Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story, Oblomov, and The Precipice. He also served in many official capacities, including the position of cen
Portrait by Ivan Kramskoi, 1874
Plaque on the house in 20 Goncharova street in Ulyanovsk, where Goncharov was born in 1812
Portrait of Goncharov by Kirill Gorbunov, 1847
Title page of the 1915 English translation of Oblomov
Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russia
Nekrasov in 1870
Portrait of Nikolai Nekrasov by Nikolai Ge, 1872.
Every summer Nekrasov would go hunting to his brother's estate of Karabikha near Yaroslavl (now a memorial museum).
Nekrasov and Panayev visiting sick Belinsky. By A.Naumov