Nikolai Gogol
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
Cover of the first edition of The Government Inspector (1836)
Commemorative plaque on his house in Rome
One of several portraits of Gogol by Fyodor Moller (1840)
Gogol's grave at the Novodevichy Cemetery, as it looked in 1952–2009
Alexander Pushkin
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian liter
Portrait [ru] by Orest Kiprensky, 1827
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Coat of arms of the Pushkin family
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Pushkin in his youth, by Sergey Chirikov [ru]
Arina Rodionovna Yakovleva (1758 - August 12, 1828) at ages 70, the serf of Hannibal family and nanny of Alexander Pushkin.