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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was a writer and biochemist of Russian origin, American nationalized, known as a prolific author of science fiction, history and scientif...

Mikhail Bulgakov

Russian novelist and playwright, known by "The Master and Margarita.".

Anton Pavlovich Chejov

He was a Russian storyteller, playwright and doctor. In the literary currents of realism and naturalism, he was a master of short story, and is consid...

Fiodor Mijaïlovich Dostoevskiï

Fiodor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski was one of the leading writers of Tsarist Russia, whose literature explores human psychology in the complex political, ...

Nikolaj Vasilevic Gogol

Russian writer, also known as a playwright, novelist and short story writer. His best known work is probably dead Souls, considered by many as the fir...

Vasili Grossman

Born within an emancipated Jewish family. His father had social-democratic convictions and joined the Mensheviks. The young Vasily Grossman idealistic...

Andrei Kurkov

Andrei Yuyevich Kurkov was born on April 23 in Leningrad. Son of a test pilot and a doctor, he began writing at age seven when two of his three hamste...

Vladimir Nabokov

He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but became internationally famous as a teacher of the novel with his work written in English, especially...

Borís Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet and novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russian writer and dissident, Nobel winner, known by "Gulag Archipelago.".

Lev Tolstói

Count Lev Nikoláievich Tolstói (León Tolstói), a Russian novelist, is one of the most important writers of world literature. His works "War and Peace"...

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Russian novelist, known as "Parents and Children," exploring nihilism and social change.