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  2. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Wikipedia

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    Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837 when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and ...

  3. List of Russian-language novelists - Wikipedia

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    B Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration Isaak Babel (1894–1940) Red Cavalry The Odessa Tales Red Cavalry poster, 1919 Red Cavalry poster, 1920 Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009) The Foothold Forever Nineteen South of the Main Offensive Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004) A Week Like Any Other Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950) The Malachite Box Commemorative coin featuring Bazhov Bazhov ...

  4. Russian literature - Wikipedia

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    1st page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book.. Scholars typically use the term Old Russian literature, in addition to the terms medieval Russian literature and early modern Russian literature, [6] or pre-Petrian literature, [7] to refer to Russian literature until the reforms of Peter the Great, tying literary development to historical periodization.

  5. List of Russian-language writers - Wikipedia

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    Semyon Babayevsky (1909–2000), novelist and short story writer, Golden Star Chavalier Isaak Babel (1894–1940), short story writer, The Odessa Tales, Red Cavalry Eduard Bagritsky (1895–1934), constructivist poet, February Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), novelist and magazine editor, Forever Nineteen Ivan Bakhtin (1756–1818), poet, satirist and politician Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975 ...

  6. Alexander Pushkin - Wikipedia

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    He introduced Russia to all the European literary genres as well as a great number of West European writers. He brought natural speech and foreign influences to create modern poetic Russian. Though his life was brief, he left examples of nearly every literary genre of his day: lyric poetry, narrative poetry, the novel, the short story, the ...

  7. Russian speculative fiction - Wikipedia

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    Some authors, namely Kamsha, Dyachenkos and Frei, were born in Ukraine and moved to Russia at some point. Most Ukrainian and Belarusian SF&F authors write in Russian, which gives them access to a broad Russophone audience of the post-Soviet countries, and usually publish their books via Russian publishers such as Eksmo, Azbuka , and AST.

  8. Nikolai Gogol - Wikipedia

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    The novel Taras Bulba (1835), the play Marriage (1842), and the short stories "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait", and "The Carriage" are also among his best-known works. Many writers and critics have recognized Gogol's deep influence on Russian, Ukrainian and world literature.

  9. Crime and Punishment - Wikipedia

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    Crime and Punishment [a] is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. [1] It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia.