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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Pushkin is usually credited with developing Russian literature. He is seen as having originated the highly nuanced level of language which characterizes Russian literature after him, and he is also credited with substantially augmenting the Russian lexicon. Whenever he found gaps in the Russian vocabulary, he devised calques. His rich ...
It remains one of the most influential and widely read novels in Russian literature, [207] and has been sometimes described as Dostoevsky's magnum opus. [ 208 ] Crime and Punishment follows the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov , an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who plans to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker ...
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [a] (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ k ɒ f /; [3] Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов [b], IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860 [c] – 15 July 1904 [d]) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem ...
Daguerreotype of Gogol taken in 1845 by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky (1819–1898). Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol [b] (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 [a] – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
It became the most-read work of Soviet historical fiction, [citation needed] and it earned him the 1941 State Stalin Prize. It deals with the experiences of the Cossacks before and during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Writers Mikhail Sholokhov (in the drivers seat) and Alexander Fadeyev (in the seat of the turret gunner). Eastern Front ...