель").
Then again, Rosamund Bartlett leaves out Bunin and Nabokov as well, Turgenev, plenty of others. But she, after all, limits herself to five stories, and what she has to say about the stories she chooses is worth reading. I can pretty much do without Leskov altogether, but she has picked two of my all time favorite stories: Chekhov's "Gusev," and Babel's "The Sin of Jesus."
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/rosamund-bartlett-on-russian-short-stories/
Unrelated but I've been reading a book by Nabokov.
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