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The father of modern Russian literature
Aleksandr Pushkin, oil on canvas by Vasily Tropinin, 1827; in the National Pushkin...
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Nikolay Gogol
Ukrainian-born humorist, novelist, and dramatist Nikolay Gogol, 19th-century photographic...
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One of the greatest Russian writers
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, shown in 1876, was introduced to a new generation of readers...
From Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family and Friends translated by Ethel Colburn Mayne, 1914
Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest novelists....
The Bettmann Archive
Ivan Turgenev
Russian writer Ivan Turgenev.
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Anton Chekhov
Russian author Anton Chekhov, 1902.
David Magarshack
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova.
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