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