1.
Dostoyevsky
He is the founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism and he describes his characters in a psychological perspective. He surprised me with his wonderful books like Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Gambler, The Gambler and many others.
152 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz - 1 comment
Comments:
Crime and Punishment is a great read by a great author.
Added 11 years ago by guest, 1 point
2.
Chekhov
He considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. We know him for the plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard and many others.
140 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz - 1 comment
Comments:
wrote simply insurpassable short stories
(ahead of Maupassant)
Added 13 years ago by guest, 1 point
3.
Tolstoy
He wrote about life and about reality of the society from his time and he is regarded as among the greatest of novelists. He is known for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina, for his The Kreutzer Sonata.
132 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
4.
Nabokov
100 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
5.
Gogol
This is my favorite russian writer for his realistic characters from his books. Who doesn't hear about Dead Souls, his novel Taras Bulba, the play The Inspector-General, the short story The Overcoat and many other stories.
82 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
6.
Bulgakov
81 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
7.
Pushkin
One of the greatest russian poet, he wrote many romantic poems who celebrate love, dramatic facts and world's satire. I love his masterpieces like poem The Bronze Horseman and the drama The Stone Guest, the inspired poem Ruslan and Lyudmila and his opera,Eugene Onegin.
71 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
8.
Turgenev
56 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
9.
Solzhenitsyn
43 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
10.
Lermontov
36 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
11.
Ivan Bunin
25 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
12.
Platonov
24 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
13.
Yesenin
24 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
14.
Zamyatin
18 points - added 10 years ago by guest -
15.
Akhmatova
She is one of the most noted female Russian poets.
13 points - added 12 years ago by guest -
16.
Andreyev
12 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
17.
Gorky
11 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
18.
Tsvetayeva
10 points - added 6 years ago by guest -
19.
Pasternak
6 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
20.
Krylov
5 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
21.
Brusov
4 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
22.
Aksyonov
3 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
23.
Sholokhov
3 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
24.
Merezhkovsky
3 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
25.
Ilf and Petrov
3 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
26.
Galkovsky
2 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
27.
Alexander Belyayev
1 point - added 13 years ago by guest -
28.
Rodionov
1 point - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
29.
Zoshchenko
0 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
30.
Vodennikov
0 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
31.
Shishkin
-4 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
32.
Sorokin
-5 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
33.
Semenova
-6 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
34.
Prigov
-17 points - added 14 years ago by nasucuroz -
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