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Well, below is our attempt at this!. 1. Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) Orest Kiprensky. Portrait of Alexander Pushkin, 1827. Tretyakov Gallery. We, Russians, used to say that Pushkin is our ...
- Silver Age
The Silver Age of Russian poetry is an artistic period that...
- Friends
Throughout the 82 years of his life, Leo Tolstoy met and...
- 20th Century
After emigrating, Tsvetaeva returned to the USSR in 1939....
- Russia Beyond
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) lived for just 37...
- The Captain's Daughter
There, he falls in love with the daughter of the commandant...
- Silver Age
Nov 25, 2014 · Francine Prose is the author of 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, among them the novel “Blue Angel,” a National Book Award nominee, and the guide “Reading Like a Writer,” a New York ...
- Boris Akunin
- Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov
- Oleg Zaionchkovsky
- Yelena Shvarts
- German Sadulaev
- Andrei Astvatsaturov
- Chingiz Aimatov
- Vera Polozkova
- Alexander Genis
- Alexander Vvedensky
Boris Akunin / TASS / Sergei Belyakov We're putting this great author on the honorable 112th place not because we like him less than the others, but because he admits that he's not a writer but a belletrist. His real name is Grigory Chkhartishvili and he's the ultra-popular Russian detective writer. Several of his novels, set mostly in the late 19t...
Tikhon Shevkunov / Alexander Nikolayev / TASS Tikhon Shevkunov is also not a professional writer. He is the abbot of the small but very active Sretensky Monastery in Moscow, and according to media reports, he's Vladimir Putin’s personal confessor. His book, “Unholy Holies,” tells miraculous and true stories about the lives of contemporary Orthodox ...
Oleg Zaionchkovsky / RIA Novosti / Vladimir Fedorenko Oleg Zaionchkovsky takes the third-to-last position for his novel, “Happiness is Possible,” which is an evocative and amusing tribute to Moscow. It has become a cliché to describe one city or another as the main character in a novel, but Zaionchkovsky’s Moscow is alive and all-embracing. The cha...
Yelena Shvarts / PhotoXpress Every list of Russian authors must include censored ones! Before the 1990s, the poetry of Yelena Shvarts was published in samizdat, the underground self-published texts of the Soviet era. Her first official collection of poetry came out in New York in 1985. Overall, her poetry mainly deals with mankind’s and the poet's ...
German Sadulaev / PhotoXpress What would you think if someone tells you, "I am Chechen"? Sadulaev in fact became famous for a book with this title. He was born in the Chechen village of Shali and moved to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1989 to study law. He still lives in St. Petersburg, but his personal connections with Chechnya make it impossi...
Andrei Astvatsaturov / Evgenya Novozhenina/RIA Novosti Rarely translated and complicated for pronunciation, Andrei Astvatsaturov is first of all an academic at St. Petersburg University, but he is also renowned for autobiographical fiction that depicts his life and creative development through numerous flashbacks to his childhood. He found fame as ...
Chingiz Aitmatov / Grigory Sysoyev / TASS Russia's "steppenwolf," Chingiz Aitmatov, is from rural Kyrgyzstan, and he brought to Russian literature the immensity of the steppes where a human is only a small part of nature. One of his main novels, “The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years,” is the clearest expression of his vision and the importance o...
Vera Polozkova / TASS Since she's an idol of romantic Russian girls, Vera Polozkova is in 105th place. She became popular thanks to the Internet, where she started publishing poems on Live Journal with the handle, Vero4ka. Her poems almost always consist of a dialogue between the protagonist and her beloved, often on the theme of parting or misunde...
Alexander Genis / TASS Genis is the last of the Mohicans of Soviet émigrés who moved to the U.S. in 1977. Shortly after arriving in New York, Genis befriended fellow émigrés Joseph Brodsky and Sergei Dovlatov. “My choice of America was kind of random,” Genis told RBTH in 2012. “I didn’t know anything about the country except Hemingway and Faulkner....
Alexander Vvedensky / Archive photo “Pussy Riot are the disciples and heirs of Vvedensky,” said Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova at her trial in August 2012. Like the Russian poet Alexander Vvedensky, who died in a prison train, the punk band Pussy Riot pass judgement on the state, even as they are sentenced to prison: “The dissidents and the po...
Mar 4, 2016 · 5. Open to Changes. Being open to external edits and suggestions is key for exceptional writers because it enables them to improve their writing, even though it might damage their ego in the ...
Aug 31, 2022 · The liberals of the 1860s thought that he was writing a dangerous revolutionary tract and painting the younger generation much too sympathetically. That’s part of the remit of realist writing—of which this is such a great example—that the writer himself is invisible. You’re trying to get reality itself onto a page.
1. Write Every Day. Writing is a lot like exercising. It’s better to do it regularly than to try to cram it all in at once. Good writers write consistently every day; great artists work the same way. One of the biggest challenges a writer faces is avoiding getting stuck in a rut.
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