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Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
Early 20th century writer, playwright and Doctor. "The Master and Margarita " novel
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953)
First Russian author to win Nobel prize in literature. "The VIlliage", "Dry Valley", "Life of Arseniev", short stories "Dark Avenues". Became a Great Writer despite not having much education.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (full name), "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", The story centers on an extramarital affair between Anna and dashing cavalry officer Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky that scandalizes the social circles of Saint Petersburg and forces the young lovers to flee to Italy in a search for happiness, but after they return to Russia, their lives further unravel. Also wrote the "Sevastopol Sketches"
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Novelist, Dramatiscist also spread the awareness of Russian gulag (prison labor camps), The Gulag Archipelago, "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich", sentenced to gulag for 8 years for writing negatively about Stalin.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
Novelist, Essayist, and Journalist, "The House of Dead", "The Insulted and Injured", "Crimes and Punishment", "The Brothers Karamazov", translated to 170 languages.
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
Novelist, short stories, "Father and Sons", "A Sportsman's sketches".
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
Romantic Poetry and novelist, major work "Eugene Onegin", Protagonist who died in a duel with his best friend George Charles for seducing his wife, also an opera by Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky.
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
Short Fiction writer and doctor, dubbed "the greatest short fiction writer in history", famous quote "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress". Wrote "the Seagull", and "Uncle Vanya"
Nikolai Gogol
Ukranian born dramatiscist, novelist, and short stories, "Taras Bulba" novel (1835), play, "marriage" (1842), short story "Diary of a madman", "Portrait", "Carriage", "Tale of Ivan Ivanovich"
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
a Russian-American author. His 1955 novel Lolita depicts Humbert Humbert's obsession with the adolescent Ramsdale resident Dolores Haze, whom Humbert nicknames "Lolita. Humbert becomes Lolita's stepfather by marrying her mother Charlotte, who soon dies. Lolita and Humbert travel the U.S. before Humbert enrolls Lolita at the Beardsley School for Girls. There, Lolita is cast in a play written by Clare Quilty, and devises a plan of escape. In Nabokov's highly meta-fictional novel Pale Fire, a 999-line poem of the same name by John Shade is the subject of a lengthy commentary by the scholar Charles Kinbote. However, Kinbote's notes are more concerned with himself than with the poem, revealing that he thinks of himself as King Charles, the exiled monarch of the land of Zembla. Nabokov's other books include the novels Ada, or Ardor, which recounts an incestuous relationship; Invitation to a Beheading, about the condemned prisoner Cincinnatus, and The Defense, a Russian-language novel about the chess player Aleksandr Luzhin. In his memoir Speak, Memory, Nabokov wrote about his wife Vera and his scientific interest in butterflies.
