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Also Known As Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
Born July 19, 1893 • Georgia
Died April 14, 1930 (aged 36) • Moscow • Russia
Notable Works “Fleyta pozvonochnik” • “Mystery Bouffe” • “Oblako v shtanakh” • “The Bathhouse” • “The Bedbug”
Movement / Style Cubo-Futurism

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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
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Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Russian poet
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879
Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy
Russian writer
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Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov
Russian writer
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Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov
Russian writer
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David Davidovich Burlyuk
Russian poet, painter, critic, and publisher
Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish author
Babel, Isaac
Isaac Babel
Russian author
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Russian author
Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Russian writer
Nikolay Gogol
Nikolay Gogol
Ukrainian-born writer
Lermontov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
Russian author
Bulgakov, c. 1932
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian author
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Valentin Katayev
Soviet writer
Merezhkovsky
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
Russian author
Olesha, Yury Karlovich
Yury Karlovich Olesha
Russian author
Andreyev, Leonid Nikolayevich
Leonid Andreyev
Russian author

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