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Also Known As Afanasy Afanasyevich Shenshin • Afanasy Afanasyevich Foeth
Born December 5, 1820 • Russia
Died December 3, 1892 (aged 71) • Moscow • Russia

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Fet, portrait by Ilya Repin
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Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
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Velimir Vladimirovich Khlebnikov
Russian poet
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Antiokh Dmitriyevich Kantemir
Russian poet
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Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky
Russian writer
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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet
Thomas Gwynn Jones, oil painting by Evan Walters, 1945; in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
T. Gwynn Jones
Welsh poet
Hviezdoslav
Hviezdoslav
Slovak poet
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author
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Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam
Russian poet
Lermontov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Russian author
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova
Russian poet
Khomyakov, engraving by Ivan Pozhalostin, 1879
Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov
Russian poet and theologian
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian poet
Blok
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
Russian poet and dramatist
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Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin
Russian writer and composer
Yesenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich
Sergey Aleksandrovich Yesenin
Russian poet

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